The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with deifferent types of human socities. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. AP World History highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. AP World World History emphasizes relevant factual knowledge used in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. The course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, explicatity discussed, forms an organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course, along with consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.

What you will find on this site:

• Outlines - We have two sets of World History outlines on Course-Notes.Org; The Earth and Its People and World Civilizations
• Vocabulary - Vocabulary - Key vocabulary terms and definitions for the different time periods in World History
• Regional Outlines - These outlines break up world history topics and show how they progressed in different time periods, i.e. politics, religion, economics, etc.
• Topic Notes - In this category you will find notes on topics in World History and how they've changed through different time periods in different countries.
• Unit Notes - Notes that cover an entire section of World History and not just one particular chapter
• Glossary -  This glossary contains vocabulary words for World History sorted alphabetically.
• Study Questions  - This category contains study questions for World History topics based on the unit notes also available on this website. These questions will help you get an idea of what types of questions could be asked on tests in class and on the AP World History test.