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Homework Syllabus for the 2017-2018 School Year
WHAP
Ms. Napp
The World History Advanced Placement curriculum is a cross-cultural and
chronological examination of the connections and encounters between the world’s
diverse peoples and the development of individual cultures within diverse regions.
Students of World History AP are encouraged to interact with information on many
levels. From the gathering of facts concerning when and how events happened to
the greater complexities of how circumstances impacted different groups within
societies and between societies, students examine world history from a multiplicity
of perspectives.
Of course, a history of the world is a daunting undertaking and to ensure that
information is understood and remembered, the homework syllabus is designed to
provide students opportunities to analyze and synthesize information, to practice
concepts and skills, and to reinforce critical information. Therefore, the completion
of a weekly homework assignment is a required component of the course. In this
packet, students will find the assignments for the entire year.
Ultimately, all students can achieve academic success in the Advanced Placement
World History classroom. The homework syllabus is designed to help students
achieve academic mastery.
Required Materials for the Completion of the Homework Syllabus:
1- The Textbook (All students will be issued a copy of Robert W. Strayer’s
Ways of the World: A Global History)
Note: The Textbook Companion Website is available at the following link:
http://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/studentresources/strayer2ehs#
2- Ms. Napp’s Social Studies Webpage
http://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org//Domain/353
Optional Materials but Highly Recommended:
 A Review Book for World History AP
 A Box Set of World History AP Flashcards
Note: Many publishers such as Barron’s, Kaplan’s, and 5 Steps to a 5 offer World
History AP Flashcards as well as Review Books
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves.” ~ Thomas Alva Edison
A Note about Ms. Napp’s Homework Philosophy:
Homework is an opportunity for reflection and analysis of the key concepts, events,
and themes of world history. Homework is an opportunity to practice essential
skills such as analytical reading and writing. Homework is also a vehicle to practice
and acquire mastery of facts. Finally, the completion of homework will lead to the
creation of a superb review document for the Advanced Placement World History
examination. As such, all students are encouraged to maintain neat and accurate
homework assignments and to preserve assignments in preparation for exams.
“To enjoy a grander sight, climb to a greater height.”
~ Chinese Proverb
“Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach Lhasa.”
~ Indian Proverb
The Assignments:
Strayer:
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1- According to archaeologists, what is the evolutionary
line of descent?
2- Where did this evolutionary line of descent occur?
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3- What characteristic is shared by all hominids?
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4- Define bipedalism.
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5- What did archaeologist Mary Leakey uncover in 1976?
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6- What did Homo habilis begin to make?
7- What is Homo erectus associated with?
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8- When did Homo sapiens probably emerge?
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9- When did Homo sapiens begin to migrate out of Africa?
10- Describe the way of life during the Paleolithic era.
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11- What percentage of time does the Paleolithic era
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12- What was the single most significant and enduring
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13- Define pastoralists.
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14- Why were the Americas at a distinct disadvantage in
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15- What were “civilizations” based on?
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16- When did the first cities emerge in world history?
17- Why have people living in state- and city-based societies
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18- Identify six places where the earliest civilizations
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19- What does B.C.E. mean?
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20- What does C.E. mean?
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21- What event marks Year 1 in the Muslim calendar?
22- What do the ways we measure time reflect?
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23- Define foragers.
24- What achievements of Paleolithic people deserve our
attention?
25- Why was the first 150,000 years of human experience an
exclusively African story?
26- Define culture.
27- Draw a smaller version of the global dispersion of
humankind map to the best of your ability.
28- What advantage did the last Ice Age give outwardbound human beings?
29- Identify several new technologies that emerged across
the vast plains of Central Europe, Ukraine, and Russia
as a result of Paleolithic adaptations to Ice Age
conditions.
30- How did early human migration to Australia occur?
31- What did the Australian Dreamtime recount?
32- Why did the earliest settlement of the Western
Hemisphere occur much later than that of Australia?
33- Describe Clovis culture.
34- How did Austronesian migrations differ from other
early patterns of human migration?
35- Describe the first human societies.
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Africa?
2- Describe the technique known as “insulting the meat.”
3- How did the Chumash differ from the San?
4- How have a growing number of people disillusioned
with modernity come to look at the Paleolithic era
differently?
5- What was the chief feature of the long Paleolithic era?
6- What second global pattern began to unfold around
12,000 years ago?
7- Describe the revolutionary transformation that occurred
as a result of the Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution.
8- Why did domestication create a new kind of mutual
dependence?
9- What was the most extraordinary feature of the
Agricultural or Neolithic Revolution?
