Advanced World History: Modern homeschool curriculum.
Your student studies modern world history across regions, from empire and industrialization to conflict and globalization.
A personalized lesson from the course
A commodity or technology can connect distant places while distributing profit, labor, risk, and cultural change unevenly along the route.
- Lesson
- One Commodity, Many Worlds
- Goal
- Trace one object or idea across regions and explain how exchange changed meaning and power in each place.
How a lesson works
An 11-minute reading
This example lesson comes from the unit on networks, exchange, empire, and historical causation. It moves from “Routes carry more than goods” to “Connection and inequality can coexist” and builds to one idea: global connection is never only movement; it is a rearrangement of relationships along the path.
Help inside the reading
Any line of “One Commodity, Many Worlds” can go to our Always-On Mentor: your child highlights it to ask a question, and the mentor can draw the idea step by step on its board or, after a missed answer, explain it another way.
A check halfway through
Your child answers “Why is mapping a commodity route not enough for a world-history argument?” before reading on, and the Reading Check at the end asks new questions.
A project your child hands in
Trace one commodity, technology, belief, or migration route across three regions and historical moments.
- Task
- Explain how its meaning and power relationship changed with place
- Hand in
- Annotated route map and 700-word global-history argument
Arguments backed by evidence
Each lesson joins one regional case, one comparison, a source set, and concise historical writing. Advanced World History: Modern runs through 20 units and 120 skills, starting with the global tapestry, networks of exchange, and land-based empires.
- Cross-regional comparison maps
- Document-based source sets
- Causation, continuity, and change arguments
Units and skills
Advanced World History: Modern20 units · 120 skills
The global tapestry6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in The global tapestry
- Source and situate historical evidence related to The global tapestry
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about The global tapestry
- Contextualize The global tapestry within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving The global tapestry
- Construct and support a historical argument about The global tapestry
Networks of exchange6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Networks of exchange
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Networks of exchange
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Networks of exchange
- Contextualize Networks of exchange within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Networks of exchange
- Construct and support a historical argument about Networks of exchange
Land-based empires6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Land-based empires
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Land-based empires
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Land-based empires
- Contextualize Land-based empires within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Land-based empires
- Construct and support a historical argument about Land-based empires
Transoceanic interconnections6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Transoceanic interconnections
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Transoceanic interconnections
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Transoceanic interconnections
- Contextualize Transoceanic interconnections within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Transoceanic interconnections
- Construct and support a historical argument about Transoceanic interconnections
Revolutions6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Revolutions
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Revolutions
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Revolutions
- Contextualize Revolutions within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Revolutions
- Construct and support a historical argument about Revolutions
Consequences of industrialization6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Consequences of industrialization
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Consequences of industrialization
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Consequences of industrialization
- Contextualize Consequences of industrialization within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Consequences of industrialization
- Construct and support a historical argument about Consequences of industrialization
Global conflict6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Global conflict
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Global conflict
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Global conflict
- Contextualize Global conflict within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Global conflict
- Construct and support a historical argument about Global conflict
Cold War and decolonization6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Cold War and decolonization
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Cold War and decolonization
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Cold War and decolonization
- Contextualize Cold War and decolonization within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Cold War and decolonization
- Construct and support a historical argument about Cold War and decolonization
Globalization6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Globalization
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Globalization
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Globalization
- Contextualize Globalization within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Globalization
- Construct and support a historical argument about Globalization
Primary-source analysis6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Primary-source analysis
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Primary-source analysis
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Primary-source analysis
- Contextualize Primary-source analysis within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Primary-source analysis
- Construct and support a historical argument about Primary-source analysis
Document-based argument6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Document-based argument
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Document-based argument
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Document-based argument
- Contextualize Document-based argument within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Document-based argument
- Construct and support a historical argument about Document-based argument
Long historical argument6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Long historical argument
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Long historical argument
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Long historical argument
- Contextualize Long historical argument within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Long historical argument
- Construct and support a historical argument about Long historical argument
Source credibility and provenance6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Source credibility and provenance
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Source credibility and provenance
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Source credibility and provenance
- Contextualize Source credibility and provenance within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Source credibility and provenance
- Construct and support a historical argument about Source credibility and provenance
Claim, evidence, and reasoning6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Claim, evidence, and reasoning
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Claim, evidence, and reasoning
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Claim, evidence, and reasoning
- Contextualize Claim, evidence, and reasoning within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Claim, evidence, and reasoning
- Construct and support a historical argument about Claim, evidence, and reasoning
Counterargument and qualification6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Counterargument and qualification
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Counterargument and qualification
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Counterargument and qualification
- Contextualize Counterargument and qualification within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Counterargument and qualification
- Construct and support a historical argument about Counterargument and qualification
Drafting, conferencing, and revision6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Drafting, conferencing, and revision
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Drafting, conferencing, and revision
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Drafting, conferencing, and revision
- Contextualize Drafting, conferencing, and revision within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Drafting, conferencing, and revision
- Construct and support a historical argument about Drafting, conferencing, and revision
Timed evidence-based writing6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Timed evidence-based writing
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Timed evidence-based writing
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Timed evidence-based writing
- Contextualize Timed evidence-based writing within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Timed evidence-based writing
- Construct and support a historical argument about Timed evidence-based writing
Advanced World History: Modern cumulative assessment6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Advanced World History: Modern cumulative assessment
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Advanced World History: Modern cumulative assessment
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Advanced World History: Modern cumulative assessment
- Contextualize Advanced World History: Modern cumulative assessment within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Advanced World History: Modern cumulative assessment
- Construct and support a historical argument about Advanced World History: Modern cumulative assessment
Advanced World History: Modern exam-mode practice6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Advanced World History: Modern exam-mode practice
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Advanced World History: Modern exam-mode practice
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Advanced World History: Modern exam-mode practice
- Contextualize Advanced World History: Modern exam-mode practice within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Advanced World History: Modern exam-mode practice
- Construct and support a historical argument about Advanced World History: Modern exam-mode practice
Advanced World History: Modern reflection and transfer6 skills
- Explain historical developments and processes in Advanced World History: Modern reflection and transfer
- Source and situate historical evidence related to Advanced World History: Modern reflection and transfer
- Analyze claims and evidence in sources about Advanced World History: Modern reflection and transfer
- Contextualize Advanced World History: Modern reflection and transfer within broader historical developments
- Make historical connections involving Advanced World History: Modern reflection and transfer
- Construct and support a historical argument about Advanced World History: Modern reflection and transfer
Questions parents ask
How does Advanced World History: Modern prepare my student for AP World History: Modern?
- Advanced World History: Modern follows the AP World History: Modern framework unit by unit, as its skill tree shows. Your teen explains and applies the ideas in written responses and projects, so the work shows which skills are secure and which need more practice.
How does a homeschooler register for an AP exam?
- An AP coordinator at an AP-authorized local school arranges registration. Use College Board’s homeschool exam guidance to find a host school. That school sets its deadlines and outside-student policies; its coordinator orders the exam, collects fees, and tells your child where and when to test.
Which course title goes on a homeschool transcript?
- Advanced World History: Modern, not AP World History: Modern. The AP designation requires College Board Course Audit authorization of the course, which framework alignment does not give. We generate the transcript with that title, ready for you to sign as homeschool administrator.
How can AP scores earn college credit?
- Colleges award credit under their own AP score policies. College Board reports scores on a 1–5 scale, separately from our coursework grades; check the college’s required score and whether it grants credit, placement, or both.
Advanced World History: Modern, with the teaching and records handled
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