1. AP World History

2. The exam: May 12, 2016 3 hours, 5 minutes long
55 minutes: multiple choice (70)
130 minutes: free-response
50 minutes: DBQ (with 10-minute reading)
40 minutes: Change and Continuity Over Time essay (CCOT)
40 minutes: Comparative essay

3. WHAP Periods
1: Technological & Environmental Transformations (to c. 600 BCE)—5%
2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies (600 BCE-600 CE)—15%
3: Regional & Transregional Interactions (600 CE-c. 1450)—20%
4: Global Interaction ( )—20%
5: Industrialization & Global Integration ( )—20%
6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments (1900-present)—20%

4. Unit 1: Key Concepts 1.1: Big Geography and Peopling of the Earth
Paleolithic Era
1.2: The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies
Neolithic Revolution
Agriculture and pastoralism (beginning)
1.3: Development & Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral and Urban Societies
Development of early civilizations (Mesopotamia, Nile River Valley, etc.)
Development of states
Development & unification of cultures