导语

  

    : If you need to know it, it's in this book. Cracking the AP World History, 2012 Edition, includes:
    · 2 full-length practice tests, fully updated for the May 2012 Exam
    · Comprehensive review of all topics from prehistoric times to the present
    · Timelines, summaries, and key term lists in every chapter
    · Helpful strategies for writing high-scoring DBQ and free-response essays
    · Advice on how to use Process of Elimination to maximize your multiple-choice section score
    · Updated strategies which reflect the AP test scoring change
    · Detailed explanations for every practice question

内容提要

  

Introduction  ix
PART I: HOW TO CRACK THE SYSTEM  1
  Welcome to the World of AP World History 3
  Cracking the Multiple-Cholce Section  11
  Cracking the Essay Questions 37
  Cracking the Document-Based Question (DBQ) 45
  Cracking the Free-Response Questions 65
PART II: THE AP WORLD HJSTORY REVIEW  83
6  Ancient Stuff: Around 8000 B.C.E. to Around 600 C.E. 89
  History Review through 600 C.E.  91
    Nomads: Follow the Food  91
    Settling Down: The Neolithic Revolution  92
    The Big, Early Civilizations: The Rivers Deliver  94
    Early Mesoamerica and Andean South America: For Every Rule There's an Exception  102
    The Classical Civilizations: Mesoamerica  103
    The Classical Civilizations: India and China  104
    The Classical Civilizations: Mediterranean  106
    Late Classical Period: Empires Collapse, and People on the Move  113
  Major Belief Systems through 600 C.E.  117
  Technology and Innovations through 600 C.E.  124
  Changes and Continuities in the Role of Women  125
  Pulling It All Together  126
  Timeline of Major Developments 8000 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.  130
7  Really Old Stuff: Around 600 C.E. to Around 1450 131
  Review of History Within Civilizations 600 C.E.-1450  133
    The Rise of Islam  134
    Developments in Europe and the Byzantine Empire  138
    Developments in Asia  148
    The Rise and Fall of the Mongols  154
    Developments in Africa  157
    Developments in the Americas  160
  Review of Interactions Among Cultures 600 C.E.-1450  162
    Trade Networks and Cultural Diffusion  162
    Expansion of Religion and Empire: Culture Clash  164
    Other Reasons People Were on the Move  166
  Technology and Innovations 600 C.E.-1450 167
  Changes and Continuities in the Role of Women  167
  Pulling It All Together  169
  Timeline of Major Developments 600 c.E.-1450 172
  Old Stuff: Approximately 1450 to Around 1750 173
  Major European Developments 1450-1750  176
    Revolutions in European Thought and Expression  176
    Renaissance: Classical Civilization Part II  176
    The Protestant Reformation: Streamlining Salvation  179
    The Scientific Revolution: Prove It or Lose It  182
    The Enlightenment: Out of Darkness, Into the Light  184
    European Exploration and Expansion: Empires of the Wind  185
  Developments in Specific Countries and Empires 1450-1750  192
    The European Rivals  193
    Russia Out of Isolation  199
    Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ohoman, Safavid, and Mughal  201
    Africa  202
    Isolated Asia  203
  Technology and Innovations 1450-1750  205
  Changes and Continuities in the Role of Women  206
  PuLling It All Together  207
  Timeline of Major Developments 1450-1750  210
9  Not So Old Stuff: Sometime Around 1750 to About 1914 211
  Industry and Imperialism  213
    The Industrial Revolution  21,4
    European Imperialism in India  221
    European Imperialism in China  222
    Japanese Imperialism  224
    European Imperialism in Africa  225
  Political Developments in the Americas and Europe  228
    Two Revolutions: American and French  228
    Lots of Independence Movements: Latin America  233
    Two Unifications: Italy and Germany  235
    Other Political Developments  238
  Technology and Intellectual Developments 1750 to About 1914  239
  Changes and Continuities in the Role of Women  240
  Pulling It All Together  240
  Timeline of Major Developments 1750-1914  245
10  Recent Stuff: Around 1914 to the Present 247
  The Twentieth Century in Chunks  249
    The World War I Era  249
    The World War II Era  253
    Communism and the Cold War  262
    Independence Movements and Developments in Asia and Africa  273
    Globalization and the World Since 1980  283
  Changes and Continuities in the Role of Women  287
  Pulling It All Together  288
  Timeline of Major Developments Since 1914  292
PART III: THE PRINCETON REVIEW AP WORLD HISTORY
PRACTICE TESTS AND EXPLANATIONS  293
11  Practice Test 1  297
12  Practice Test 1: Answers and Explanations 321
13  Practice Test2 339
14  Practice Test 2: Answers and Explanations 361
Index  379
About the Authors  397