Exam Preparation
- Cracking the AP World History Exam
Cracking the AP World History Exam reviews world history topics and includes two full-length practice AP World History tests.
- Memory and the Mediterranean
Braudel is one of the foremost “big picture” social historians in the world. This book covers the rise of the early civilizations (Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Egypt, Crete) through Greece and Rome, not from the standpoint of battles but in terms of the “ebb and flow of cultures.”
- Migrations in World History
This author, one of the leaders in the comparative World History movement, takes on a broad historical overview of human migration from prehistoric times to the present, including forced and voluntary migrations.
- The Illustrated World’s Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions
This book xplains the main tenets of each of the world’s major faiths/belief systems: Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Accompanying each section are short passages from religious texts, illustrating the points made by the author, who is one of the world’s foremost authorities on comparative religion.
- The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
- The Rise of the West won the National Book Award for history in 1964. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim.
