AP WORLD HISTORY
SUMMER WORK— 2016/17 INSTRUCTIONS
COURSE MATERIAL
TEXTBOOK
The Earth and It’s Peoples: A Global History, 6th Edition
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UNIT 1: THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES, TO 500 BCE
CHAPTER 1—Nature, Humanity, and History, to 3500 BCE
CHAPTER 2—The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 BCE
CHAPTER 3—The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000-500 BCE
CHAPTER 4—New Civilizations Outside the West Asian Core Area, 2300 BCE – 350 CE
UNIT 2: THE FOUNDATION OF NEW CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, 1000 BCE-400 CE
CHAPTER 5—Greece and Iran, 1000-30 BCE
CHAPTER 6—An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 BCE –330 CE
CHAPTER 7—India and Southeast Asia, 1500 BCE –1025 CE
CHAPTER 8—Peoples and Civilizations of Americas, from 1200 BCE
UNIT 3: GROWTH AND INTERACTION OF CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, 300 BCE-1200 CE
CHAPTER 9—Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 BCE – 1100 CE
CHAPTER 10—The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200–1200
CHAPTER 11—Christian Societies Emerge, 600–1200
CHAPTER 12—Inner and East Asia, 400-1200
UNIT 4: INTERREGIONAL PATTERNS OF CULTURE AND CONTACT, 1200-1550
CHAPTER 13—Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200–1500
CHAPTER 14—The Latin West, 1200-1500
CHAPTER 15—Southern Empires, Southern Seas, 1200-1500
CHAPTER 16—The Maritime Revolution, to 1500
UNIT 5: THE GLOBE ENCOMPASSED, 1500-1750
CHAPTER 17—Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750
CHAPTER 18—The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530–1770
CHAPTER 19—The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550–1800
CHAPTER 20—Between Europe and China, 1500–1750
CHAPTER 21—East Asia in Global Perspective
UNIT 6: REVOLUTIONS RESHAPE THE WORLD, 17500-1870
CHAPTER 22—The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760–1851
CHAPTER 23—Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750–1850
CHAPTER 24—Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1870
CHAPTER 25—Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800–1890
UNIT 7: GLOBAL DIVERSITY AND DOMINANCE, 1750-1945
CHAPTER 26— Varieties of Imperialism in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, 1750-1914
CHAPTER 27—The New Power Balance, 1850–1900
CHAPTER 28—The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929
CHAPTER 29—Revolutions in Living, 1900-1950
CHAPTER 30—The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929–1949
UNIT 8: PERILS AND PROMISES OF A GLOBAL COMMUNITY, 1945 to the PRESENT
CHAPTER 31—The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945–1975
CHAPTER 32—End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration, 1975–2000
CHAPTER 33—New Challenges in a New Millennium
