AP World History: Modern Themes | World History Project
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World history includes a lot of names, places, dates, events, and all kinds of other stuff. Historians use different tools to organize their narratives and make sense of all the complexity. The AP® World History course uses six themes to help guide students through the 800 years from 1200 to the present. Organizing past events into themes can help group different events together so we can tell what changed, helping us make comparisons and connections between different regions and time periods. This video introduces the six themes and shows students some tricks for decoding AP exam questions.
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history course structured it around six
themes
some teachers use these three-letter
acronyms to refer to each theme but your
teacher might use a different set of
words or a mnemonic device like spice
tea or pieces but they're all talking
about the same six themes
without a tool like themes
it looks like like a bunch of different
names
organizing past events into themes helps
us group different events together so we
can tell what changed and what stayed
the same
that helps us make comparisons and
connections between different regions
and time periods we know that the AP
exam can be stressful but learning the
themes will make the exam a lot easier
lots of AP exam questions reference the
themes some questions are obvious about
it but some are downright sneaky so you
need to learn the themes and you need to
practice decoding exam questions to
figure out which theme or themes they're
asking about think of the themes as six
different threads that run through the
course connecting different parts of
human history
as you read articles and watch videos in
this course you should keep pulling on
these threads uncovering new linkages