AP World History: Modern

CED topics 1.1 States in Africa, 1.2 States in East Asia, 1.3 States in Europe. Covers the Songhai Empire, Mali Empire, Great Zimbabwe; Song Dynasty China, the Kamakura Shogunate; and European feudal states and the Holy Roman Empire.

CED topics 1.4 States in South and Southeast Asia, 1.5 States in the Americas. Covers the Delhi Sultanate, Vijayanagara Empire, Khmer Empire; and the Inca, Aztec, and Maya civilizations.

CED topic 1.6 Global and Regional Religions and Belief Systems. Covers the spread and influence of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, and indigenous belief systems c. 1200–1450.

CED topics 2.1 The Silk Roads, 2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World. Covers Silk Road trade routes, goods exchanged, and cultural diffusion; the rise of the Mongol Empire, Pax Mongolica, and the Silk Road under Mongol control.

CED topics 2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean, 2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes. Covers Indian Ocean trade networks, dhows, monsoon winds, Swahili Coast city-states; and trans-Saharan trade, gold-salt trade, and the spread of Islam in West Africa.

CED topic 2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity. Covers the spread of religions, technologies, diseases, and ideas along trade routes, and the environmental and demographic effects of increased connectivity.

CED topics 3.1 Development of Land-Based Empires, 3.2 Continuities and Changes in the Islamic World. Covers the rise of the Manchu/Qing, Mughal, Ottoman, and Safavid empires, and the political and religious developments in the Islamic world.

CED topics 3.3 Empire Belief Systems, 3.4 Comparative Empire Building. Covers how rulers maintained power (bureaucracies, military, religion), religious developments (Sunni-Shia split, religious tolerance), and comparisons between empires.

CED topics 4.1 Exploration: Causes and Events from 1450, 4.2 The Columbian Exchange. Covers motivations for exploration, technological innovations (caravel, astrolabe), and the exchange of crops, animals, diseases, and people between hemispheres.

CED topics 4.3 Maritime Empires Established and Maintained, 4.4 Internal and External Challenges to State Power. Covers European maritime empires (Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British, French), trading post empires, and challenges (rebellions, resistance, competition).

CED topic 4.5 Changes to Social Hierarchies. Covers the caste system in Spanish colonies, the enlargement of the African slave trade, social stratification in colonial societies, and effects on indigenous populations.

CED topics 5.1 The Enlightenment, 5.2 Nationalism and Revolutions. Covers Enlightenment thinkers and ideas (Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire), and how these ideas inspired the American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions.

CED topics 5.3 The Industrial Revolution, 5.4 Industrialization Spreads. Covers causes of industrialization in Britain, key inventions, the factory system, and the spread of industrialization to continental Europe, the US, and Japan.

CED topics 5.5 Technology of the Industrial Age, 5.6 Economic Development and Innovations. Covers steam engine, railroads, telegraph, steel production, and new economic systems (capitalism, socialism, communism).

CED topics 5.7 Economic Effects of Government Policies, 5.8 Reactions to the Industrial Economy. Covers government roles in industrialization (tariffs, infrastructure), labor movements, unions, and reforms.

CED topic 5.9 Society and the Industrial Age. Covers social classes, urbanization, living conditions, family structure changes, women's roles, and education during industrialization.

CED topics 6.1 Rationale for State Expansion, 6.2 State Expansion. Covers motivations for imperialism (economic, political, social/cultural), and the methods of state expansion (conquest, treaty, economic domination).

CED topics 6.3 Indigenous Responses to State Expansion, 6.4 Global Economic Development. Covers resistance movements (Sepoy Mutiny, Boxer Rebellion, Maji Maji Rebellion), and the growth of the global economy through imperial extraction.

CED topics 6.5 Economic Imperialism, 6.6 Causes and Effects of Migration. Covers economic domination without direct political control (Latin America, Ottoman Empire, China), and push/pull factors driving global migration patterns.

CED topics 7.1 Shifting Power After 1900, 7.2 Causes of World War I. Covers the decline of old empires, the rise of new powers (US, Japan, Germany), MAIN causes of WWI (militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism), and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

CED topics 7.3 Conducting World War I, 7.4 The Economy in the Interwar Period. Covers trench warfare, new technologies, total war, the home front, Treaty of Versailles, the Great Depression, and economic recovery attempts.

CED topics 7.5 Unresolved Tensions After WWI leading to WWII, 7.6 World War II. Covers the rise of fascism, appeasement, causes and key events of WWII, the Holocaust, and other mass atrocities of the 20th century.

CED topics 8.1 Setting the Stage for the Cold War, 8.2 The Cold War. Covers the ideological divide between US and USSR, containment, the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO vs Warsaw Pact, and proxy wars.

CED topics 8.3 The Spread of Communism, 8.4 Decolonization After WWII. Covers the Chinese Communist Revolution, Korean War, Cuban Revolution; and the wave of independence movements in Asia and Africa after 1945.

CED topics 8.5 Creating New States, 8.6 The End of the Cold War. Covers the challenges of new states (India/Pakistan, Israel, African nations), non-alignment, the fall of the Berlin Wall, collapse of the USSR, and the end of the Cold War.

CED topics 8.7 Effects of the Cold War, 8.8 Cultural Responses to Global Conflicts. Covers the arms race, space race, proxy wars, and cultural responses to conflict (literature, art, music, sports).

CED topics 9.1 Advances in Technology and Communication, 9.2 Disease and Global Health. Covers the internet, telecommunications, transportation advances, and global health challenges (HIV/AIDS, pandemics, medical advances).

CED topics 9.3 Environmental Impacts of Globalization, 9.4 Economic Changes in the Global Economy. Covers climate change, deforestation, pollution, multinational corporations, free trade, and global supply chains.

CED topics 9.5 Movements for Rights and Reform, 9.6 New International Institutions. Covers human rights movements, women's rights, environmental movements, and the UN, WTO, IMF, World Bank, and other international organizations.