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AP WORLD HISTORY EXAM REVIEW
2017 EXAM ADMINISTRATION
MAY 11, 2017
OPTIONAL
WHAP EXAM REVIEW
This review, completed IN FULL, and BY HAND,
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the day OF or FOLLOWING the AP World History Exam
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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.
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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
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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
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India
Mediterranean
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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
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Buddhism
Christianity
Collapse of Empires - Why and how?
Han China
Western portion or the Roman Empire
Gupta
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Movements of Peoples/ Migrations
Huns
Germanic tribes
Locate interregional trade and religious networks
Major Comparisons – Know, Understand, be able to Explain
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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
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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
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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
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Missionary outreach
Contacts between major religions
Spread of Christianity
Spread of Islam
Impact of the Mongol empires
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China’s internal and external expansion
Tang and Song economic revolution
early Ming initiatives
Chinese influence Korea, Japan, Vietnam
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Developments in Europe
Restructuring economic, political, and social institutions
Division of Christianity into eastern and western
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The Americas - social, political, economic, cultural patterns
Maya
Inca
Aztec
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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
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Major Comparisons – Know, Understand, be able to Explain
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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
1453Significance of 1750:
Continuities and Breaks:
Ex. Reformation
Ex. Neo-Confucianism
Causes of Changes from the Previous Period:
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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
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Middle East
Ottoman
India
Mughal
East Asia
Tokugawa Japan
Ming China
New World
Aztec
Inca
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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Mutual relationship of industrialization and scientific developments:
Commonalities
DEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIORMENTAL CHANGES
Migrations:
End of the Atlantic slave trade:
New birthrate patterns:
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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:
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POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS
United States:
France: 1789/ know Jacobins
Haiti:
Mexico 1911
China 1911
Latin America: Similarities and differences
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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:
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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?
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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
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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
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Comparative Nationalism: China and Japan, Cuba and the Philippines, Egypt and Nigeria
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