--- title: "AP World History AMSCO Guided Notes" description: "AP World History AMSCO Guided Notes: 74 chapter & topic sets · PDFs + Word. Buy once and keep your files. Downloads are also included with a paid Fiveable membership." canonical: "https://fiveable.me/shop/ap-world-amsco-guided-notes" type: "shop" subject: "AP World History" lastUpdated: "2026-09-15" --- # AP World History AMSCO Guided Notes ## About this resource Work through your AMSCO reading with focused questions and space to explain key ideas. Choose a printable or editable format for independent study, homework, or classroom discussion. Suggested answers are included for checking understanding and adapting lessons. The textbook is sold separately. This is a packaged downloadable resource; a purchase does not grant subscription access or exclusive access to all related online content. ## Price and contents $24.00 USD. One-time purchase. 74 chapter & topic sets · PDFs + Word ## Included files - Student PDF with answer space - Compact student PDF - Editable student Word files (.docx) - Answer-key PDF - Editable answer-key Word files (.docx) - Combined student and answer-key PDFs ## Textbook compatibility AMSCO Advanced Placement World History: Modern (1200-Present), 2nd Edition. Textbook sold separately. ## Coverage ### Unit 0 - 0.1: Human Development to 600 B.C.E. - 0.2: The Classical Era, c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E. - 0.3: Postclassical Civilizations, c. 600 C.E. to 1200 C.E. ### Unit 1 - 1.1: Developments in East Asia - 1.2: Developments in Dar al-Islam - 1.3: Developments in South and Southeast Asia - 1.4: Developments in the Americas - 1.5: Developments in Africa - 1.6: Developments in Europe - 1.7: Comparison in the Period from c. 1200 to c. 1450 ### Unit 2 - 2.1: The Silk Roads - 2.2: The Mongol Empire and the Modern World - 2.3: Exchange in the Indian Ocean - 2.4: Trans-Saharan Trade Routes - 2.5: Cultural Consequences of Connectivity - 2.6: Environmental Consequences of Connectivity - 2.7: Comparison of Economic Exchange ### Unit 3 - 3.1: European, East Asian, and Gunpowder Empires Expand - 3.2: Empires: Administrations - 3.3: Empires: Belief Systems - 3.4: Comparison in Land-Based Empires ### Unit 4 - 4.1: Technological Innovations - 4.2: Exploration: Causes and Events - 4.3: Columbian Exchange - 4.4: Maritime Empires Link Regions - 4.5: Maritime Empires Develop - 4.6: Internal and External Challenges to State Power - 4.7: Changing Social Hierarchies - 4.8: Continuity and Change from c. 1450 to c. 1750 ### Unit 5 - 5.1: The Enlightenment - 5.2: Nationalism and Revolutions - 5.3: Industrial Revolution Begins - 5.4: Industrialization Spreads - 5.5: Technology in the Industrial Age - 5.6: Industrialization: Government's Role - 5.7: Economic Developments and Innovations - 5.8: Reactions to the Industrial Economy - 5.9: Society and the Industrial Age - 5.10: Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age ### Unit 6 - 6.1: Rationales for Imperialism - 6.2: State Expansion - 6.3: Indigenous Responses to State Expansion - 6.4: Global Economic Development - 6.5: Economic Imperialism - 6.6: Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World - 6.7: Effects of Migration - 6.8: Causation in the Imperial Age ### Unit 7 - 7.1: Shifting Power - 7.2: Causes of World War I - 7.3: Conducting World War I - 7.4: Economy in the Interwar Period - 7.5: Unresolved Tensions After World War I - 7.6: Causes of World War II - 7.7: Conducting World War II - 7.8: Mass Atrocities - 7.9: Causation in Global Conflict ### Unit 8 - 8.1: Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization - 8.2: The Cold War - 8.3: Effects of the Cold War - 8.4: Spread of Communism after 1900 - 8.5: Decolonization after 1900 - 8.6: Newly Independent States - 8.7: Global Resistance to Established Power Structures - 8.8: End of the Cold War - 8.9: Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization ### Unit 9 - 9.1: Advances in Technology and Exchange - 9.2: Technological Advancements and Limitations-Disease - 9.3: Technology and the Environment - 9.4: Economics in the Global Age - 9.5: Calls for Reform and Responses - 9.6: Globalized Culture - 9.7: Resistance to Globalization - 9.8: Institutions Developing in a Globalized World - 9.9: Continuity and Change in a Globalized World ## Preview and download [View samples and download options](/shop/ap-world-amsco-guided-notes) Version: 2026-09-15. 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