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AP Exams Online Prep & Review

AP World History Exam

May 17 is the big day. Are you ready?

Nothing good on TV? Welcome to the wonderful world of, um, World History. Shmoop's AP World History guide shows you why "revolution" is a dirty word, what exactly was happening behind closed portholes on the HMS Beagle, and—of course—how to kick butt on the AP exam.

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What's inside our Online AP World History Prep Course?

  • Test Taking Tips Specifically designed tips for mastering AP World History. Learn about things that happened before humans invented the wheel, how to "craft a historical argument" without getting belligerent, and why you should save U.S. history for that other AP test.

  • Three Full-Length Practice Exams Curious about what it is really like to answer 70 multiple-choice questions in 55 minutes and answer 3 free response problems in another 130? Take a full-length practice exam with Shmoop...and then take another one. Because we have three.

  • Practice DrillsIf you forget everything you read approximately three seconds after you read it, never fear: refine your mad world history skills with drills, more drills, and—you guessed it—even more drills.

  • Extreme Topic Review (for the extreme student). Check out our in-depth study guide and practice problems galore on each of the topics below:

  • Beginning of Time to 600 BCE
  • 600 BCE to 600 CE
  • 600 CE to 1450
  • 1450 to 1750
  • 1750-1900
  • 1900-Present
  • Humans and the Environment
  • Culture
  • State-Building
  • Economic Systems
  • Social Structures