AMSCO AP World History: Modern [1200-present]

by Amsco

Genres: School, History, Read For School, High School, Nonfiction

751 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

Reviews

[Sienna · Rating 1 out of 5]

there were no love triangles
the us and the soviet didn’t become enemies to lovers :(((

[Reese Watson · Rating 1 out of 5]

The amount of nights I’ve read this book curled up in a ball crying is beyond me. Although I love my beaten up beauty, Amy (my very own amsco book), I find that my back and brain are happy to set her down and say goodbye. This book has taught me many things, but I still say when in doubt mention enlightenment. Prior to this time period, I knew not of multinational corporations and Mansa Musa— I was a simple girl, with no historical smartness.

Amy, thank you. Thank you for the tears and your broken spine. Thank you for your fallen pages and ripped covers.

You are my worse demise and my greatest triumph.

[elise · Rating 1 out of 5]

i could re read this entire book again and yet i still don’t think i’d remember a single thing

[sarah سارة ꫂ᭪ · Rating 3 out of 5]

9-21-24

this thick hoe better help me pass the ap test

3-21-25

i guess i should try this thing called 'studying'

3-22-25

the wretched read is over! rate + updated review to come out when i take the ap test/receive my score
also heimler>this book so im using that to study instead

7-7-25

i only got a 4.
heimler's still on top tho.

[cameron · Rating 5 out of 5]

super cute fluffy ya novel! academic rivals to lovers between us and britain was adorbs :))

[Luci Kazaitis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a work of art. The perfect 8 month read. This book took all my free time away and had an astronomically beautiful amount of vocab. Amsco I will cherish you forever. You were the root of all my problems.

#covertocover

[avery :) · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book sucks. it’s ugly, it tears bc it’s paperback, and it’s heavy. wayyy too much information, I didn’t need half of that for the actual exam. thanks for the back pain, should’ve just watch Heimler’s History instead tbh 🥲

[vale · Rating 5 out of 5]

super enjoyable ya novel. if you're looking for something short and fluffy, this is the perf book for you :-) <3

[Sara Kate · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book will trick you into thinking:

A giant floppy paperback? don’t mind if I do!

SURPRISE DEATH DESTRUCTION AP WORLD HISTORY *fire rains from sky*

[svea mellor · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book is full of my tears of stress over this stupid ap world class
post exam: i got a 5

[maddie&#x1f48c; · Rating 1 out of 5]

after finishing my unit 9 notes i realized i learned a whole lotta nothing. rip to me for the ap test 😜

[lily · Rating 1 out of 5]

informative but traumatizing

[jane · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book was absolute assco

[Ella · Rating 1 out of 5]

I would like to meet the writers of this book and personally kick them where the sun don’t shine and then wack them over the head with this book. If that doesn’t tell you what the book is like, I don’t know what will.

[Ayla Whitney · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love a good slowburn romance enemies to lovers. WAR IS OVER!!!!!! Is it possible to give this book negative stars. Worst class I’ve ever taken in my life this class took YEARS off my life and I’ll be leaving this class with less sanity than I entered with

[binted bogos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peaked in the first 100 pages with champa rice. Only thing that kept me reading was my gpa.

[Vicky · Rating 2 out of 5]

spice rating: 🌶️🌶️

enemies to lovers, grumpy x sunshine, miscommunication between the USSR and the US was very enjoyable. very sad most of the spice was a fade to black except for when the ottoman and safavid empire did fuck during the Battle of Chaldiran. Overall very underwhelming.

[Vansh Nishchal · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very special for me. Once I ordered this book and started reading it, my grade in AP World History improved tremendously. I even took this book once on a vacation during the winter to study for AP World History. The content is explained in a straightforward manner and the practice questions help to reinforce the concepts. I can say with certainty that this book helped me earn an A in the class and a 5 on the AP exam. Keep in mind that this was also my first AP class.

