Cover -- Contents -- PART I: STRATEGIES FOR THE AP EXAM -- Preparing for the AP Exam -- What's in This Book -- Setting Up a Review Schedule -- Before the Exam -- Strategies for the Multiple-Choice Section -- Taking the AP World History Exam -- Types of Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- The Comparative Essay -- The Themes and Habits of Mind -- A Diagnostic Test -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- SECTION II, Part A: Free-Response Essays -- SECTION II, Part B: Continuity and Change Over Time Essay -- SECTION II, Part C: Comparative Essay -- Answers for Section I -- Answers for Section II, Part A: Document-Based Question (DBQ) -- Answers for Section II, Part B: Continuity and Change Over Time Question -- Answers for Section II, Part C: Comparative Question -- Calculating Your Score on the Diagnostic Test -- PART II: A REVIEW OF AP WORLD HISTORY -- CHAPTER 1: Africa: Ca. 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E. -- The Earliest Human Societies -- Egypt: 3100-1070 b.c.e. -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 2: The Middle East: Ca. 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E. -- Mesopotamia -- The Neo-Assyrian Empire -- Israel -- The Persian Empire -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 3: Asia: Ca. 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E. -- East Asia -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 4: Europe: Ca. 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E. -- Early Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean -- The Greek City-States and Empire -- Rome: Republic to Empire -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 5: The Americas: Ca. 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E. -- The Western Hemisphere -- The Olmec -- The Chavín -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- A Note on Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 6: Africa: 600-1450.

African Environments -- Africa and Indian Ocean Trade -- Social and Cultural Change in Africa from 1200 to 1500 -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 7: The Middle East: 600-1450 -- The Origins of Islam -- Islamic Caliphates -- The Crusades -- The Mongols in the Middle East -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 8: Asia: 600-1450 -- China -- The Mongols -- Korea -- Japan -- Vietnam -- South Asia and the Indian Ocean Trade Network -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 9: Europe: 600-1450 -- Early Medieval Western Europe: 600-1000 -- The Church in the West -- Late Medieval Western Europe: 1000-1450 -- The Crusades -- The Byzantine Empire -- Kievan Russia -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 10: The Americas: 600-1450 -- Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica: 600-900 -- The Postclassic Period in Mesoamerica: 900-1500 -- The Peoples of North America -- Andean Civilizations: 600-1500 -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 11: Africa: 1450-1750 -- West and East Africa: The Europeans' First Contacts -- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Explodes -- Angola and the Cape Colony -- Africa and Islam: North Africa, the Sudan, and the Swahili Coast -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 12: The Middle East: 1450-1750 -- The Ottoman Empire -- The Safavids of Iran -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 13: Asia: 1450-1750 -- China During the Ming Empire -- The Qing Empire Emerges -- Trade and Expansion in the Ming and Qing Eras -- Japan: Chaos and Control -- Japanese Isolation Develops -- European Domination of Indian Ocean Trade -- The Mughal Empire of India -- Multiple-Choice Questions.

Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 14: Europe: 1450-1750 -- The End of the Hundred Years War and the Rise of European Monarchs -- The Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Counter Reformation, and European Society -- The Later Renaissance and the Humanist World View -- Merchants, Bankers, Trade, and Capitalism -- World Exploration and the Columbian Exchange -- The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment -- Russia -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 15: The Americas: 1450-1750 -- The Arrival of the Spanish -- The Columbian Exchange -- Latin American Government, Society, and Economy -- The West Indian Plantations -- The Colonial Settlements of North America -- New France -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 16: Africa: 1750-1914 -- The Rise of African Empires -- Africa and the Slave Trade -- Egypt and Ethiopia: Modernization and Westernization -- Old Imperialism Versus New Imperialism -- The Effects of New Imperialism on Africa -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 17: The Middle East: 1750-1914 -- The Ottoman Empire at the Start of the Nineteenth Century -- Modernization in the Ottoman Empire -- The Crimean War: 1853-1856 -- The "Sick Man of Europe" and the Eastern Question -- Nationalism and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 18: Asia: 1750-1914 -- The British Empire in India -- The Decline of the Qing Empire -- Japan and Modernization -- Western Dominance in Southeast Asia and the Pacific -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 19: Europe: 1750-1914 -- Revolutionary Ideas -- The French Revolution -- Conservative Reaction in Europe -- The Rise of the West: The Industrial Revolution -- The Russian Empire.

Nationalism, Empire, and Unification -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 20: The Americas: 1750-1914 -- Revolution and Change -- Latin American Independence Movements -- The Industrial Revolution: Impact and Change -- Social and Economic Challenges -- The United States and New Imperialism in Latin America -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 21: Africa: 1914 to the Present -- World War I -- The Interwar Period -- World War II and Independence Movements -- Decolonization -- The Cold War -- The Post-Cold War World -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 22: The Middle East: 1914 to the Present -- World War I -- The Interwar Period -- World War II and Independence Movements -- The Cold War and Decolonization -- The Post-Cold War World -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 23: Asia: 1914 to the Present -- World War I -- The Interwar Period -- World War II and Independence Movements -- The Cold War and Decolonization -- The Post-Cold War World -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 24: Europe: 1914 to the Present -- World War I -- The Great Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism -- World War II and Independence Movements -- The Cold War and Decolonization -- The Post-Cold War World -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- CHAPTER 25: The Americas: 1914 to the Present -- World War I -- The Interwar Period -- World War II -- The Cold War -- The Post-Cold War World -- Multiple-Choice Questions -- Free-Response Questions -- Answers -- PART III: PRACTICE TESTS -- Practice Test 1 -- Practice Test 2.