AP World History is the equivalent of a college-level survey course in world history. Like college students, you are expected to read the assigned pages in the textbook and take notes on lectures and discussions provided by the teacher. In designing this course, the College Board aimed to help you gain the higher-order thinking skills you will need to be successful in college. These historical thinking skills include Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence (including historical argumentation and the use of appropriate use of relevant historical evidence), Chronological Reasoning (including historical causation, patterns of continuity and change over time and periodization), Comparison and Contextualization (including comparison and contextualization) and Historical Interpretation (including and Synthesis (including interpretation and synthesis).