Barron's Essential 5
INTRODUCTION
How to Use This Book
The Advanced Placement Examination in World History: An Overview
Historical Thinking Skills
Multiple-Choice Question Strategies
Free-Response (Essay) Questions: General Tips
Document-Based Question Strategies
Continuity and Change-Over-Time Essay Question Strategies
Comparative Essay Question Strategies
UNIT ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS (8000 B.C.E. ~ 600 B.C.E.)
Unit Overview
1 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
2 The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies
3 The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban Societies
Unit One: Review Questions
UNIT TWO: ORGANIZATION AND REORGANIZATION OF HUMAN SOCIETIES (600 B.C.E. ~ 600 C.E.)
Unit Overview
4 The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions
5 The Development of States and Empires
6 Emerging Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange
Unit Two: Review Questions
UNIT THREE: REGIONAL AND TRANSREGIONAL INTERACTIONS (600~ 1450)
Unit Overview
7 Europe During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
8 Islam in the Middle East and Africa
9 China, Japan, and East Asia
10 South and Southeast Asia
11 The Mongol Empires
12 Sub-Saharan Africa
13 The Americas
Unit Three: Review Questions
UNIT FOUR: GLOBAL INTERACTIONS (1450~ 1750)
Unit Overview
14 Europe: Reformation, Absolutism, and Enlightenment
15 The Western Campaign of Exploration and Colonization
16 Islamic Empires in the Middle East and North Africa
17 China, Japan, and East Asia
18 South and Southeast Asia
19 Sub-Saharan Africa
20 The Americas as New World
Unit Four: Review Questions
UNIT FIVE: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND GLOBAL INTEGRATION (1750~ 1900)
Unit Overview
21 The Europeans at Home: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform
22 Industrialization and Worldwide Economic Trends
23 The Europeans Abroad: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Foreign Policy
24 The Middle East
25 China and Japan
26 India and Southeast Asia
27 Sub-Saharan Africa
28 Revolution and Consolidation in North and South America
Unit Five: Review Questions
UNIT SIX: ACCELERATING GLOBAL CHANGE AND REALIGNMENTS (1900 to Present)
Unit Overview
29 World War I
30 The Twenty Years' Crisis: The World During the Interwar Period
31 World War II and the Holocaust
32 The Cold War
33 Divergent Forms of Development in the Postwar World, 1945~ 1991
34 Social Developments, Cultural Changes, and Intellectual Trends
35 Integration or Fragmentation's Globalism in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Unit Six: Review Questions
MODEL AP WORLD HISTORY TESTS
Model Test 1
Model Test 2
Appendix: Map of Selected World Regions
Index