Download Study Sheet for the Final Exam

AP World History: Study Sheet for the Final Exam
Your final exam will be based on material from the following chapters in your text. A word of study
advice – get an AP World History review book – you’ll use it now to study for this final, and also
again to study for the final exam in May.
This study sheet consists of two parts: content and vocabulary. The content is specific enough to guide
you into thinking about the major concepts of the time period. The vocabulary is taken from what you
will encounter on the multiple choice part of the exam and is meant to help you become familiar with
college-level terms that might confuse in the questions. You might want to make a separate study
sheet or flashcards of the terms you don’t know.
Foundations Period (10,000 BCE – 600 CE)
Chapters 1 – 5 Stearns Textbook (Strayer Chapters 2 – 7)
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Neolithic Revolution
World Religions: Explain basic beliefs, important people and founders, rise and spread: Hinduism,
Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity.
Philosophical Systems: Explain basic beliefs, important people and founders: Daoism,
Confucianism, Greek philosophy - Aristotle
Mandate of Heaven
Basic PERSIA-G knowledge of the three classical empires: Han China, Gupta India, Rome with a
particular emphasis on social hierarchies, government systems, and policies in each empire and
basic dates of these empires
Reasons for the fall of the Roman, Gupta, and Han Empires and effects on the populations
Postclassical Period (600 CE – 1450 CE)
Chapters 6 – 15 Stearns Textbook (Strayer Chapters 7 – 13)
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Islam: important people, rise, spread and basic beliefs; Islamic preservation of Greek learning
Islamic Trade – especially Indian Ocean, interaction with East Africa, spread throughout SE Asia
Indian Ocean Trade – participants
Nomadic migrations and their impacts: Arabs, Turks, Vikings, Mongols
Portuguese role in maritime trade vs. Chinese maritime voyages with Zheng He
Aztec and Inca – process of empire building
Feudalism in Japan and Europe – basic comparisons
Various political structures of the time period: Western Europe, Byzantium, Abbasids, Tang –
Song China, Japan, Delhi Sultanate, Sub-Saharan Africa, Aztecs, Inca
Early Modern Period – Connecting Hemispheres (1450 – 1750)
Selections from Chapters 16 – 22 Stearns Textbook (Strayer Chapter 14)
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Empire building in Russia, Ottomans, Spain, Safavids, Mughals, Songhay, Ming/Qing China– pay
attention to the role of religion, methods of conquest and expansion, and motivations.
Vocabulary
This is not a list of terms to look up in your textbook – although you may find some of them in your
glossary and that should be the first place to look since you want to apply them historically.
Alternately, you could go to an online or hard copy of a good dictionary. Whatever definition you
find, check with your instructor to make sure it addresses historical concepts. You will run across
these words on the multiple choice test – in both the answer choices and the questions.
1. Alliance
2. Bureaucracy
3. Chastity
4. Covenant
5. Domestic
6. Filial
7. Hierarchy
8. Immolation
9. Indigenous
10. Maritime
11. Matriarchal
12. Migratory
13. Mobility
14. Monogamy
15. Monotheism
16. Patriarchal
17. Precedence
18. Propaganda
19. Regulation
20. Secularism
21. Sedentary
22. Serfdom
23. Succession
24. Tenet
25. Urban