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= = ===AP World History is a course used to “develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. It emphasizes relevant and factual knowledge used in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. The course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, explicitly discussed, formsT an organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.” (AP World History Course Description, pg.4)===

===As previously mentioned above, this course is designed with the intent of challenging the students to understand where our world has come from and how we reached the present day. The class is to be considered college level. This means that you are responsible for all of the work, in and out of class. It is detrimental that you keep up, if not ahead, to be able to consume the material. The ultimate goal is to do well on the exam at the end of the year.===

In this course we will analyze history using the following AP World History Themes to identify the broad patterns and processes that explain change and continuity over time.
1 The dynamics of change and continuity across the world history of periods covered in this course, and the causes of processes involved in major changes of these dynamics.=== 2 Patterns and effects of interaction among societies and regions: trade, war, diplomacy, international organizations,cultural, intellectual, and religious developments, including interactions among and within societies. 3 The effects of technology, economics, and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, disease, labor systems, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry).=== 4 Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among societies and assessing change and continuity).=== 5 Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities (political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization).

Chronology of the Course

 * ===Unit 1 - Foundations: circa 8000 B.C.E (B.C.) – 600 C.E. (A.D.)===
 * ===Unit 2 - 600 C.E. (A.D.) – 1450 C.E. (A.D.)===
 * ===Unit 3 - 1450 C.E. (A.D.) – 1750 C.E. (A.D.)===
 * ===First Semester Exam===
 * ===Unit 4 - 1750 C.E. (A.D.) – 1914 C.E. (A.D.)===
 * ===Unit 5 - 1914 C.E. (A.D.) – the present===
 * ===APWH Exam===

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