10- Identify the locations were agriculture occurred
independently.
11- Why is it no accident that the Agricultural Revolution
coincided with the end of the last Ice Age?
12- Why do most scholars believe that women were the
likely innovators who led the way to deliberate farming?
13- What was the first location of an area that experienced a
full Agricultural Revolution?
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14- What was domesticated in this first area to experience a
full Agricultural Revolution?
15- Draw a smaller version of the Fertile Crescent map.
16- Provide specific examples of environmental
deterioration in economically fragile regions that
experienced this new way of life as a result of an
Agricultural Revolution.
17- What preceded the domestication of plants in Africa and
how did Africa differ from other regions that
experienced an agricultural revolution?
18- Describe teff.
19- What was the most distinctive feature of the
Agricultural Revolution in the Americas?
20- How many of the fourteen major species of large
mammals that have been brought under human control
existed in the Western Hemisphere?
21- How did the lack of domesticated animals impact the
peoples of the Americas?
22- Why was the domestication of corn in the Americas,
according to one geneticist, “arguably man’s first, and
perhaps his greatest, feat of genetic engineering”?
23- Compare corn to cereal grains of the Fertile Crescent.
24- How did the north/south orientation of the Americas
affect the spread of agriculture in the Americas?
25- How did the east/west axis of Eurasia affect the spread
of agriculture in Eurasia?
26- Identify three candidates for domestication in the
Andean highlands that never reached Mesoamerica.
27- Where did the Indo-European languages probably
originate and how did these languages spread?
28- Draw a smaller version of the Global Spread of
Agriculture map.
29- Identify significant facts about the Bantu migration.
30- Provide evidence that the agricultural revolution in New
Guinea did not spread much beyond its core region.
31- Why did the Agricultural Revolution lead to an increase
in human population?
32- Provide evidence that farming did not necessarily mean
an improved life for ordinary people.
33- What is metallurgy?
34- What was the “secondary products revolution”?
35- What factors gave rise to distinct kinds of societies early
on in the age of agriculture?
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1- Where did herders, pastoralists, or nomads emerge?
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2- Describe the complicated relationship between nomadic
herders and their farming neighbors.
3- Describe life in Çatalhöyük, a very early agricultural
village in southern Turkey.
4- Describe the “title societies” of the Igbo of southern
Nigeria.
5- When did Cahokia flourish; where was Cahokia located;
and what distinction began to take root in chiefdoms like
Cahokia that would be replicated elsewhere?
6- What did the ancient Chinese teachers of Daoism urge
their followers to abandon?
7- What is the strange paradox of civilization?
8- Describe the new and particular type of human society
commonly referred to as civilization.
9- When did the earliest civilizations emerge?
10- Where did the earliest civilizations emerge?
11- Describe the civilization of Norte Chico.
12- Define quipu.
13- Describe the civilization that developed in the Indus
River Valley.
14- Draw a smaller version of the First Civilizations map.
15- What has the lack of palaces, temples, elaborate graves,
kings or warrior classes sent scholars scrambling to
provide an explanation for in the Indus Valley?
16- How did the environmental impact of the Indus Valley
civilization eventually undermine its ecological
foundations?
17- How did the early civilization of China differ from the
early civilization of the Indus Valley?
18- Identify facts about the Xia dynasty.
19- How did the subsequent dynasties of the Shang and
Zhou change the Chinese state?
20- Describe the concept of the Mandate of Heaven that
developed during the Zhou dynasty.
21- What were oracle bones?
22- Describe Olmec civilization.
23- Why is Olmec civilization regarded as the “mother
civilization” of Mesoamerica?
24- What did civilization have its roots in?
25- What is the one of the most distinctive features of the
First Civilizations?
26- Describe the city of Uruk, ancient Mesopotamia’s largest
city.
27- How did the Epic of Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia’s ancient
epic poem, describe the city of Uruk?
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28- Describe the city of Mohenjo-Daro.
29- Describe the city of Teotihuacán.
30- Why was urban society impersonal?
31- Describe the inequality and hierarchies of the First
Civilizations.
32- How did the practice of slavery in ancient times vary
considerably from place to place?
33- How and why did the introduction of animal-drawn
plows affect the role of women?
34- Define patriarchy.
35- Why did women in Egyptian civilization, although
patriarchal, have greater opportunities than most other
First Civilizations?
1- What held ancient civilizations together despite the
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many tensions and complexities of urban living and the
vast inequalities of civilized societies?
2- Why was the state more useful for some people than for
others?
