Table Of ContentTo the Student How to Get the Most from This Program Working with Evidence Historical Thinking Skills: An AP® Primer Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History PART ONE First Things First: Beginnings in History, to 600 b.c.e. 1. First Peoples; First Farmers: Most of History in a Single Chapter, to 4000 b.c.e. 2. First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 b.c.e.-500 b.c.e. PART TWO Second-Wave Civilizations in World History, 600 b.c.e.-600 c.e. 3. State and Empire in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.-500 c.e. 4. Culture and Religion in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.-500 c.e. 5. Society and Inequality in Eurasia/North Africa, 500 b.c.e.-500 c.e. 6. Commonalities and Variations: Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania, 500 b.c.e.-1200 c.e. PART THREE An Age of Accelerating Connections, 600-1450 7. Commerce and Culture, 500-1500 8. China and the World: East Asian Connections, 500-1300 9. The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections, 600-1500 10. The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction, Expansion, and Division, 500-1300 11. Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment, 1200-1500 12. The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century PART FOUR The Early Modern World, 1450-1750 13. Political Transformations: Empires and Encounters, 1450-1750 14. Economic Transformations: Commerce and Consequence, 1450-1750 15. Cultural Transformations: Religion and Science, 1450-1750 PART FIVE The European Moment in World History, 1750-1900 16. Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes, 1750-1914 17. Revolutions of Industrialization, 1750-1914 18. Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania, 1750-1950 19. Empires in Collision: Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, 1800-1914 PART SIX The Most Recent Century, 1900-2015 20. Collapse at the Center: World War, Depression, and the Rebalancing of Global Power, 1914-1970s 21. Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict: The Rise and Fall of World Communism, 1917-present 22. The End of Empire: The Global South on the Global Stage, 1914-present 23. Capitalism and Culture: The Acceleration of Globalization, since 1945 Notes Acknowledgments Index
SynopsisWays of the World is the ideal textbook for your redesigned AP(R) World History classroom. Like the AP(R) course it supports, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert Strayer and Eric Nelson provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture. Each chapter then culminates with collections of primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, allowing students to consider the evidence the way historians do., Ways of the World is the ideal textbook for your redesigned AP(R) World History classroom. Like the AP(R) course it supports, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert Strayer and Eric Nelson provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture. Each chapter then culminates with collections of primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, allowing students to consider the evidence the way historians do.', Ways of the World is the ideal textbook for your redesigned AP® World History classroom. Like the AP® course it supports, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert Strayer and Eric Nelson provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture. Each chapter then culminates with collections of primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, allowing students to consider the evidence the way historians do.