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AP World History Unit 9 Practice Test: Globalization
Unit 9 covers how the world became more connected after 1900: new technologies in communication, transport and medicine, debates about the environment, the spread of free-market economics, movements for rights and reform, a global popular culture, and new international organisations.
- Exam weighting:
- 8–10%
- Questions:
- 16 multiple choice
- Time:
- about 16 minutes
- Cost:
- Free, no sign-up
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What AP World History Unit 9 covers
Unit 9, Globalization, makes up 8–10% of the multiple-choice section and usually takes ~8–11 class periods. These are the topics in the current course framework, and every question in the test above is tagged with one of them.
- 9.1Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900
- 9.2Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease
- 9.3Technological Advances: Debates About the Environment After 1900
- 9.4Economics in the Global Age
- 9.5Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900
- 9.6Globalized Culture After 1900
- 9.7Resistance to Globalization After 1900
- 9.8Institutions Developing in a Globalized World
- 9.9Continuity and Change in a Globalized World
Unit 9 key ideas
Technology connected and changed lives
Radio, air travel, the internet and mobile phones shrank distances. The Green Revolution raised crop yields, and vaccines and antibiotics increased life expectancy, though new diseases such as HIV/AIDS spread.
Growth strained the environment
Population growth and industry increased pollution, deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, leading to debates about climate change and international agreements.
Economies became more global
Many states moved toward free-market policies, such as Deng Xiaoping's reforms in China and policies in Reagan's United States and Thatcher's Britain. Free trade agreements and transnational companies grew, and the Asian Tigers industrialised quickly.
Rights, culture and institutions spread
Movements for civil rights, women's rights and an end to apartheid used new ideas of human rights. Popular culture such as Bollywood and K-pop spread worldwide, and institutions such as the United Nations, the WTO and the European Union shaped global cooperation.
Common Unit 9 mistakes
- Saying globalisation only had positive effects; it also brought inequality, environmental harm and resistance.
- Mixing up the United Nations (international cooperation and peacekeeping) with the WTO (trade rules).
- Forgetting resistance to globalisation, such as protests against the WTO.
How to study this unit
- Learn one example of each theme: a technology, a disease, an environmental debate, an economic reform, a rights movement and an institution.
- Practise continuity and change: name one thing that changed and one that stayed the same since 1900.
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More AP World History: Modern practice tests
- Unit 1 · 8–10%The Global Tapestry
- Unit 2 · 8–10%Networks of Exchange
- Unit 3 · 12–15%Land-Based Empires
- Unit 4 · 12–15%Transoceanic Interconnections
- Unit 5 · 12–15%Revolutions
- Unit 6 · 12–15%Consequences of Industrialization
- Unit 7 · 8–10%Global Conflict
- Unit 8 · 8–10%Cold War and Decolonization
- Unit 9 · 8–10%Globalization
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