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AP World Year End Review Questions
Battle of the Sexes-Game Review
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Battle of the Sexes: May 11, 2007
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1. What are the characteristics of empire as a form of government? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
Compare and contrast the following empires: Han, Roman, Greek, Persian as to strengths and
weaknesses, leaders, accomplishments, and reasons for decline.
2. Explain the characteristics of a traditional economy – cite its strengths and weaknesses compared to
a command economy or a free market economy. Explain an example for each of the economies
mentioned. Make a timeline showing what technological innovations appeared at what times and where
to increase agricultural yields? What role did these increased yields play in promoting change within
different societies?
3. How would you divide the history from 1000 BCE to 2000 CE into periods of study? What would you
use as dividing points for your periods? Some suggestions are decline and fall of civilizations, artistic
periods, inventions, important ideas? Justify each choice that you make.
4. Make a chart comparing and contrasting the major religions we have studied: Buddhism, Christianity,
Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, African. What are the questions we would want to ask ourselves
about these religions? Certainly when and where, strengths, weaknesses, leaders, how begun, how
spread (especially missionary outreach), relationship to the state, role of women within each religion.
What other factors? Perhaps how each of these religions changed over time…
5. When thinking about the structure of societies, explain how different societies mobilized labor. Who
accomplished most of what needed to be done? How was society divided? How were these divisions
enforced? How was slavery different from the caste system, from early feudalism? How much mobility
was there? Some interesting societies to include in your comparison would be Han China, Romans,
Greeks, European Middle Ages, African “stateless societies”, or societies which utilized systems of
indentured labor.
6. What factors characterized the interactions of “civilized, settled” societies with those societies which
were nomadic. Here you might look at the Huns, Vikings, or the Mongols. In what ways did the values
of these societies differ? Their social structure? Their treatment of women? You could look at them in
comparison to the societies they threatened such as the Romans, Charlemagne’s France, or the Kievan
Russians. You could also do a cross – period comparison including the Arabs and the Turks.
7. Explain the economic and social system known as feudalism. How was European feudalism different
from Japanese feudalism.
8. What are the causes and consequences of major disease flows across the world. In your answer you
might consider these examples: Black Death in China and Europe – l300’s; Demise of New World
Populations after contacts with Europeans – 1500’s; Influenza Epidemic of l9l9-l920; the AID’s
pandemic.
9. Trace the development of human activity in finding truth. What is the nature of knowledge in ancient
Greece, the Middle Ages, Enlightenment Europe, Post World War II Europe and the United States.
How is this similar to and different from other societies in different parts of the world such as the
Aztecs, China, Africa?
10. Compare and contrast the development of African and New World societies: Ghana, Songhay, and
Mali, with Toltec, Inca, and Aztec. Consider reasons for growth, trade patterns, social structures, role of
religion, role of women, contacts with other cultures, reasons for decline.
11. Compare different trading networks over time: Indian Ocean trade, Silk Road, Atlantic trading system,
Globalization. In your comparison you might consider extent, methods of contact, dominant states,
products traded, technological level, effects of trade. Don’t forget to make reference to time period.
12. Thinking of the interactions of Islam with Christianity over time, make a timeline charting those
interactions. You might make a key indicating which of those interactions were positive and which
negative. It might also be quite beneficial to show how these two religions changed and developed over
time.
13. Looking at the period from 1000-1450; the period from 1450 to l750; the period from
1750 – 1900; and the period from 1900-2000, how would you characterize these periods? Which areas
of the globe were tied in with other areas? Which were not? Where was technological progress being
made fastest? What were some examples? Which religions were dominant? Where were the
migrations? What were the kinds and speed of cultural interaction? (Include specific examples.)
14. Compare the European kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Spain with the empires of the Ottomans,
Mughals, and Ming in the period from l450-l750, looking from the beginning to the end of the period.
Analyze political and economic systems, cultural and intellectual development, and technological
progress.
15. Consider the issue of modernization. In what ways did each of the following try to modernize: Japan
with the Meiji Restoration, Russia under Peter the Great, the Ottoman Empire, and contemporary
Nigeria. What methods have worked the best? What qualities does the subject state need? What about
the level of economic, political, and cultural development and interactions with the world surrounding
this state?
16. Consider the relationships and contacts of European societies with Asia, Africa, and the New World
from 1492 to 1914. What are the changes and continuities in these relationships? What did the
Europeans want in each area of the world? How were the European trading systems different from the
earlier systems involving Dar al Islam? What effects did these contacts have on the Europeans? On the
societies they contacted? You might want to make a chart of these causes and effects. How did the
patterns of world trade change from l492 to l9l4?
17. The Industrial Revolution is a major concept in terms of world history. What factors were necessary to
have an industrial revolution? Where did it begin? Where did it spread? How did it change patterns of
economic, social, and intellectual interaction? What advantages and disadvantages did it bring?
Compare the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century with those brought
by the movements toward Globalization of the twentieth century. .
18. Make a list of the ways that the industrialization of the period from 1750-1900 was related to
Imperialism and to Nationalism. Then illustrate each of the items on your list with examples from the
experience of Russia, France, the United States, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire and Mexico. Be
sure to use all of the countries.
19. Analyze changes in gender and social structure in the following regions: United States, France, China,
India, Ottoman Empire/Turkey, and Brazil from l750 to today.
20. Make a chart outlining the content, strengths, effects, and limitations of each of the following
intellectual systems of thought:
Adam Smith – The Wealth of Nations
Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto
Isaac Newton – The Principia
Explain why each of these works is the product of Western and Enlightenment thinking
21. Trace the demographic and environment changes in various regions of the world from 1000 CE to 2000
CE, using the following states: Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, North America, Oceania.
Include information on population growth and decline, urbanization, relative GDP, and environmental
issues.
22. Explain the relationship between ideas of the nation state, sovereignty, and democracy in the following
regions: France, US, China, India, Nigeria, South Africa, and Russia from l750 to 2000. Use at least
one specific example for each of the states listed.
23. Compare and contrast patterns of resistance to European/Western dominance the following regions:
China, Japan, Argentina, Ottoman Empire, Mexico, India, and South Africa during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.
24. What are the patterns and results of the decolonization movements in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
How were these twentieth century movements different from independence movements in Mexico,
South America, and the United States?
25. Compare and contrast the effects of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War on the United States,
the Soviet Union, African states, Asia, and Europe.
26. Is the globalization of today significantly different from any world systems period of the history we
have studied before? In what ways would the global system of today be similar to the Silk Road
System, the Indian Ocean system, the Atlantic system? In what ways different? What categories would
you set up? Power centers? Regional or universal organizations? Social systems? Status systems?