World History - AP 10th Grade
​The Earth and Its Peoples

Teacher:    M. Cisneros
Room:         A-210 
Course:      World History
Text:           World History: The Earth and Its Peoples

Advanced Placement World History develops an understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts including interactions over time. This non-traditional approach looks at the common threads of humanity—trade, religion, politics, society, and technology—and investigates how each have changed and continued over time. The course traces the human experience from the emergence of Neolithic cultures to the 21st Century, C.E., emphasizing the historical thinking skills, writing skills, and content knowledge characteristic of a college-level world history course. Students will devote considerable time to the critical evaluation of primary and secondary sources, as they write essays, engage in class discussions, and participate in Socratic seminars.


After a concentrated study of the foundations of world history, the course focuses primarily on the past thousand years of world history. AP World History offers a balanced coverage of Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. There are five over-arching themes that receive approximately equal coverage:

  1. Interaction between humans and the environment (demography and disease, migration, patterns of settlement, technology);
  2. Development and interaction of cultures (religions, belief systems, philosophies and ideologies, science and technology, the arts and architecture);
  3. State-building, expansion, and conflict (political structures and forms of governance, empires, nations and nationalism, revolts and revolution, regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations);
  4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems (agricultural and pastoral production, trade and commerce, labor systems, industrialization, capitalism and socialism); 
  5. Development and transformation of social structures (gender roles and relations, family and kinship, racial and ethnic constructions);

World Population History (1 C.E. - 2050 C.E.)
Watch human population grow from 1 CE to present and see projected growth in under six minutes. One dot = 1 million people.

World History: The Earth and Its Peoples
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Book Chapters (Powerpoints)

  1. From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations 
  2. New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
  3. The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000–500 B.C.E. 
  4. Greece and Iran, 1000–30 B.C.E.
  5. An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.–600 C.E. 
  6. India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.–600 C.E.
  7. Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.–600 C.E.
  8. The Rise of Islam, 600–1200
  9. Christian Europe Emerges, 600–1200
  10. Inner and East Asia, 600–1200
  11. Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 600–1500
  12. Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200–1500
  13. Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200–1500
  14. The Latin West, 1200–1500
  15. The Maritime Revolution, to 1550
  16. Transformations in Europe, 1500–1750
  17. The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530–1770
  18. The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550–1800
  19. Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500–1750
  20. Northern Eurasia, 1500–1800
  21. Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750–1850
  22. The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760–1851
  23. Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800–1890
  24. Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750–1870
  25. Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1870
  26. The New Power Balance, 1850–1900
  27. The New Imperialism, 1869–1914
  28. The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900–1929
  29. The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929–1949
  30. Striving for Independence: Africa, India, and Latin America, 1900–1949
  31. The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945–1975
  32. Crisis, Realignment, and the Dawn of the Post–Cold War World, 1975–1991
  33. Globalization at the Turn of the Millennium

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