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The ideal textbook for the AP® World History classroom, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history, while building AP® skills. Authors Robert Strayer and Eric Nelson provide a thoughtful and insightful commentary that helps students see the big picture, while modeling historical thinking. This edition is even more focused on the needs of AP® students, with AP® Skills Workshops, a DBQ-aligned Working with Evidence feature, and more opportunities to hone AP® skills and practice for the exam.

A truly global AP® World History text focusing on themes and comparisons

Ways of the World with Sources, Volume 2

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-12.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 12-23.

NOTE: Achieve for Ways of the World 5e includes additional activities and assessments for the book content. Along with the interactive e-books for the main text and the companion source reader, Achieve provides quizzes for the source features in the book and the documents in the companion reader, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, study and writing skills tutorials, and a variety of autograded exercises that help students develop their historical thinking skills. Many of these resources are set up for quick use in the pre-built courses in Achieve, which can be customized easily, and Reach also allows instructors to construct quiz questions and upload their own documents.

Preface
Versions and Supplements
Working with Primary Sources
Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History

12. THE WORLDS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

Societies and Cultures of the Fifteenth Century

Paleolithic Persistence: Australia and North America

Agricultural Village Societies: The Igbo and the Iroquois

Pastoral Pe

Robert W. Strayer (PhD, University of Wisconsin) taught African, Soviet, and world history for many years at SUNY College at Brockport, where he received Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching and for Excellence in Scholarship. In 1998 he was visiting professor of world and Soviet history at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since 2002, he has taught world history at the University of California, Santa Cruz; California State University, Monterey Bay; and Cabrillo College. His scholarship includes work in African history (Kenya: Focus on Nationalism, 1975; The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa, 1978); Soviet history (Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?,1998; The Communist Experiment, 2007) and World History (The Making of the Modern World, 1988, 1995; Ways of the World, 2009, 2011). He is a long-time member of the World History Association and served on its Executive Committee.

Eric W. Nelson (D.Phil., Oxford University) is a professor of history at Missouri State University. He is an experienced teacher who has won a number of awards, including the Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011 and the CASE and Carnegie Foundation fo

Ways of the World for the AP® World History Modern Course Since 1200 C.E.

Ways of the World for the AP World History Modern Course 5e

Contents

PERIOD 1 Diversity and Interaction in the World of 1200–1450
The Big Picture 1200: Jumping into the Stream of World History
Landmarks in World History
Understanding AP Themes in Period 1

CHAPTER 1 Before 1200: Patterns in World History
From the Paleolithic Era to the Age of Agriculture
Landmarks for Chapter 1
CONTROVERSIES Debating the Timescales of History
Civilizations
Civilizations and the Environment
Comparing Civilizations
THEN AND NOW Patriarchy

Civilizations and Cultural Traditions
South Asian Cultural Traditions: Hinduism
South Asian Cultural Traditions: Buddhism
Chinese Cultural Traditions: Confucianism
Chinese Cultural Traditions: Daoism
Middle Eastern Cultural Traditions: Judaism and Christianity
Middle Eastern Cultural Traditions: Islam
ZOOMING IN Perpetua, Christian Martyr

Interactions and Encounters
Conclusions and Reflections: Religion and Historians
Chapter Review
AP® Key Terms
Finding the Main Point
AP® Big Picture Questions

AP® SKILLS WORKSHOP Developments

Ways of the World: A Brief Global History, Value Edition, Volume 1

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-12.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 12-23.

NOTE: Achieve for Ways of the World 5e includes additional activities and assessments for the book content. Along with the interactive e-books for the comprehensive edition with special features and primary and secondary sources and the companion source reader, Achieve provides quizzes for the source features in the book and the documents in the companion reader, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, study and writing skills tutorials, and a variety of autograded exercises that help students develop their historical thinking skills. Many of these resources are set up for quick use in the pre-built courses in Achieve, which can be customized easily, and Achieve also allows instructors to create quiz questions and upload their own documents. The table of contents here reflects only what appears in the Value Edition.

Preface
Versions and Supplements
Working with Primary Sources
Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History

PART 1 First Things First: Beginnings in