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To the Student How to Get the Most from This Program Working with Evidence Historical Thinking Skills: An AP® Primer Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History PART ONE First Things First: Beginnings in History, to 600 b.c.e. 1. First Peoples; First Farmers: Most of History in a Single Chapter, to 4000 b.c.e. 2. First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 b.c.e.-500 b.c.e. PART TWO Second-Wave Civilizations in World History, 600 b.c.e.-600 c.e. 3. State and Empire in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.-500 c.e. 4. Culture and Religion in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.-500 c.e. 5. Society and Inequality in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.-500 c.e. 6. Commonalities and Variations: Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania, 500 b.c.e.-1200 c.e. PART THREE An Age of Accelerating Connections, 600-1450 7. Commerce and Culture, 500-1500 8. China and the World: East Asian Connections, 500-1300 9. The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections, 600-1500 10. The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction, Expansion, and Division, 500-1300 11. Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment, 1200-1500 12. The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century PART FOUR The Early Modern World, 1450-1750 13. Political Transformations: Empires and Encounters, 1450-1750 14. Economic Transformations: Commerce and Consequence, 1450-1750 15. Cultural Transformations: Religion and Science, 1450-1750 PART FIVE The European Moment in World History, 1750-1900 16. Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes, 1750-1914 17. Revolutions of Industrialization, 1750-1914 18. Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania, 1750-1950 19. Empires in Collision: Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, 1800-1914 PART SIX The Most Recent Century, 1900-2015 20. Collapse at the Center: World War, Depression, and the Rebalancing of Global Power, 1914-1970s 21. Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict: The Rise and Fall of World Communism, 1917-present 22. The End of Empire: The Global South on the Global Stage, 1914-present 23. Capitalism and Culture: The Acceleration of Globalization, since 1945 Notes Acknowledgments Index
