AP World History: Modern

Silk Road trade routes, Mongol conquests, Pax Mongolica, cultural exchange, and the Black Death

Maritime trade networks, monsoon winds, diasporic communities, and cross-cultural exchange

Gunpowder empires, devshirme system, Safavid Shi'ism, Mughal religious tolerance, and decline

Ming and Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and the expansion of the Russian Empire

European exploration motives, Columbian Exchange, disease impact, and maritime technology

Spanish colonialism, Atlantic slave trade, encomienda, plantation system, and mercantilism

Enlightenment ideas, American Revolution, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and Latin American independence

Industrialization origins, factory system, urbanization, social effects, and global spread

New Imperialism, Scramble for Africa, Indian colonial resistance, nationalism, and state-building

Abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, global migration patterns, and social reform movements

WWI causes and effects, interwar period, rise of totalitarianism, WWII, and the Holocaust

Genocide, ethnic cleansing, resistance movements, and the development of international human rights norms

Superpower rivalry, proxy wars, decolonization in Africa and Asia, and the Non-Aligned Movement

Nation-building challenges, ethnic conflict, economic development, and Cold War influence on new nations

Economic globalization, international organizations, technology revolution, and cultural exchange

Climate change, terrorism, pandemic disease, human rights, and global inequality