With so much material to cover in one year, it is important for you to understand all of the topics being taught. Here are some helpful websites that focus on main concepts covered in World History, in the form of GAMES and INTERACTIVE NOTES :)
This website provides a list of all the KEY CONCEPTS covered in WHAP, along with a bulleted list of IMPORTANT NOTES for each of the topics. Key concepts are crucial to understand for this course because the questions on the AP Exam are crafted around these concepts.
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This website has a list of QUIZZES related to World History which you can take to test your knowledge. The quizzes are split into different time PERIODS, the same way the units are split in the curriculum for WHAP, so it is easy for you to check how much you know about specific time periods and topics.
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This website combines UNITS from World History into a fun game of JEOPARDY. You can test yourself on what you have understood in the course, while having fun reviewing the material.
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This website takes you to a map of the world, which will help you review the locations of MAJOR CIVILIZATIONS and TRADE ROUTES in World History. On the left side of the map, there are lists of important topics such as civilizations, trade routes, major cities, and conquest routes, which you can click on to get a visual depiction of where major events and places were.
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This website is extremely beneficial if you are having trouble keeping track of civilizations and events in chronological order. The site shows all civilizations and empires/dynasties organized by date, and splits them up depending on the different time periods and regions in World History. It even provides notes about each civilization at the bottom in case you are confused or forgot about one of them! Even though it is not important to memorize tons of dates for this course, you do have to know the order in which civilizations and major events that have occurred, which can be reviewed easily with this site.
The second website takes you to a simple animated timeline of the spread of world religions. Religions appear frequently on quizzes, tests, and the AP exam, so it is important to know them by heart! (The units for dates appear in B.C. and A.D.; make sure you know B.C. = B.C.E. and A.D. = B.C.)
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This interactive website made by The New York Times shows you how immigrants settled in the US over time and where each country's population settled in the US. This is a great tool for you to learn about not only the diverse ethnicity of people we have in the US but also what immigration movements look like on a map.
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Experience in 3D the life of WWI soldiers who lived in trenches. Through this website and 3D simulation, you get to experience the tight and horrifying living quarters a WWI trench soldier had to live in. There is also a Colosseum 3D simulation on the most left side of the tabs. There, you can also experience the astonishing yet quite scary experience of a Roman inside the Colosseum's famous games.
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