History and Social Sciences

AP World History: Modern

AP World History: Modern is designed to be the equivalent of an introductory college or university course in world history. Students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time.