3- Why were ancient Chinese kings known as the Son of
Heaven?
4- What remarkable invention was a further support of
state authority and how was this invention viewed?
5- Draw a smaller version of the Writing in Ancient
Civilizations snapshot but only include location, type,
and example for each region and writing system.
6- Why did Qin Shihuangdi allegedly bury alive some 460
scholars and burned their books?
7- Describe the Olmec stone heads.
8- What were common features of the First Civilizations?
9- How did an open environment without serious obstacles
to travel affect Mesopotamia?
10- What geographic features protected Egypt?
11- How did the environment of Mesopotamia affect the
Mesopotamian outlook on life?
12- Identify several important details about the story
recounted in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia’s most
famous literary work.
13- Draw a smaller version of the map titled Mesopotamia.
14- How did the geographic setting of the elite literature
culture in Egypt affect the outlook of Egyptians?
15- What did the amazing pyramids, constructed during
Egypt’s Old Kingdom, reflect a firm belief in?
16- What change occurred regarding the Egyptian view on
gaining access to the afterlife by the New Kingdom?
17- Describe the “negative confession” that one text used in
burial ceremonies required.
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18- Describe environmental problems experienced in Sumer
as a result of the Sumerian impact on the environment.
19- Why did a more sustainable agricultural system last in
Egypt compared to Mesopotamia?
20- What allowed a degree of stability and continuity to
occur in Egypt as compared to Sumer?
21- Describe the city-states in Sumer.
22- Why was Mesopotamia the most thoroughly urbanized
society of ancient times?
23- What was the chief reason for massive urbanization in
Sumerian city-states?
24- How did a poet lament the destruction of the city of Ur?
25- What did the Akkadians, the Babylonians, and the
Assyrians create in Mesopotamia?
26- How many years did Egypt maintain unity and
independence, though with occasional interruptions?
27- Where did most people live in Egypt? Why?
28- Describe the role of the pharaoh in Egypt.
29- How did the role of the pharaoh change over time in
Egypt?
30- Where had Sumerian merchants established seaborne
contact with?
31- Identify significant facts about the Hebrews.
32- Identify significant facts about the Phoenicians.
33- How was Nubia influenced by Egypt and yet how did
Nubia remain a distinct civilization?
34- What did historian Martin Bernal claim in his book,
Black Athena?
35- Why do scholars have reservations about the term
“civilization”?
1- Why did the Indus Valley civilization decline?
2- Why does the end of Olmec civilization around 400
B.C.E. puzzle historians?
3- How did the second and third waves of civilization differ
from the First Civilizations?
4- Why did landowning elites have little incentive to
innovate?
5- Draw a smaller version of the Roman Empire map.
6- What did the Roman conquerors allegedly do to
Carthage?
7- What have scholars estimated about the population of
Mayan civilization as the civilization dissolved?
8- What “wisdom traditions” developed in the second- and
third-wave civilizations?
9- What did the Chinese invent during the second- and
third waves of agrarian civilizations?
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10- What did India pioneer?
11- Why do historians frequently refer to the period
between 500 B.C.E. and 500 C.E. as the “classical era”?
12- What is an empire?
13- Identify the Eurasian empires of the classical era.
14- Why did imperial states stimulate the exchange of ideas,
cultures, and values?
15- How did the Roman Empire transform Christianity?
16- Why did the Persian Empire and Greek civilization
experience a centuries-long interaction and clash?
17- What earlier empires did the Persians draw upon?
18- When did the famous Persian monarch Cyrus and
Darius rule?
19- Where did Persian conquests quickly reach from?
20- Describe the elaborate cult of kingship in the Persian
Empire.
21- What happened when the Persian king died?
22- By whose power did the Persian king rule?
23- What happened to one high-ranking nobleman who
interrupted the king while the king was with his wife?
24- What was the official title of Persian monarchs?
25- How did Darius best express the authority of the Persian
ruler?
26- Draw a smaller version of the Persian Empire map.
27- Describe the effective administrative system in the
Persian Empire.
28- Define satraps.
29- Who were the “eyes and ears of the King”?
30- Why did Cyrus win the gratitude of the Jews?
31- What aspects of the Persian Empire provided a model
for all subsequent regimes in the region, including, later,
those of the Islamic world?
32- Describe the infrastructure of the Persian Empire.
33- Describe the “royal road.”
34- What did Herodotus write about the imperial courier
service?
35- Describe the Persian city of Persepolis.
1- How did classical Greece differ from the Persian Empire 10/20
and what did the Greeks call themselves?
2- How did the geography of Greece contribute to the
political shape of Greek civilization?
