<p>Are these 2 courses similar? I know comparative studies the history and the government of world countries and obviously world history does too...i mean are they similar or what?</p>
<p>AP World History covers a really wide ranging time period including lots of early civilization stuff and gives you an overview of many different countries' histories.</p>
<p>AP Comp Gov't focuses on the governments of five or six (I don't remember exactly how many at the moment) countries with different systems of governments and focuses on comparing/contrasting things within each country.</p>
<p>I think they are both very different courses.</p>
<p>They're both history courses, for sure. World History is more centered around cultural interaction and the development of civilizations, important historical events such as wars/economic events. </p>
<p>Comparative Government is more focused on the way political systems work and examines 6 different governments of the world (Britain, China, Iran, Russia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria), their history and current situation and organization/functions </p>
<p>I'm taking Comparative Government now, done with Britain and China now, going on to Russia.</p>