A website intended for use by students currently taking AP World History. It aims to present the full content of the course in a digestible way, organized by time period, geography, and relevance to the AP exam.
- An interactive map which displays important events across the entire world during a certain time period. Zooming in should have a similar effect to google maps, where the level of detail of the information increases. A slider will control the time period.
- For each country, a separate section which explains its history categorized in several ways, generally combinations of time, theme, and relevance to the AP test Example: Song Dynasty 1200-1450
- Timeline (No Themes) Format (relevance determined by opacity, here shown by the smaller line size of the less important information because github doesn't allow specific colors):
- Paper before this time period
- 960: Begins, civil service exam grows in size continuously
- Early Song: Flying money used
- 11th century: Steel production begins, Champa rice introduced from Vietnam, moveable type from Korea
- 1127: Lost territory to the Jin; Southern Song period
- 1100s-1200s: Gunpowder weaponry starts to take hold
- No Time Format (relevance shown vertically, top elements most important to know):
| Environment | Government | Society | Culture | Technology | Economy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champa rice enabled rapid population growth. From Vietnam. | Civil service exam created an effective bureaucracy to carry out the emperor's will | Confucianism dictates strict hierarchical relationships, favoring elders and males. Footbinding purposefully disables women to make them dependent on males | Importance of makers like farmers, then craftsmen, then merchants | Proto-Industrial, huge amount of steel created using advanced techniques | Exported highly valuable goods such as porcelain and silk. Most-wanted products in many places |
| Under threat from the Jin Empire to the North, this pressure led their economy toward ruin as they were forced to spend on military | The scholar gentry were the highest class below aristocrats, and it was a sought-after position | Paper led to higher literacy and the success of the civil service exam | Gunpowder weaponry, catalyst for changes in other parts of the world | Somewhat open to trade, generally less interested in other nation's goods because theirs were higher quality | |
| Civil service exam technically allowed social mobility, although wealth provided an advantage | Confucianism the main ideology, Buddhism and Daoism smaller sects that are received poorly by the Confucian Bureaucracy |
Woodblock printing (based on Korean moveable type) alongside paper increased literacy | Flying money, beginning of transition away from barter economy |