Authentic Part I format: a stimulus (quote, document, headline, map, or chart), one question, four choices, and a written explanation for every choice. Items are modeled on the June 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Regents — cross-reference on JMAP.org. Currently 38 questions across all ten units.
c. 1750
Belief systems, the Asian-centered world, absolutism, mercantilism, and the Atlantic trade — the baseline for everything that follows.
1543 – 1871
Scientific Revolution → Enlightenment → American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions → Napoleon → Italian & German unification.
1750 – 1914
Why Britain first, key inventions, factory life, new classes, capitalism vs. socialism vs. communism, reform movements, and the global spread including Meiji Japan.
1750 – 1914
Motives of the New Imperialism, the Scramble for Africa, British India and the Sepoy Mutiny, China's Century of Humiliation, and resistance movements worldwide.
1914 – 1945
WWI (MAIN causes, Sarajevo, Versailles) → Russian Revolution → interwar totalitarianism (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin) → WWII → the Holocaust → the atomic bombs.
1945 – 1991
Yalta/Potsdam, Iron Curtain, containment, Chinese Revolution, Korea, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, proxy wars, Gorbachev, and the fall of the USSR.
1945 – 1994
End of European empires: Gandhi and Indian independence/partition, founding of Israel and Arab–Israeli wars, African decolonization, apartheid and Mandela, the Iranian Revolution, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
1920s – present
Modernization vs. tradition: the Iranian Revolution (Shah's White Revolution, Khomeini, Islamic Republic), Atatürk's Turkey, Mao/Deng China, Hindu nationalism, Saudi Arabia, and global religious fundamentalism.
1991 – present
Post-Cold War integration: WTO/NAFTA/EU, the rise of China, the internet and smartphones, climate change (Kyoto/Paris), migration, 9/11, the 2008 crisis, COVID-19, populism, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
1915 – present
Capstone unit: the 1948 Genocide Convention's strict legal definition, the four canonical genocides (Armenian, Holocaust, Cambodian, Rwandan), Bosnia/Srebrenica, and contemporary cases — Darfur, Rohingya, Uyghurs, Syria — plus the international response trajectory from Nuremberg → UDHR → ICTY/ICTR → ICC → R2P.