Medium Emphasis

World History: Age of Revolutions (1750-1914) 

• The causes and consequences of political revolutions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. 
• The causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, 1700-1850. 
• Patterns of nationalism, state-building, and social reform in Europe and the Americas, 1830-1914. 
• Patterns of global change in the era of Western military and economic domination, 1800-1914. 

World History: A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement (1900-1945) 

• The causes and global consequences of World War I. 
• The search for peace and stability in the 1920s and 1930s. 
• The causes and global consequences of World War II. 

World History: The 20th Century Since 1945: Promises and Paradoxes 

• How post-World War II reconstruction occurred, new international power relations took shape, and colonial empires broke up. 
• The search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world. 

Low Emphasis

• World History: The Beginnings of Human Society. 

• World History: Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral People (4000-1000 BCE). 

• World History: Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires (1000 BCE-300 CE). 

• World History: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions (1000-1500 CE). 

• World History: Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter (300-1000 CE). 

• World History: The Emergence of the First Global Age (1450-1770). 

From tasctest.com:

• The TASC test emphasizes the targets for social studies that appear most frequently on state standards for the specified domains, as indicated by the categories in the below “High Emphasis” category. 

• Concepts in the “Medium Emphasis” items will be fully assessed within the TASC test as well, though there will be fewer questions aligned to these standards. 

• The “Low Emphasis” category will have no more than one or two items on any given test.