[ceci · Rating 1 out of 5]

spice level nonexistent 💔 couldn’t even edge to this book

[Lucy Mausser · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished never again. This has been the best worst semester ever and I will never forget the pain but will definitely forget the material. Good luck to future me during the exam I don't think I'll make it. To my teacher, sorry for annoying the crap out of you. To my trusty book, sorry for beating you up. To my brain, you weren't there in the first place. Although there are many people and things to thank, the real champion of this course was... CHAMPA RICE. May you forever grow. 🕊️


SPECIAL MENTION:

Thank you to Heimler for the all the information needed to cram into my nonexistent brain folds before tests. Thank you for also being there for me when I was having mental breakdowns about DBQs. May the champa be with you.

Thank you to my smarter friends who carried me through this course and spent time with my craziness yapping about the weirdest stuff, singing made up songs, and holding a teachers conference in a Davannis party room.

EDIT:

The exam is this Thursday... I'm so nervous omg 🤦‍♀️ I am not excited to sit in a cafeteria for 4 1/2 hours in complete silence, only hearing clicking keyboards and silent tears. Personally I will be crying...

EDIT AGAIN:

I did in fact get a 5!! Subtle flex but I have no idea how that magically happened... Me and my friends are ALL academic ottoman empires before their decline (iykyk wink wink)! Praying for APUSH to go well...

[Trista Walter · Rating 3 out of 5]

I want to read fanfiction about Akbar the Great x reader

This book was pretty educational I guess and I did in fact read all of it and get a five on the exam so thanks AMSCO pookie. Five star book but if I start seeing this john up there next to evelyn hugo and T3 (both of them) I might have an aneurysm so that's why I gave it 3

[Raghad ElBashir · Rating 1 out of 5]

honestly awful. repeats itself so many times and is just so bland. also it’s like super western / colonial oriented which is funny bc this course was created to diversify AP history classes. the class was fun tho!

[kadence ✩‧₊˚]

im done with this. only sheer luck will get me through this exam

[Kate Chira · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m done. This book is done. Nope nuh uh.

[Sean Bessard · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book made me cry so many times. The writing surrounding the early settlements was so beautiful an- I HATE THIS BOOK SO MUCH. APWH IS SO HARD AND IVE LOST SO MUCH SLEEP TO THIS BOOK 😭

[marta · Rating 1 out of 5]

burn it

[Ian · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is difficult to summarize without basically writing a whole other book, so I'll try to keep this down to the bare essentials. The author relies heavily on the shifting perspectives from character to character in order to first establish each character and their motivations and then show how that motivation changes throughout the interactions between each character. I personally think that this is a great choice, as it allows the author to explore each character in greater detail. However, it does mean that the book is more of a slow burn, without much interesting happening until the later acts. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it means that a lot of ideas are set early in the story and pay off well later, however, it does make that first part of the book really tough to get through if you aren't accustomed to longer and slower stories. Later in the book, the numerous Chekhov's Guns set in the first act are paid off, but it takes a very long time for that to happen. Again, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it allows for more buildup, but it does contribute more to a very slow read. The one major criticism I have is the pedantic nature of the storytelling. Unimportant details, such as the names of characters that are never brought up again, or a setting where a single inconsequential battle occured, are mentioned so unbelievably often. This wouldn't usually bother me if it weren't for the fact that the book already progresses at a slow pace. I'm all for detailed worldbuilding, especially in a setting so complex as this, but at a certain point, it stops becoming worldbuilding and starts to become exessive information for the sake of it, which I can't stand. It's a great book, and you can tell there's some real passion put behind it, but the author definitely got a bit too carried away with the level of detail included, leading to a slow pace that feels almost impossible to get through at times.

[sara kate :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

after a long almost 9 months, i have finished the lovely AMSCO ap world textbook (which carried through a lot of my ap tests)

hoping this book will lead to my success but no matter what, i did learn a lot

[lindsay :) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I feel I’ll prepared still

[nis_boooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

straight up gonna start counting textbooks bc i didn't finish this entire book for nothing 😭✌️

edit: ayy, got a 5, im such a genius fr