Syllabus for AP World History, Collierville High School
Chapters from World Civilizations
Summer Work Review and Writing Seminar
Week One:
Class Requirements, Essay Formats, Discussion Requirements, Summer Reading
Evaluation, Geography - Locations and Topography, Map Skills, Graph Analysis,
Document Analysis
Unit 1: Foundations, 8000 BCE to 600 CE, Origins, Migrations, and Early Connections
Week Two: Chapter 1
The Rise of Agriculture and Agricultural Civilizations
Week Three: Chapter 2
Classical China and the World
Week Four: Chapter 3
India and the Wider World
Week Five: Chapter 4
Greece and Rome and the World
Week Six: Chapter 5
The Decline of Empires (Expansion, Nomads)
Unit 2: 600 to 1450, More Connections, Urbanization, and Imperial Expansions
Week Seven: Chapters 6, 7 and 8
Early Islam and the World and the spread of Islamic Civilization to Asia and
Africa
Week Eight: Chapter 9
Byzantine Empire and Orthodox Christianity in Europe, Eastern Europe and the
World
Week Nine: Chapter 10
Medieval Europe and the World
Week Ten: Chapter 11
The Americas and the World, Mesoamerica, Aztecs and Incas
Week Eleven: Chapters 12 and 13
China’s World Role with Tang and Song dynasties
The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
Week Twelve: Chapter 14
The Mongols
Week Thirteen: Chapters 15 and 17
The Rise and Transformation of the West
Unit 3: 1450 to 1750, Encounters and Change
Week Fourteen: Chapter 16
Maritime Power and Colonial Expansion
Week Fifteen: Chapter 18
The Rise of Russia
Week Sixteen: Chapter 19 and 20
Latin American Civilization and the World Context
Slave Labor Systems in the Atlantic World
Week Seventeen: Chapters 21 and 22
Expansion of Global Economy and Absolutism: Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Bourbons,
Tokugawa, Romanov, Ming
Week Eighteen: Review of Units 1, 2, and 3
Mid-term exam.
Unit 4: 1750 to 1914, Industrialization, Modernization, and Reactions
Week Nineteen: Chapter 23
The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, Revolution
Week Twenty: Chapter 24
Imperialism and Industrialization
Week Twenty-one: Chapter 25
The Consolidation of Latin America
Week Twenty-two: Chapter 26
Decline of Empires: Ottoman, Islamic, Qing
Week Twenty-three: Chapter 27
Russian Revolution and Japanese Transformation
Unit 5: 1914 to Present, Permanent Globalization and Reactions
Week Twenty-four: Chapter 28
World War One, Total War, and Global Upheaval
Week Twenty-five: Chapter 29 and 30
Rise of Consumerism and Internationalization of Culture, the Great Depression
Week Twenty-six: Chapter 31
World War Two and Nationalism and Decolonization
Week Twenty-seven: Chapter 32
The Cold War and the World
Week Twenty-eight: Chapters 33, 34, 35
De-Colonization and Revolution and Independence
Week Twenty-nine: Chapter 36
1990’s until Last Night, 21st Century, Global Warming and other Perils,
A World of Religious and Ethnic Conflicts
Weeks Thirty to Thirty-two, until the AP Exam, Review
After the AP Exam, Course Evaluation - TBA