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AP World History, Period 5: The Modern Era, 1750-1900

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1. Premium Resources:

The following Premium resources are available for this Period:

India: the British Raj: 1750 to 1900 CE

Looks at the rise of British rule in India, the nature of that rule, and its impact on Indian society.

Modern China: the Later Imperial Period: 1760-1901 CE

Covers the Opium Wars, the Taiping rebellion, The Self-Strengthening Movement, the Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer rebellion.

Modern Europe: 1750-1900 CE

Takes in the French Revolution and Napoleon, the Industrial Revolution, the 1848 revolutions, and the unification of Italy and Germany.

Teaching about Modern World using the TimeMap of World History

Suggestions on how to use the TimeMap of World History with your students.  They focus on using the free maps, but are equally relevant to the premium maps.

These suggestions are in addition to those offered in the teaching notes which accompany the other Premium resources.

Introduction

This page contains links to useful teaching and learning resources (maps and articles) within the Timemap of World History for AP World History, Period 5 (1750 CE to 1900 CE).

World

Maps:

For a global perspective on this period, see

World maps for 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

NB: the one major difference between the world map for 1789 (as in the Timemap of World History) and 1750 (as specified by the AP program) is that in 1750 the USA did not exist.

Articles:

Western Civilization – Has sections on this period, including the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the American Civil War, and more.

Europe

Maps:

For a birds-eye view of Europe during the early modern period, see:

Europe  1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

The above maps give access to the individual countries of Europe, but see especially:

  • Italy 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914 (the period of the Risorgimento, the uniting of Italy)
  • Spain and Portugal 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914 (a period of instability and weakness in both countries)
  • France 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914 (the French Revolution, Napoleon and after)
  • Britain 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914  (the rise of the first parliamentary democracy, the first industrial society, and the peak of the British Empire)
  • Russia 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914 (a great power with feet of clay)
  • Germany 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914  (the unification of Germany)
  • Eastern central Europe 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914 (a region under the rule of powerful neighbours)
  • Greece 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914 (Greece and the Balkans fight for freedom from the Ottoman Empire)
  • Scandinavia 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914 (pioneering modernity)

Articles:

Western civilization – Has sections on the French Revolution and Napoleon, the Industrial Revolution, political revolutions of the 19th century, and the rise of the world-wide European empires.

Modern Europe – from the French Revolution onwards

European World Empires looks at this period of European world domination

Imperial Russia includes the 19th century history of this giant nation

The Middle East

Maps:

For a broad perspective on the Middle East in this period, especially noteworthy for the expansion of the Ottoman Empire:

Middle East 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

Follow the links in these maps to the individual countries for more detail. Especially useful for the Ottoman empire and how its different parts experienced the advent of modernity:

  • Turkey 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914 (especially for internal developments within the Ottoman empire)
  • Syria 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914Iraq 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914
  • Egypt 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914
  • and Arabia 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914 (particularly interesting for the off-and-on emergence of the Saudi kingdom; also for the origins of the Gulf states)

Also useful is:

Iran 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914 (facing challenges from Russia and Britain)

Articles:

The Ottoman Empire – a short survey of the history of the Ottomans

Africa

Maps:

At present, the maps showing the whole of Africa are the best ones to go to. The regional texts are incomplete for West, East, Central and South Africa. The Africa-as-a-whole maps provide coverage of the end and aftermath of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the rise of European empires).

Africa 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

Article:

Awaiting an article on the Atlantic Slave Trade and its aftermath, and the spread of European empires on the continent. 

India

Maps:

For British India, see:

India and South Asia 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

Article:

British India – a very short entry, awaiting a full article on this important subject

East Asia

Maps:

For China at the time of the late Qing dynasty, see:

China 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

For more detail on neighbouring countries meeting the challenge from the West:

Japan (of the late Tokugawa and Meiji periods) 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

Korea (the “Hermit Kingdom”) 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

For a broader perspective on East Asia in this turbulent period, see:

East Asia 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

Articles:

Modern China – from the decline of Qing dynasty China onwards

Modern Japan– a very brief entry on the modern history of the country from Commodore Perry’s expedition onwards

Modern Korea – a very brief entry on the modern history of the country from the late 18th century onwards

South East Asia

Maps:

This rise of Western empires in SE Asia:

SE Asia 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

Oceania

Maps:

For the rise of Western empires in the region in Oceania:

Oceania 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

For the rise of European societies in Australasia:

Australia 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

New Zealand 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

The Americas

Maps:

South America: For the end late imperial period and Independence, see:

South America 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

For individual countries, see:

For Mexico and Central America (the Long Revolution), see:

Mexico and Central America 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

For the United States, the period of expansion, civil war, reconstruction and industrialisation, see:

USA 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

For the expansion of Canada and the working out of its position within the British Empire, see:

Canada 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

For North America as a whole:

North America 1789 – 1837  1871 – 1914

Articles:

Western Civilization – Includes sections on American history, such as the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the American Civil War, and so on.