3- How did Greek expansion differ from Persian expansion
and what factors stimulated Greek emigration?
4- What was the broadening of political rights in Greek
history in part associated with?
5- Define hoplites.
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6- What was Sparta famous for and describe Sparta’s
Council of Elders?
7- Identify significant facts about Solon, Cleisthenes and
Pericles.
8- What happened in Ionia that fueled confrontation?
9- Why did the Greek victory over the Persians radicalize
Athenian democracy?
10- What happened in the fifty years or so after the GrecoPersian Wars or the Golden Age of Greek culture?
11- What factors led to a bitter civil war in classical Greece
and what was the outcome of the Peloponnesian War?
12- Draw a smaller version of the Alexander’s Empire and
Successor States map.
13- What was the chief significance of Alexander’s amazing
conquests?
14- What similarities did the Roman Empire and China’s
imperial state share?
15- What happened in Rome around 509 B.C.E.?
16- Define patricians, plebeians, and tribune.
17- How did the Punic Wars with Carthage (between 264
and 146 B.C.E.) change Rome?
18- How were the Romans brutal in their wars with
Carthage yet generous to other former enemies?
19- What question did Roman expansion raise?
20- How did Caesar Augustus change Rome and what was
the Pax Romana?
21- Identify many significant facts about Shihuangdi.
22- Define legalism.
23- How did Shihuangdi unify China?
24- How was the Han dynasty similar to Shihuangdi’s
creation yet different?
25- Identify the many similarities between the Roman and
Chinese empires.
26- Define the Mandate of Heaven and how it justified
rebellions.
27- How did Christianity become a significant religion in the
Roman Empire and Buddhism a significant religion in
China?
28- How were the Roman and Chinese empires different?
29- Describe the imperial academy established by Han
emperor Wudi as well as the civil service system.
30- Compare the collapse of the Roman Empire and the
collapse of the Han dynasty.
31- Identify significant facts about the Aryans.
32- Identify significant facts about the Mauryan Empire.
33- Why did the battle against the state of Kalinga mark a
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34- What changes occurred as a result of Ashoka’s
conversion to Buddhism?
35- What happened after the collapse of the Mauryan
Empire?
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Students will read thirty pages in a World History AP Review
book. Students will create a chart with three columns: Facts I
Know, Facts I Know but Need to Practice, Facts I Do Not
Know. Students will also create a timeline of important dates
in World History AP thus far. Finally, students will create two
short answer questions with two parts for each question and
answer the questions. Sample short answer questions are found
in the practice tests of the review book. Answers will consist of
five sentences per question. With two questions consisting of
two parts, students will submit four answers for a total of
twenty sentences (five sentences per each part).
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1- What was the “age of warring states” (403-221 B.C.E.) and
how did the turmoil of this period affect Chinese thinkers?
2- Identify significant facts about Legalism.
3- Why did the Qin dynasty thoroughly discredit Legalism?
4- What was the Confucian answer to the problem of China’s
disorder?
5- Describe the Confucian concept of ren.
6- Why did Confucius emphasize education?
7- Describe the Confucian concept of filial piety.
8- What advice did Ban Zhao offer women in her famous
work called Lessons for Women?
9- How did Confucianism provide a modest element of social
mobility in an otherwise hierarchical society?
10- Who was the legendary figure associated with Daoism;
what short poetic volume is he said to have penned and
what happened to this legendary figure shortly after he
penned this volume?
11- How did Daoism run counter to Confucianism?
12- Describe the central concept of Daoist thinking, the dao.
13- What did Daoism invite people to do?
14- What were the Upanishads and what did these works seek
to probe?
15- Explain the Hindu idea of Brahman.
16- Explain the following Hindu concepts: moksha, samsara,
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17- Describe the experiences of Siddhartha Gautama from his
youth to his enlightenment as the Buddha.
18- According to the Buddha, what was the one thing he
taught?
19- According to the Buddha, what was the cause of suffering
and sorrow and what was the cure?
20- Describe the Buddhist state of nirvana.
21- What Hindu elements found their way into Buddhism and
what elements of Buddhist teaching challenged prevailing
Hindu thinking?
22- Describe the experiences of Buddha’s foster mother and
how women were finally admitted as Buddhist nuns.
23- Why did thousands of women flock to join Buddhist
monastic order of nuns?
24- What had “The Laws of Manu” clearly defined?
25- What is a stupa?
26- Compare and contrast Theravada Buddhism and
Mahayana Buddhism (be sure to comment on
bodhisattvas).
