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The Brain Sculptor: How to Own Your Learning
Learning science • Beat the illusion of mastery • Fix your study habits
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Unit 1
The Global Tapestry
c. 1200–c. 1450
Concurrent with Unit 2
State-building and belief systems across a still-unconnected world.
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Unit 2
Networks of Exchange
c. 1200–c. 1450
Concurrent with Unit 1
The Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Mongols knit Afro-Eurasia together.
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Unit 3
Land-Based Empires
c. 1450–c. 1750
Concurrent with Unit 4
Gunpowder empires and the contest for political legitimacy.
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Unit 4
Transoceanic Interconnections
c. 1450–c. 1750
Concurrent with Unit 3
Ocean routes, the Columbian Exchange, and a reordered world.
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Unit 5
Revolutions
c. 1750–c. 1900
Concurrent with Unit 6
Enlightenment ideas, Atlantic revolutions, and industrial upheaval.
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Unit 6
Consequences of Industrialization
c. 1750–c. 1900
Concurrent with Unit 5
Imperial expansion, resistance, and mass migration.
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Unit 7
Global Conflict
c. 1900–Present
Concurrent with Unit 9
Two world wars, economic collapse, and total war.
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Unit 8
Cold War & Decolonization
c. 1945–Present
Superpower rivalry, proxy wars, and the end of empire.
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Unit 9
Globalization
c. 1900–Present
Concurrent with Unit 7
Technology, economy, and culture in one interconnected world.
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Full Course
AP Review — Course Narrative
Fill-in-the-blank course narrative • Linked AP Review sources • Units 1–9
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MCQ Skills
Attack the Stimulus MCQ
A 4-step method • Worked from the real tests • Units 2-8
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