AP WORLD HISTORY EXAM REVIEW
2017 EXAM ADMINISTRATION
MAY 11, 2017
OPTIONAL
WHAP EXAM REVIEW
This review, completed IN FULL, and BY HAND,
submitted to your teacher (Conrad, Rivas, or Trcka)
the day OF or FOLLOWING the AP World History Exam
will be good for and additional test grade of 100%
(no reviews will be accepted after the deadline)
The AP World History course is structured around themes and concepts in six different chronological periods from approximately 8000 BCE to the present:
• Technological and Environmental Transformations (to c. 600 BCE)
• Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies (c. 600 BCE to c. 600 CE)
• Regional and Transregional Interactions (c. 600 CE to c. 1450)
• Global Interactions (c. 1450 to c. 1750)
• Industrialization and Global Integration (c. 1750 to c. 1900)
• Accelerating Global Change and Realignments (c. 1900 to the Present)
Within each period, key concepts organize and prioritize historical developments.
Themes allow students to make connections and identify patterns and trends over time.
Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations, to c. 600 B.C.E.
Locating world history in the environment and time
Describe how geography and climate interacted with the development of human society.
What marks the beginning of this time period and the end?
Development of agriculture and technology
Basic economic units describe
Agricultural
Pastoral
Foraging society
Demographic characteristics
Nature of village settlements
Impact of agriculture on environment
Stages of metal use
Civilizations
Define-general characteristics
Identify basic features: culture, state, and social structure of the following:
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus
Shang
Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E.
Classical Civilizations
Major political, social, economic, cultural, arts, sciences, and technological developments for the following:
China
India
Mediterranean
Major Belief Systems prior to 600 C.E.
Note basic features, where applied, similarities, effects on social hierarchy, differences, role of women
Polytheism
Judaism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Daoism
Buddhism
Christianity
Collapse of Empires - Why and how?
Han China
Western portion or the Roman Empire
Gupta
Movements of Peoples/ Migrations
Huns
Germanic tribes
Locate interregional trade and religious networks
Major Comparisons – Know, Understand, be able to Explain
§ Compare major religions and philosophical systems including similarities in affects on social hierarchy
§ Compare the role of women in different belief systems- Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism
§ Understand why and how the collapse of empire was more severe in the Mediterranean than in China
§ Compare the caste system with other systems of social inequality
§ Compare society and culture of civilizations with pastoral and nomadic societies
§ Compare the development of traditions and institutions in major civilizations- India, China, Rome, Greece
§ Describe the interregional trading systems
§ Compare the political and social structures of two early civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, Shang, Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450
Periodization
Why 600?
Why 1450?
Continuities & breaks with the period
Islamic World
Geography and stages of expansion
Impact on the Sudanese kingdoms
Impact on East Africa
Impact in India/ SE Asia
Islamic political structures (caliphate)
Impact on arts, sciences, technologies
Interregional networks and contacts-Development, shift, technology and cultural exchange
Trans-Sahara trade
Indian Ocean trade
Silk routes
Missionary outreach
Contacts between major religions
Spread of Christianity
Spread of Islam
Impact of the Mongol empires
China’s internal and external expansion
Tang and Song economic revolution
early Ming initiatives
Chinese influence Korea, Japan, Vietnam
Developments in Europe
Restructuring economic, political, and social institutions
Division of Christianity into eastern and western
The Americas - social, political, economic, cultural patterns
Maya
Inca
Aztec
Demographic and environmental changes - Migrations and impact
Aztecs
Mongols
Turks
Vikings
Arabs
Bantu
Europeans to east/central Europe
Consequences of plagues in 14th century
Growth and role of cities
Major Comparisons – Know, Understand, be able to Explain
§ European and Japanese Feudalism
§ political/social institutions in Eastern and Western Europe
§ Analyze role and function of cities
§ Islam and Christianity
§ Analyze gender systems and changes (impact of Islam)
§ Aztec and Incan empires
§ European contacts and sub-Saharan contacts with Islamic world
§ nomadic invasion and effects
Period 4: Global Interactions, c. 1450 to c. 1750
PERIODIZATION
Significance of 1450:
Prince Henry of Navigator
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
James Cook
1453-
Significance of 1750:
Continuities and Breaks:
Ex. Reformation
Ex. Neo-Confucianism
Causes of Changes from the Previous Period:
Causes of Changes within this period
CHANGE
Global interactions
Trade (Triangular Trade, the Middle Passage, Indian ocean trade network)
Technology
KNOWLEDGE OF MAJOR EMPIRES AND OTHER POLITICAL UNITS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS (include gender roles), Europe (include absolutism)
Portugal
Spain
Russia
France
England
Middle East
Ottoman
India
Mughal
East Asia
Tokugawa Japan
Ming China
New World
Aztec
Inca
Africa (know one of the following)
Congo, Benin, Oyo, Songhay
SLAVE SYSTEMS AND SLAVE TRADE
DEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIORMENTAL CHANGES
Diseases, animals, new crops and comparative population trends
CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
Neo-Confucianism (Tokugawa Japan/ Ming / Qing China)
Changes and continuities in Confucianism
Major developments and exchanges in the arts
Mughal
Renaissance
DIVERSE INTERPRETATIONS
What are the debates about the timing and extent of European predominance in the world economy?
How does the world economic system of this period compare with the world economic network of the previous period?
MAJOR COMPARISONS
Imperial systems
coercive labor systems
Comparative knowledge of empire
Russia’s interaction with the West and the interaction of one of the following:
Ottoman Empire, China, Tokugawa Japan, Mughal India)
Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration, c. 1750 to c. 1900
PERIODIZATION Why 1750? Why 1900?
Causes of change from the previous period:
Causes of change within the period:
CHANGES IN PATTERNS OF WORLD TRADE, COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: 1750
Causes in Great Britain
Compare causes and early phases of the industrial revolution in Western Europe & Japan:
SIMILARITIES:
DIFFERENCES:
Meiji Restoration, 1868
Industrial Revolution: Differential timing in different societies:
Mutual relationship of industrialization and scientific developments:
Commonalities
DEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIORMENTAL CHANGES
Migrations:
End of the Atlantic slave trade:
New birthrate patterns:
Changes in food supply:
CHANGES IN SOCIAL AND GENDER STRUCTURE
Industrial Revolution:
Commercial and demographic development:
Emancipation of serfs/slaves:
Tension between work patterns and ideas about gender:
POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS
United States:
France: 1789/ know Jacobins
Haiti:
Mexico 1911
China 1911
Latin America: Similarities and differences
Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, c. 1900 to the Present
Rise of nationalism, nation-states, and movements of political reform
Rise of democracy and its limitations: reform, women, racism
Overlaps between nations and empires
RISE OF WESTERN DOMINANCE
Economic:
Social:
Cultural & Artistic
Patterns of Expansion: Imperialism and Colonialism / SCRAMBLE for AFRICA
Causes/motives/ Examples
Cultural and Political reactions to imperialism and colonialism
DEBATES:
What is the utility of modernization as a framework for interpreting events in this time period?
Causes of serf and slave emancipation in this period?
Nature of women’s roles in this period: industrialized areas v. colonial societies.
COMPARISONS
Causes and early phases of the industrial revolution in western Europe and Japan
Compare two of the following Haitian, American, French, Mexican, or Chinese Revolution
Compare reaction to foreign domination in : the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and Japan
Compare forms of western intervention in Latin America and in Africa
Compare conditions of women in the upper/middle classes with peasantry/working class in Western Europe
Comparative Nationalism: China and Japan, Cuba and the Philippines, Egypt and Nigeria
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