According to the College Board's Course and Exam Description, "A fitting test of overall student understanding could be to ask students to identify the most significant developments within each theme as it applies to each period of the course" (p. 106). With that in mind, the following activity uses digital timelines to review thematic content across the six time periods of the course. It is intended as a review, not as an exhaustive compendium of content. Each theme is broken down into a few salient topics to better focus the review. 

Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment 
Migrations Digital Timeline
Tools, Disease, and the Environment Digital Timeline

 

 

   
Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures 
Belief Systems Digital Timeline
Cultural Exchanges and Syncretism Digital Timeline

 

 

   
Theme 3: State Building, Expansion and Conflict 
Political Forms and State-Building Digital Timeline
Expansion and Political Legitimization Digital Timeline




Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems 
Economic Production and Labor Systems Digital Timeline
Networks of Communication and Exchange Digital Timeline

 

 

Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures 
Social Structures and Transformations Digital Timeline
Gender Structures Digital Timeline