AP World History highlights six overarching themes that should receive approximately equal attention throughout the course

The following themes serve as unifying threads throughout the course and provide ways to make comparisons over time.

1. The dynamics of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course, and the causes and processes involved in major changes of these dynamics<BR>

2. Patterns and effects of interaction among societies and regions: trade, war, diplomacy, and international organizations

3. The effects of technology, economics, and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, disease, labor systems, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry)

4. Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major fea tures within and among societies, and assessing change and continuity)

5. Cultural, intellectual, and religious developments, including interactions among and within societies

6. Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities (political culture)? including the emer gence of the nation-state (types of political organization)

Use the following links to access things that you MUST know for each of the periods of this AP Course.