
Bentley, Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, AP Edition, ©2023, 7e
Grades: 9 - 12
Traditions & Encounters fully aligns to the AP World History: Modern Framework. AP features are integrated throughout both the text and digital resources to support teachers and students as they prepare for the AP Exam.
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Retaining the text's thematic perspective and informed by the most recent scholarship, Traditions & Encounters has been organized to reflect the chronological time periods, historical thinking skills, and reasoning processes in the AP Framework.
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Part 1: The Global Tapestry and Networks of Exchange (1200-1450)
Chapter 1: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
Chapter 2: The Expansive Realm of Islam
Chapter 3: India and the Indian Ocean Basin
Chapter 4: Eastern and Western Europe in the Early Medieval Period
Chapter 5: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
Chapter 6: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 7: The Increasing Integration of Europe with the Wider World
Chapter 8: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
Part 2: Land-Based Empires and Transoceanic Empires (1450-1750)
Chapter 9: Expanding Horizons of Cross-Cultural Interaction
Chapter 10: Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections
Chapter 11: The Transformation of Europe
Chapter 12: The Integration of the Americas and Oceania with the Wider World
Chapter 13: Africa and the Atlantic World
Chapter 14: Tradition and Change in East Asia
Chapter 15: Empires in the South and Southwest
Part 3: Revolutions and Consequences of Industrialization (1750-1900)
Chapter 16: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
Chapter 17: The Making of Industrial Society
Chapter 18: The Americas in the Age of Independence
Chapter 19: Societies at Crossroads
Chapter 20: The Apex of Global Empire Building
Part 4: Global Conflict, Cold War and Decolonization, and Globalization (1900 to present)
Chapter 21: The Great War: The World in Upheaval
Chapter 22: Anxieties and Experiments in Postwar Europe and the United States
Chapter 23: Revolutionaries and Nationalists in the Colonial and Neocolonial World
Chapter 24: New Conflagrations: World War II and the Cold War
Chapter 25: The End of Empire in an Era of Cold War
Chapter 26: Into the Twenty-First Century
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