Ways of the World with Sources: For the AP® Course

Fourth Edition | ©2019 Robert W. Strayer; Eric W. Nelson

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.

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.

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

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.

Features that prepare students for success!

• Thematic, comparative, and truly global. Brief by design, Ways of the World avoids the overwhelming details and instead emphasizes major developments, modeling the kind of historical thinking that is at the core of the AP® course. Broad themes include global commerce, the emergence of major religious traditions, industrialization, the rise and fall of totalitarian systems, technological innovations, and human impact on the environment. Part-opening essays set the stage for the chapters that follow and encourage students to make connections among the worlds cultures.
• NEW! AP® Skills Workshops. From sourcing a primary document to developing a continuity and change argument, these fifteen AP® Skills Workshops introduce and develop essential AP® skills in-context. Each workshop includes a practical explanation, models from real historians, insider info on how the skill will be tested on the exam, and scaffolded practice exercises to build the skill. Workshops include:
• Claims
• Evidence
• Comparison
• Contextualization
• Causation
• Continuity and Change
• Short-Answer Questions
• Primary Sources – Sourcing
• Primary Sources – Content
• Secondary Sources
• Writing a Historical Argument
• Writing a Comparative Argument
• Writing a Continuity and Change Argument
• Writing a Causation Argument
• Quantitative Data

• UPDATED! Integrated AP® Skills Questions. For steady practice of AP® skills throughout the course and in context, this edition has a wealth of marginal AP® skills questions in every chapter, including questions on causation, comparison, continuity and change, contextualization, analyzing evidence, and argument development. In addition, in order to support the analysis of visual evidence such as art, maps, and displays of data, every image in the book is accompanied by an analytical AP® skills-based question.
• EXPANDED! More AP® Exam Practice . For this edition of Ways of the World , we have included AP® exam practice after every chapter and part, including multiple-choice and short-answer questions following every chapter, and long-essay and document-based questions after every part.
• NEW! DBQ-Aligned Working with Evidence Feature . For this edition, we worked with an expert in the AP® course to align the Working with Evidence feature closely to the skills needed on the DBQ. Textual and visual sources are now blended in each section, to more closely resemble the types of evidence provided on the DBQ. To aid young readers, longer text sources have been broken into shorter sections, and are followed by questions to build understanding. In addition, AP® Analyzing Historical Evidence questions follow each source, giving students practice in the type of analysis found on the DBQ. Finally, every section ends with an AP® Using Sources to Develop an Argument prompt that simulates the task on the DBQ.
• NEW! Practice in Analyzing Secondary Sources. The Historians Voices feature in every chapter gives students consistent practice working with analyzing secondary sources. This feature includes two paired voices, usually with different viewpoints on an issue, along with questions to help guide student analysis.
• Improved Chapter Review. The Chapter Review at the end of each chapter’s narrative has been revised with the AP® course and student in mind. The Key Terms list helps students review, while the Big Picture questions encourage understanding and exploration of the chapter material. A NEW! Making Connections question this edition asks students to apply historical thinking skills across chapters.
• NEW! Digging Deeper boxes help bring the book into even closer alignment with the AP® course by adding brief discussions of course concepts related to the book’s narrative.
  
• Snapshot boxes offer visual displays of information on a theme, region, or time period. These features often include quantitative data for practice analyzing that challenging form of evidence.
• Modeling Real Historical Arguments. Two features in this edition aim to give students a glimpse behind the curtain and into the conversations on-going in the field of history. At the end of each chapter, a short Reflections section raises provocative, thought-provoking questions about the role of the historian in shaping the human story. NEW! Controversies essays highlight debates about key historical issues: the beginnings of history, the origins of major religious traditions, the nature of empires, the idea of the Atlantic World, the Industrial Revolution, and the concept of globalization. Through these features, students experience first-hand the process of reading historical evidence and making historical arguments.
• "Zooming In" features link specific people, places, and events to big themes in world history . One "Zooming In" feature in every chapter calls attention to particular people, places, and events, situating them in a larger global context. Topics include Göbekli Tepe and monumental construction before agriculture, Trung Trac and resistance to the Chinese Empire, gunpowder, the end of the Byzantine Empire, feminism and nationalism in Java, the Cuban Revolution, and many more.
  

