AP Periodization
Stearns Units
Stearns Textbook Chapters
Period 1: Technological and
Environmental Transformations to
c. 600 BCE
Part I: From Hunting and
Gathering to Civilizations, 2.5
million-1000 BCE
Origins
Ch. 1: From Human Prehistory to
the Early Civilizations
Period 2: Organization and
Reorganization of Human
Societies, c. 600 BCE- c. 600 CE
Part II: The Classical Period, 1000
BCE-500 C.E
Uniting Large Regions
Ch. 2: Classical Civilizations:
China
Ch. 3: Classical Civilizations:
India
Ch. 4: Classical Civilization in the
Mediterranean: Greece &
Rome
Ch. 5: The Classical Period:
Directions, Diversities, and
Declines by 500 CE
Period 3: Regional and
Part III: The Postclassical Period,
Transregional Interactions, c. 600- 500-1450
c. 1450
New Faith and New Commerce
Ch. 6: The First Global
Civilization: The Rise and Spread
of Islam
Ch. 7: Abbasid Decline and the
Spread of Islamic Civilization to
South and Southeast Asia
Ch. 8: African Civilizations and
the Spread of Islam
Ch. 9: Civilization in Eastern
Europe: Byzantium and
Orthodox Europe
Ch. 10: A New Civilization
Emerges in Western Europe
Ch. 11: The Americas on the Eve
of Invasion
Ch. 12: Reunification and
Renaissance in Chinese
Civilizations: The Era of the Tang
and Song Dynasties
Ch. 13: The Spread of Chinese
Civilization: Japan, Korea, and
Vietnam
Ch. 14: The Last Great Nomadic
Challenges: From Chinggis Khan
to Timur
Period 4: Global Interactions, c.
1450- c. 1750
Ch. 15: The West and the
Changing Balance of World
Power
Part IV: The Early Modern Period,
1450-1750
The World Shrinks
Ch. 16: The World Economy
Ch. 17: The Transformation of
the West, 1450-1750
Ch. 18: The Rise of Russia
Ch. 19: Early Latin America
Ch. 20: Africa and the Africans
in the Age of the Atlantic Slave
Trade
Ch. 21: The Muslim Empires
Ch. 22: Asian Transitions in an
Age of Global Change
Period 5: Industrialization and
Global Integration, c. 1750-c.
1900
Period V: The Dawn of the
Industrial Age, 1750-1914
Ch. 23: The Emergence of
Industrial Society in the West,
1750-1914
Ch. 24: Industrialization and
Imperialism: The Making of the
European Global Order
Ch. 25: The Consolidation of
Latin America, 1830-1920
Ch. 26: Civilizations in Crisis: The
Ottoman Empire, the Islamic
Heartlands, and Qing China
Ch. 27: Russia and Japan:
Industrialization Outside the
West
Period 6: Accelerating Global
Change and Realignments, c.
1900-Present
Unit VI: The Newest Stage of World Ch. 28: Descent into the Abyss;
History: 1914-Present
World War I and the Crisis of the
European Global Order
Ch. 29: The World Between the
Wars: Revolutions, Depression,
and Authoritarian Response
Ch. 30: A Second Global
Conflict and the End of the
European World Order
Ch. 31: Western Society and
Eastern Europe in the Decades
of the Cold War
Ch. 32: Latin America:
Revolution and Reaction into
the 21st Century
Ch. 33: Africa, the Middle East,
and Asia in the Era of
Independence
Ch. 34: Rebirth and Revolution:
Nation-building in East Asia and
the Pacific Rim
Ch. 35: The End of the Cold War
and the Shape of a New Era:
World History 1990-2006
Ch. 36: Globalization and
Resistance