World History

About the Exam.

Part I. Subject area Reviews.

Pre-Civilization.

Agriculture and Technology.

The Emergence of Civilization.

Classical Civilizations.

Belief Systems from Their Inception to 600 CE.

The Late Classical Period: 200 -600 CE.

A Question of Time.

The Islamic World.

First Steps toward Globaization: Positives and Negatives.

From T'ang to Ming China: Perfecting Ssociety and Culture.

Western Europe after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The Amerindian World.

Demographics and Environment.

Shifts in Time.

Trade, Technology, and Global Interactions.

Empires.

Slave Systems and the Slave Trade.

Demographic and Environmental Changes.

Cultural and Intellectual Developments.

1750 to 1914: From Enlightenment to the Modern World.

Global Commerce, Communications, Technology, and World Trade.

Demographics and the Environmrnt.

Social Change: 1750 -1914.

Revolutions, Reform, and Democracy.

Globalization and the Rise of the West.

Time, Structure, and Demographics Since 1914.

World War I, World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War.

Patterns of Nationalism.

The Global Economy.

New Forms of Social Struggle and Revolution.

Social Reforms and Social Revolutions.

Globalization of Technology and Culture.

Demographic Changes and the Environment in the Wake of Globalization.

Part II: Three Full-Length Practice Tests.

Practice Test 1.

Practice Test 2.

Practice Test 3.