Download AP World History Vocabulary Guide to Unit ONE (chapters 1-9)

AP World History Vocabulary Guide to Unit ONE (chapters 1-9)
Artifacts
Hominids
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Revolution
Slash-and-burn farming
Hunters and gatherers
Domestication
Characteristics of a
civilization
Cuneiform
Bronze Age
Ziggurat
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Indus Valley
Yellow River Valley,
China
Egypt (3 kingdoms)
Polytheism
Cultural diffusion
Sumerians/Akkadians
Hammurabi’s Code
Theocracy
Pyramid
Narmer
Hieroglyphics
Monsoons
Harappan civilization
Loess
Oracle bones
Feudalism (china)
Mandate of Heaven
Indo-Europeans
Hittites
Anatolia
Aryans
Vedas
Caste system in India
Mahabharata
Hinduism
Buddhism
Jainism
Reincarnation
Karma
Enlightenment
Moksha
Nirvana
Minoans
Epic of Gilgamesh
Phoenicians
Judaism
Torah
Abraham
Palestine
Canaan
Moses
Monotheism
Covenant
10 Commandments
Israel
Hyksos
Nubian Empire
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Ramses II
Kush
Meroe
Assyrians
Sennacherib
Chaldeans
Nineveh
Ashurbanipal
Persian Empire
Cyrus
Cambyses
Darius
Royal Road (Persia)
Zoroaster
Confucius
Filial piety
Bureaucracy
Daoism
Legalism
Yin yang
Shi Huanghi
Great wall of China
Autocracy
Chinese dynasties in order
Mycenaeans
Trojan War
Epics of Homer
Polis
Oligarchy
Acropolis
Phalanx
Persian wars
(Thermopylae, Salamis,
Marathon)
Pericles
Direct democracy (Greece)
Peloponnesian War
Tragedy/comedy
Greek philosophers
Macedonia (Philip)
Alexander the Great
Hellenistic culture
Euclid
Archimedes
Stoicism
Epicureanism
Roman Republic
Patricians/Plebians
Twelve tables (Roman
law)
Punic Wars/Hannibal
Triumvirate
Julius Caesar
Augustus/Pax Romana
Christianity/Jesus/apostles
Peter/bishop/pope
Mercenaries
Diocletian
Constantine/Constantinople
Sack of Rome
Attila the Huns
Visigoths/Ostrogoths/etc.
Greco-Roman culture
Aquaducts
Mauryan Empire
Asoka
Gupta Empire
Silk roads
Han Dynasty
Monopoly
Assimilation
Sahara/sahel
Animism
Nok
Djenne-Djeno
Bantu speaking people
Migration
Axum (Aksum)
Terraces
Ice age
Mesoamerica
Olmec/Zapotec
AP World History Vocabulary Guide to Unit TWO (chapters 10-15)
Islam/Muslims
Abrahamic religions
Muhammad
Allah
Mecca
Hajj
Qur’an
Sunna
Shari’a
Caliph
Sunnis V. Shiites
Sufi
Umayyads
Abbasids
al-Andalus
Fatimid
House of Wisdom
Calligraphy
Justinian (Code)
Hagia Sophia
Byzantine Empire
Church splits (icons)
Cyrillic alphabet
Slavs/Kiev
Vladimir
Yaroslav the Wise
Mongol invasions
Czar
Alexander Nevsky
Seljuk Turks
Malik Shah
Tang Dynasty
Tang Taizong
Wu Zhao
Song Dynasty
Moveable type
Gentry
Mongol conquests
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Khanates
Mongol Peace (Pax
Mongolica)
Mongols fail to control
Japan
Marco Polo
Shintoism
Feudalism in Japan
(Bushido, Samurai,
Shogun)
Khmer Empire
Angkor Wat
Koryu Dynasty
Middle Ages in Europe
Charlemagne
Franks (Frankish
Kingdoms)
Charles Martel
Carolingian Empire
Feudalism in Europe
(fief, etc.)
Magyars/Muslims/Vikin
gs
Manorialism
Tithe
Chivalry
Holy Roman Empire
(HRE)
7 sacraments (Catholic
Church)
Lay investiture
Concordat of Worms
Pope Urban II (called
Crusades)
Gothic architecture
Crusades
Saladin
Richard the LionHearted
Spanish reconquista
Inquisition
3-field system
Craft Guilds
Vernacular
Thomas Aquinas
(scholasticism)
William the Conqueror
Magna Carta
Common law
Parliament
Hugh Capet (Capetian
empire)
Philip II
Estates-General (France)
100 Years War
Joan of Arc/Longbow
Great Schism/Pope in
Avignon
Jan Hus/John Wycliffe
Bubonic Plague
Stateless societies
Lineage
Patrilineal/matrilineal
Maghrib
Islamic law (shari’a)
Almoravid/Almohad
reformers
Ghana
Mali
Sundiata
Mansa Musa
Ibn Battuta
Songhai
Hausa
Yoruba
Benin
Swahili
Kilwa
Great Zimbabwe
Mutapa
AP World History Vocabulary Guide to Unit THREE (chapters 16-21)
Anasazi
Moundbuilders
Maya
Aztecs
Tenochtitlan
Montezuma II
Inca
Pachacuti
Renaissance
Humanism
Secularism
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Machiavelli’s The
Prince
Erasmus’s The Praise of
Folly
Thomas More’s Utopia
Johann Gutenberg
(printing press)
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther (faith
alone)
Indulgences
Protestantism
Peace of Augsburg
Henry VIII (Anglican)
Church of England
John Calvin
(predestination)
Anabaptists/Presbyterian
s
Catholic Counter
Reformation
Jesuits (Ignatius of
Loyola)
Council of Trent
Ottoman Empire
Sultan
Take over Byzantine
Empire
Timu the Lame
Mehmed II
Constantinople =
Istanbul
Suleyman the Lawgiver
Janissaries
Safavid Empire
Isma’il
Shah Abbas (shah)
Mughal Empire
Babur
Sikhs
Shah Jahan
Taj Mahal
Aurangzeb
God, Glory, and Gold!
European Explorers
Portugal starts the
exploration
Henry the Navigator
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco de Gama
Christopher Columbus
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Ferdindand Magellan
Zheng He
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Tools of Exploration on
the seas
Treaty of Torsedillas
Dutch East India
Company
Ming Dynasty
Hongwu
Yonglo
Manchus
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi
Chinese isolation
(Manchus)
Daimyo
Oda Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Tokugawa Shogunate
Haiku
Christian missionaries in
Japan
Japan moves to isolation
Spanish Empire building
Conquistadors
Mestizo
Encomienda system
African slave trade
Columbian Exchange
Middle Passage
Triangular trade
Capitalism
Joint-stock company
Mercantilism/favorable
balance of trade
Absolutism (theory and
causes)
El Greco
Velazquez
Don Quixote
Dutch revolt against
Spanish
Edict of Nantes
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV
War of Spanish
Succession
Thirty Year’s War
Maria Theresa
Frederick the Great
Seven Year’s War
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great