AP World History: Modern

2.1: The Silk Roads

2.2: The Mongol Empire

2.3: The Indian Ocean trading network

2.4: The trans-Saharan trade routes

2.5: The effects of cross-cultural interactions

3.1: The development of the Manchu, Mughal, Ottoman, and Safavid empires

3.2: How rulers of empires maintained their power

3.3: Religious developments in empires

4.1: The influence of scientific learning and technological innovation

4.2: The Columbian Exchange

4.3: Development and expansion of maritime empires

4.4: Internal and external challenges to state power

4.5: Changes to social hierarchies linked to the spread of empires

5.1: The Enlightenment

5.2: Revolutions against existing governments and the birth of new nation-states

5.3: The Industrial Revolution

5.4: Trade policies

5.5: The development of industrial economies

6.1: State expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries

6.2: Resistance to imperialism

6.3: The growth of the global economy

6.4: Economic imperialism

6.5: Causes and effects of new migration patterns

7.1: Changes in the global political order after 1900

7.2: World War I: its causes and how it was fought

7.3: The interwar period

7.4: World War II: its causes and how it was fought

7.5: Mass atrocities after 1900

8.1: The causes and effects of the Cold War

8.2: The spread of communism

8.3: How colonies in Asia and Africa achieved independence

8.4: The creation of new states after decolonization

8.5: The end of the Cold War

9.1: Advances in technology and their effects

9.2: Disease

9.3: Environment

9.4: Economic change

9.5: Movements for reform

9.6: How globalization changed culture

9.7: New international institutions