Book+List

=AP World History Supplemental Book Lists= Below is a list of books that might be helpful. These books are not required.

Other AP World History Textbooks
There are 5 main textbooks approved for this course. Ours, Bentley is just 1 of the 5. Below are the other 4.

1. __Voyages in World History__ by Valerie hansen & Kenneth Curtis 2. __World Civilizations__ by Peter Stearns 3. __Ways of the World__ by Robert Strayer 4. __The World's History__ by Howard Spodek

Recommended Books (nonfiction)
__The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492__ by Alfred W. Crosby (2002) __Plagues and Peoples__ by William H. McNeil (1998) __Sweetness and power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History__ by Sidney Mintz (1986) __Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times__ by Jerry Bentley (1993) __The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialsims in the Nineteenth Century__ by Daniel Headrick (1981) __The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy__ by Kenneth Pomeranz (2001) __Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800__ by John Thornton (1998) __Peter the Great__ by Robert Massey (1986) __The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 200 Years__ by Bernard Lewis (1997) __Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century__ by Ross Dunn (2004) __The World and a Very Small Place in Affrica: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia__ by Donald Wright (2004) __The Mongols__ by David Morgan __King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa__ by Adam Hochschild (1999) __Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies__ by Jared Diamond (1999) __Salt: A World History__ by Mark Kurlansky (2003) __The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of World History__ by Robert McNeill (2003)

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