AP® World History Skills Handbook

Chapter 1: The Rise of Universalizing Religions (300–600 CE)

Chapter 2: New Empires and Common Cultures (600–1000 CE)

Part 1: Becoming “The World” (c. 1200–1450)

Chapter 3: Becoming “The World” (1000–1300)

Chapter 4: Crisis and Recovery in Eurasia (1300–1500)

Part 2: A Changing World Order (c. 1450–1750)

Chapter 5: Contact, Commerce, and Colonization (1450–1600)

Chapter 6: Worlds Entangled (1600–1750)

Chapter 7: Cultures of Splendor and Power (1500–1780)

Part 3: An Imperial and Industrial World (c. 1750–1900)

Chapter 8: Reordering the World (1750–1850)

Chapter 9: Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 10: Nations and Empires (1850–1914)

Chapter 11: An Unsettled World (1890–1914)

Part 4: A Globalizing World (c. 1900–Present)

Chapter 12: Global Crisis (1910–1939)

Chapter 13: The Three-World Order (1940–1975)

Chapter 14: Globalization (1970–2000)

Chapter 15: Epilogue (2001–Present)