AP Courses

1 Credit
Available to Grades 10-12

AP World History is a full-year course designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of historical trends in human civilizations. Students will learn how to support theories with historical evidence, evaluate primary evidence/documents, and make comprehensive evaluations of historical frameworks.

AP World History enriches the educational experience for Christian school students and sparks a passion for learning. This course has been built around the practices published in the AP World History Course and Exam Description.

Per counselor approval, students can take AP World History instead of World History.

Topics Discussed:

• Early Development: Interaction between humans and the environment
  
  • Demography and disease
  • Migration
  • Patterns of settlement
  • Technology
• Social: Development and transformation of social structures
  
  • Gender roles and relations
  • Family and kinship
  • Racial and ethnic constructions
  • Social and economic classes
• Political: State-building, expansion, and conflict
  
  • Political structures and forms of governance
  • Empires
  • Nations and nationalism
  • Revolts and revolutions
  • Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations
• Economic: Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
  
  • Agricultural and pastoral production
  • Trade and commerce
  • Labor systems
  • Industrialization
  • Capitalism and socialism
• Cultural: Development and interaction of cultures
  
  • Religions
  • Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies
  • Science and technology
  • The arts and architecture
    

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