Name: Mastering the DBQ
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Description: The Document Based Question (DBQ) is one of the most intimidating tasks on an AP History Exam. It combines skills, knowledge, and time-management into one essay, and you can do it! Learn what it takes to master the DBQ, including some specifics about the task, the scoring, and tips to overcome common fears.

AP World History: Modern

Unit 0 – Before 1200 CE

Unit 1 – The Global Tapestry (1200-1450)

Unit 2 – Networks of Exchange (1200-1450)

Unit 3 – Land-Based Empires (1450-1750)

Unit 4 – Global Connections: 1450-1750

Unit 5 – Revolutions (1750-1900)

Unit 6 – Industrialization's Impact (1750-1900)

Unit 7 – Global Conflicts (1900-Present)

Unit 8 – Cold War & Decolonization (1900-Present)

Unit 9 – Globalization: 1900 to Today

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The Document Based Question (DBQ) is one of the most intimidating tasks on an AP History Exam. It combines skills, knowledge, and time-management into one essay, and you can do it! Learn what it takes to master the DBQ, including some specifics about the task, the scoring, and tips to overcome common fears. 

Periodizing Time Period 1

What’s Unit 1 All About?

Unit 1 Overview: The Global Tapestry

Developments in East Asia

Social Structures in China

Periphery of China

Developments in East Asia from 1200-1450

Developments in Dar al-Islam

Periphery of the Abbasids

Developments in Dar al-Islam from 1200-1450

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Developments in South and Southeast Asia from 1200-1450

Developments in the Americas

Major Empires of the Americas

State Building in the Americas from 1200-1450

Developments in Africa

State Building in Africa from 1200-1450

Feudal Society

Regionalism to Kingdoms

Religious Conflict

The Renaissance

Developments in Europe from 1200-1450

Direct Comparisons (Based on the Years)

Direct Comparisons (Based on Dynasties)

New States Emerged

Former Empires Were Revived

Expansion in Scope

Comparisons in the Period from 1200-1450

Unit 1 – The Global Tapestry, 1200-1450

Trade Routes

Review Time

Unit 2 Overview: Networks of Exchange

What are the Silk Roads?

Causes of Silk Road Trade

Effects of the Silk Roads

The Silk Roads

The Historical Influence of the Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World

What Was the Indian Ocean Trade?

Causes of Indian Ocean Trade

Effects of the Indian Ocean on Trade

Exchange in the Indian Ocean

What Were The Trans-Saharan Trade Routes?

Causes of Trans-Saharan Trade

Expansion of Trans-Saharan Empires

Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

Cultural Consequences of Connectivity

Cultural Effects of Trade 

Environmental Consequences of Connectivity

Environmental Effects of Trade

Comparison of Economic Exchange

Comparison in Trade from 1200-1450

Unit 2 – Networks of Exchange, 1200-1450

Unit 3 Overview: Land-Based Empires

Contextualizing the Unit 

Let’s meet the  

Formation of Land Based Empires

Expansion of Land-Based Empires

Bureaucratic or Military Elites

Great Works of Art, Monuments, and Pretty Buildings 

Governments of Land-Based Empires

Religious Movements

Belief Systems of Land-Based Empires

 Land Based Empires

Maritime Empires

Difference Between Land-Based and Maritime Empires

Comparison in Land-Based Empires

Unit 3 – Land-Based Empires, 1450-1750

Contextualizing the Unit 

Main Events

Main Vocabulary

Major Trends Between 1450-1750

Unit 4 Overview: Transoceanic Interconnections

4.1 Required Course Content 

Technological Innovations from 1450 to 1750

4.2 Required Course Content 

Motives for Exploration

Achievements in Exploration

Exploration: Causes and Events from 1450 to 1750

4.3 Required Content

What is the Columbian Exchange?

Flow of Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade

Columbian Exchange

4.4 Required Content

Europeans in the World

The Americas

Changes in Labor Systems

Maritime Empires Established

4.5 Required Content

A Continuation of Mercantilism 

Commercial Revolution

Triangular Trade

Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed

Internal and External Challenges to State Power

Rebellions & Revolts

Internal and External Challenges to State Power from 1450 to 1750

Changing Social Hierarchies

Gunpowder Empires

China

Europe

Jewish Diaspora

Russia

Changing Social Hierarchies: Class and Race from 1450-1750

Interconnected World: The Bridge Between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres

Old Systems, New Methods: Changes in Agriculture

Changes in Agriculture: Implications

Ever-expanding Empires

Conflicts between Empires

Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750

Unit 4 – Transoceanic Interactions, 1450-1750

Contextualizing the Unit

The Big Ideas Behind This Unit

Major Trends

Unit 5 Overview: Revolutions

Reason and Individualism Gain Traction

The Enlightenment

Industrial Capitalism: Consequences

Revolutions and Rebelions

Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age

Nationalism and Revolutions from 1750-1900

Causes of the Industrial Revolution

Industrialization Begins

Industrialization Shifts to a Global Platform

Industrialization Spreads, 1750 to 1900

New Technologies

Second Industrial Revolution

Technology in the Industrial Age

Introduction

Government's Role in Industrialization from 1750-1900

New Economic Philosophies

Innovations in Business

Effects on Mass Culture

Economic Developments and Innovations in the Industrial Age

Labor Unions

Alternative Ideologies

Government Responses

Reactions to Industrialization, 1750-1900

New Everyday Life

Women in the Industrial Age

Effects of Urbanization

Summary of Content

Social Effects of Industrialization

Unit 5 – Revolutions, 1750-1900

Unit 6 Overview: Consequences of Industrialization

Key Concepts

Key Questions

Vocabulary

How White People Justified Imperialism

Rationales for Imperialism

State Expansion

Expansion of Imperialism

Indigenous Responses to Imperialism

Global Economic Development from 1750 to 1900

Examples of Economic Imperialism

Economic Imperialism

Overview

Transportation

Labor

Imperialism

Causes of Migration from 1750 to 1900

Enclaves

Effects of Migration from 1750 to 1900

Causation in the Imperial Age

Unit 6 – Consequences of Industrialization, 1750-1900

Unit 7 Overview: Global Conflict

Contextualizing the Unit 💥

Global Balance of Power

Collapse of Empires

Shifting Power After 1900

Militarism

Alliances

Nationalism

Archduke’s Assassination

Causes of World War I

War on Two Fronts

New Military Technology

The Home Front

Conducting World War I

Basis of Postwar Economy: The Treaty of Versailles

Economy in the Interwar Period

Unit 7 – Global Conflict, 1900-Present

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