General Review
SAMPLE TIMELINE:
VIDEO REVIEWS:
Heimler's History - Big Picture Overviews of the Full Unit:
Heimler's History - More Specific Topic Areas:
Freemanpedia History - More Specific Topic Areas (SHORT AND VERY HELPFUL):
Relevant Crash Course, Khan Academy, & Nat Geo Videos:
Freemanpedia History - Big Picture Overviews of the Full Unit:
"Deep Dives" into Specifics:
Helpful Reviews of the Strayer Ways of the World Readings
TEXT REVIEWS:
VIDEO REVIEWS:
Heimler's History - Big Picture Overviews of the Full Unit:
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: BIG PICTURE LAND BASED EMPIRES 15 min
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED BIG PICTURE OVERVIEW TRANSOCEANIC INTERACTIONS (Maritime Empires) 25 min <- he just posted this tonight!
Heimler's History - More Specific Topic Areas:
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: LAND BASED EMPIRES EXPAND
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: LAND BASED EMPIRES ADMINISTRATION
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: EMPIRES & BELIEF SYSTEMS
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: TECHNOLOGY in Sea-Based Empires
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: CAUSES OF EUROPEAN EXPLORATION
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: SEA BASED EMPIRES
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: MERCANTILISM EXPLAINED
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: CHALLENGES TO STATE POWER
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: CHANGING SOCIAL HIERARCHIES
Freemanpedia History - More Specific Topic Areas (SHORT AND VERY HELPFUL):
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: RUSSIA & MANCHU EMPIRES
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: OTTOMANS & SAFAVID
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: MUGHAL INDIA & TOKUGAWA JAPAN
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: BELIEF SYSTEMS OF LAND BASED EMPIRES
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: LAND BASED EMPIRES MVP
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: MARITIME TECHNOLOGY
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: SETTING THE BOARD FOR SEA EMPIRES
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: PORTUGUESE & SPANISH EMPIRES
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: DUTCH & BRITISH
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: CHALLENGES TO STATE POWER
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: CHANGING SOCIAL STRUCTURES
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: MARITIME MVP
Relevant Crash Course, Khan Academy, & Nat Geo Videos:
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: Spanish Empire, Silver Trade
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: Venice & the Ottoman Empire
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: Russian History Review
- Columbus, de Gama, Zheng He
- The Columbian Exchange
- The Atlantic Slave Trade (Video One) and Transatlantic Slave Trade (Video Two)
- STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: Protestant Reformation
- Kids Video: Protestant Reformation - Recommended!
Freemanpedia History - Big Picture Overviews of the Full Unit:
- RECOMMENDED: Land Based Empires (13 minute review of all)
- RECOMMENDED: Transoceanic Interactions (Maritime Empires) (15 minutes)
"Deep Dives" into Specifics:
Helpful Reviews of the Strayer Ways of the World Readings
- Chapter 12: The World's of the 15th Century
- Chapter 13: Political Transformations
- Chapter 14: Economic Transformations
- Chapter 15: Cultural Transformations
TEXT REVIEWS:
- Kaz's Study Guide
- *Sample Review Reading with important info highlighted*
- Sample Review Reading from Kaplan
- Sample Review Reading Crash Course (old version - still helpful but looks different than updated version)
- Cram Packet from Mrs. Oz
- Comic History!
- Freemanpedia (click through the site!)
- APWORLDIPEDIA: LAND-BASED EMPIRES EXPAND (Manchu, Mughal, Ottoman, Russian)
- APWORLDIPEDIA: ADMINISTRATION SYSTEMS OF EMPIRES
- APWORLDIPEDIA: BELIEF SYSTEMS 1450-1750 (Protestant Reformation, Sunni-Shia, Sufism, Sikhism)
- APWORLDIPEDIA TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
- APWORLDIPEDIA: EUROPEAN EXPLORATION CAUSES & EVENTS
- AP WORLDIPEDIA: COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
- APWORLDIPEDIA: MARITIME EMPIRES ESTABLISHED
- APWORLDIPEDIA: MARITIME EMPIRES MAINTAINED & DEVELOPED (Mercantilism, Slave Trade, Syncretism in the Americas)
- APWORLDIPEDIA: INTERNAL & EXTERNAL CHALLENGES TO STATE POWER
- APWORLDIPEDIA: CHANGING SOCIAL HIERARCHIES 1450-1750
Maps and Geography Help
- Map of Empires
- Also see Freemanpedia Maps!
Region/Topic Specific Resources (being updated)
Developments in the Americas
Developments in Beliefs Systems
- Oprah's Belief System's: Christianity
- Horrible Histories (awesome) Catholic Report (Protestant Reformation and what happens after)
- Kids Video: Protestant Reformation - Recommended!
- Video and article: Protestant Reformation
- The Origins of Calvinism
- Who are Sikhs? NOW WORLD Video (from class)
- Highly Recommend! Guru Nanak and Sikhism
- Sikhism Overview from Hip Hughes (Excellent complete review)
- Sikhism - Commercial to clear up misconceptions about Sikhs (in response to increase in attacks/discrimination in America)
- How are Sikhism and Hinduism different? Thoughtco Article
- How are Sikhism and Islam different? Thoughtco Article
- Aceh & Sharia Law
- Addition video clips on developments in Aceh click here for another short review, here for a discussion of the Sharia Index, and here for an in depth look with VICE (includes interesting interview
- What is Wahhabism? NOW WORLD Video
- What is Wahhabism? (article from The Telegraph)
- Voodoo: Facts about a Misunderstood Religion (contemporary article)
- Santeria in Cuba (contemporary explanation)
Other Cultural Developments
Helpful for the Ways of the World textbook chapters
20-30 minute Video Reviews of the textbook chapters you read this unit (from another AP World Teacher):