{"id":136832,"date":"2018-06-24T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T20:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136832"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T00:35:35","slug":"when-the-world-began-ad-1450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/24\/when-the-world-began-ad-1450.html","title":{"rendered":"When the World Began: AD 1450"},"content":{"rendered":"

The College Board — which runs the Advanced Placement exams, including AP World History — is concerned that the latter covers too much stuff. (Or, as Emperor Joseph II says in Amadeus,<\/i> "Too many notes.") And, yeah, I can see their concern. A good deep dive into world history takes a while to do.<\/p>\n

But their solution — "So, hey, we won't test on anything before AD1450" is … well … kind of dumb.<\/p>\n

The problem is that schools teach to the test. If your AP World History exam starts in 1450, that impacts not just that AP World History class, but all history classes. It also implies that only at that point does "important" history come up.<\/p>\n

"Oh, that's okay," the College Board says, "We'll design two<\/i> AP World History classes — one starting from 660 BC up to AD 1450, the second from AD 1450 onward. We'll just test on the second one." <\/p>\n

Um, yeah. Because everyone will clamor to take that first class — or, if somehow, it's required, that they'll study all that earlier stuff — Rome, Greece, Egypt, not to mention ongoing also-important stuff in Asia and the Americas and Africa — just as diligently.<\/p>\n

And that leaves aside that AD 1450 marks the point where Europe starts conquering the world, which doesn't at all distort the history of the world, nosirree.<\/p>\n

Like I said, I get it — covering thousands of years of world history isn't easy. But that's world history, intrinsically. Creating some point before which we'll stay, "Stuff happened, but don't worry about it, we won't be testing you on it" is the simplest way to solve it. It's also the most simplistic,<\/i> and the least helpful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe College Board wants to cut thousands of years from its AP World History test. Teachers aren’t having it.<\/a><\/span>
\n(CNN) — If you ask the company that runs the Advanced Placement tests, it’ll say it was trying to do world history teachers a favor.<\/p>\n

There’s just too much history to cover and not enough time. So why not cut thousands of years from the AP World History test — and start at the year 1450 instead?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The College Board — which runs the Advanced Placement exams, including AP World History — is concerned that the latter covers too much stuff. (Or, as Emperor Joseph II says in Amadeus, "Too many notes.") And, yeah, I can see their concern. A good deep dive into world history takes a while to do. 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