New to This Edition

"Robert Strayer has found a magical sweetspot between being concise and inclusive, between presenting world history and engaging students, and between originality and comfort. The on-line version has a suite of ancillaries that are very useful to students and teachers alike. I regularly utilized features such as Learning Curve, editable quizzes and test banks, document and historical reading practice and associated space for student response, timeline activities, powerpoints, chapter outlines and more. At the end of the year I surveyed my students on satisfaction and found it paralleled mine. In short, this is a refreshingly engaging pedagogical suite, not "just" a text."

- Edward Walsh, Lancaster High School, NY

"I am impressed with the visual sources and document analysis sections. Those will be so helpful with the redesigned course."

- Paula DSpain, McKinney ISD, TX

"I love the book. Very impressed with its connections to both the content standards as well as the thematic standards."

- Jason Carter, Fairbanks High School, OH

"I like the documents within the book. I had previously been using a separate documents book for primary sources."

- Paul Hoelscher, Clayton Schools, MO

"I LOVE how the book is organized to match the AP® Periodization. This makes the breaks between time periods very clear for me as a teacher and for students as well. The Guided Reading Questions in the margins give students indications of what they should be looking for as they read. These can easily be typed up by a teacher and turned into a Guided Reading handout for students. (Easy way to implement modifications for diverse learners.) AP® Exam Tips are well organized around how students need to connect information and the skills they need for the Exam. Especially the ones pertaining to essay writing. Big Picture Questions at the end of the chapters are well aligned with AP® Themes and requires students to look at the overarching themes. Working with Evidence Sources: It is great that the sources are short and come with effective skills based questions. I also love that Visual Sources are also included."

- Tyronne Shaw, McKinley Technology High School, Washington DC

"Oh my goodness, I’ve been exploring the teacher ancillaries associated with Ways of the World, 4e: SIMPLY AMAZING! I really enjoy the new interface and how the e-book functions as it progresses throughout the chapters. You guys have included so much and the templates are super user-friendly! I am loving this book!"

-Sara C. Anderson, Azle High School, TX

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Ways of the World with Sources: For the AP® Course

Fourth Edition | ©2019

Robert W. Strayer; Eric W. Nelson

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Ways of the World with Sources: For the AP® Course

Fourth Edition | 2019

Robert W. Strayer; Eric W. Nelson

Table of Contents

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Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History

PART ONE First Things First: Beginnings in History, to 600 b.c.e.
1. First Peoples; First Farmers: Most of History in a Single Chapter, to 3500 b.c.e.
2. First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 b.c.e.–600 b.c.e.

PART TWO Continuity and Change in the Second-Wave Era, 600 b.c.e.–600 c.e.
3 . State and Empire in Eurasia/North Africa, 600 b.c.e.–600 c.e.
4. Culture and Religion in Eurasia/North Africa, 600 b.c.e.–600 c.e.
5. Society and Inequality in Eurasia/North Africa, 600 b.c.e.–600 c.e.
6. Commonalities and Variations: Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania, 600 b.c.e.–1200 c.e.

PART THREE Civilizations and Encounters during the Third-Wave Era, 600–1450
7. Commerce and Culture, 600–1450
8. China and the World: East Asian Connections, 600–1300
9 . The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections, 600–1450
10 . The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction, Expansion, and Division, 600–1450
11. Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment, 1200–1450
12. The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century

PART FOUR The Early Modern World, 1450–1750
13. Political Transformations: Empires and Encounters, 1450–1750
14 . Economic Transformations: Commerce and Consequence, 1450–1750
15. Cultural Transformations: Religion and Science, 1450–1750

PART FIVE The European Moment in World History, 1750–1900
16. Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes, 1750–1900
17 . Revolutions of Industrialization, 1750–1900
18. Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania, 1750–1950
19. Empires in Collision: Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, 1800–1900

PART SIX The Most Recent Century, 1900–present
20. Milestones of the Past Century: War and Revolution, 1900–1950
21. Milestones of the Past Century: A Changing Global
Landscape 1950-present
22. Global Processes: Technology, Economy, and Society
1900–present
23. Global Processes: Demography, Culture, and the
Environment 1900–present

Notes
Acknowledgments
Glossary/Glosario of Historical Terms
Glossary/Glosario of Academic Terms
Index

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Ways of the World with Sources: For the AP® Course

Fourth Edition | 2019

Robert W. Strayer; Eric W. Nelson