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• Two full-length model exams with answer keys
• Detailed advice on answering the comparative essay question
• Strategies for answering the test’s multiple-choice and document-based questions
• A review of world history, from the foundations of civilization circa. 8000 B.C. to world cultures of the twenty-first century
• Book can be purchased with an optional CD-ROM presenting two additional practice tests with automatic scoring
• Reflects the 9 Historical Thinking Skills required by the College Board

Barron’s Essential 5
INTRODUCTION

• How to Use This Book
  The Advanced Placement Examination in World History: An Overview
  Historical Thinking Skills
  Multiple-Choice Question Strategies
  Free-Response (Essay) Questions: General Tips
  Document-Based Question Strategies
  Continuity and Change-Over-Time Essay Question Strategies
  Comparative Essay Question Strategies
  UNIT ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS (8000 B.C.E.–600 B.C.E.)
  Unit Overview
  
• 1 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
  
• 2 The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies
  
• 3 The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban Societies
  Unit One: Review Questions
  UNIT TWO: ORGANIZATION AND REORGANIZATION OF HUMAN SOCIETIES (600 B.C.E.–600 C.E.)
  Unit Overview
  
• 4 The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions
  
• 5 The Development of States and Empires
  
• 6 Emerging Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange
  Unit Two: Review Questions
  UNIT THREE: REGIONAL AND TRANSREGIONAL INTERACTIONS (600–1450)
  Unit Overview
  
• 7 Europe During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
  
• 8 Islam in the Middle East and Africa
  
• 9 China, Japan, and East Asia
  
• 10 South and Southeast Asia
  
• 11 The Mongol Empires
  
• 12 Sub-Saharan Africa
  
• 13 The Americas
  Unit Three: Review Questions
  UNIT FOUR: GLOBAL INTERACTIONS (1450–1750)
  Unit Overview
  
• 14 Europe: Reformation, Absolutism, and Enlightenment
  
• 15 The Western Campaign of Exploration and Colonization
  
• 16 Islamic Empires in the Middle East and North Africa
  
• 17 China, Japan, and East Asia
  
• 18 South and Southeast Asia
  
• 19 Sub-Saharan Africa
  
• 20 The Americas as “New World”
  Unit Four: Review Questions
  UNIT FIVE: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND GLOBAL INTEGRATION (1750–1900)
  Unit Overview
  
• 21 The Europeans at Home: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform
  
• 22 Industrialization and Worldwide Economic Trends
  
• 23 The Europeans Abroad: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Foreign Policy
  
• 24 The Middle East
  
• 25 China and Japan
  
• 26 India and Southeast Asia
  
• 27 Sub-Saharan Africa
  
• 28 Revolution and Consolidation in North and South America
  Unit Five: Review Questions
  UNIT SIX: ACCELERATING GLOBAL CHANGE AND REALIGNMENTS (1900 to Present)
  Unit Overview
  
• 29 World War I
  
• 30 The Twenty Years’ Crisis: The World During the Interwar Period
  
• 31 World War II and the Holocaust
  
• 32 The Cold War
  
• 33 Divergent Forms of Development in the Postwar World, 1945–1991
  
• 34 Social Developments, Cultural Changes, and Intellectual Trends
  
• 35 Integration or Fragmentation? Globalism in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
  Unit Six: Review Questions
  MODEL AP WORLD HISTORY TESTS
  Model Test 1
  Model Test 2
  Appendix: Map of Selected World Regions
  Index

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