27- Why did Buddhism decline in India?
28- Identify the significant beliefs of Zoroastrianism and
explain clearly the cosmic battle.
29- Why did Zoroastrianism decline in Persia, where did a few
believers flee?
30- What parts of the Zoroastrian belief system were
incorporated into other traditions?
31- Identify the significant beliefs of the Jews as well as the
Jewish perception of Yahweh and particularly how this
perception changed over time.
32- What was the distinctive feature of the classical Greek
cultural tradition?
33- Describes Socrates’ approach to knowledge.
34- Identify the contributions of Herodotus, Plato, and
Aristotle.
35- Describe the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
1- Describe the imperial academy established by Emperor
Wu Di in 124 B.C.E.
2- Describe the Chinese examination system in theory and
in practice.
3- How did Wang Mang attempt to counteract the growing
power of large landowners?
4- What happened to growing numbers of impoverished
and desperate peasants during the Han dynasty?
5- Identify many significant facts about the Yellow Turban
Rebellion.
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6- How were peasants honored and celebrated even though
oppressed and certainly exploited in China?
7- How were merchants viewed in China?
8- Describe in detail the caste system and the four varnas.
9- What castes or varnas were called “twice-born” and
why were these varnas called “twice-born”?
10- What were Sudras not allowed to do?
11- Identify significant facts about jatis.
12- How did Hindu notions of karma, dharma, and rebirth
support inherent inequality and permanent difference in
India?
13- How did India’s social system differ from that of
China’s social system?
14- How did the caste system provide a substitute for the
state?
15- How did India’s caste system facilitate the exploitation
of the poor by the wealthy and powerful?
16- What factors contributed to the growth of slavery?
17- What percentage of China’s population was enslaved
and what groups in China were likely to be slaves?
18- Identify significant facts about slavery in classical
Athens.
19- How many slaves existed in the Roman Empire by the
time of Christ and what were the various ways that an
individual could be enslaved in the Roman Empire?
20- What was Roman slavery not identified with?
21- Identify significant facts about the slave uprising led by
Spartacus in 73 B.C.E.
22- Identify common characteristics of patriarchies in the
classical era.
23- Why did lower-class women often lead somewhat freer
lives than upper-class women?
24- What were the “three obediences”?
25- What did the Chinese woman writer and court official
Ban Zhou (45-116 C.E.) observe about the customs
associated with the birth of a baby girl?
26- How did the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third
century C.E. change China?
27- How did the cultural influence of nomadic peoples
change Chinese women’s lives and what new activities
could elite women do during the Tang dynasty?
28- Identify significant facts about Empress Wu.
29- How did Daoism and Buddhism provide new roles for
women?
30- Describe the lives of women in Athens.
31- What did the Greek writer Menander exclaim about
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32- How was the life of Aspasia different from the lives of
most women in Athens?
33- Define helot and why did helots pose a permanent threat
of rebellion in Sparta.
34- Describe Sparta’s militaristic regime.
35- Identify significant facts about women in Sparta.
1- Draw a smaller version of the map: Africa in the
Classical Era.
2- What happened to Nubia by the classical era and where
did Nubian civilization come to center on?
3- Identify significant facts about the Kingdom of Meroë.
4- Where was the Kingdom of Axum located?
5- Describe agriculture in Axum and mention teff.
6- What were the obelisks of Axum and what purpose did
the obelisks of Axum serve?
7- Define Geez.
8- How did King Ezana change Axum?
9- Identify a significant fact about Jenne-jeno.
10- Describe how Jenne-jeno and other cities of the middle
Niger emerged.
11- Define griots.
12- What did the middle Niger floodplain support but what
did it lack and why did this lack become the basis for
long-distance trade?
13- Where did the Bantu-speaking peoples originally live
and how did the spread of Bantu peoples differ from
that of Alexander the Great?
14- What three advantages did Bantu-speaking farmers
have compared to the gathering and hunting peoples
they encountered?
15- What happened to the gathering and hunting peoples
the Bantu encountered during the classical era?
16- What crops from Southeast Asia enriched Bantu
agriculture?
17- Identify significant facts about the Khoikhoi.
18- What ensured that the cultures and societies of the
Western Hemisphere operated in a world apart from
their Afro-Eurasian counterparts for many years?
19- What did the early American civilizations lack that
existed in the Eastern Hemisphere – thus making their
achievements even more impressive?
20- Describe the “extraordinary [geographic] diversity” of
Mesoamerica (stretching from central Mexico to
northern Central America) and what did this
geographic diversity or such conditions contribute to?
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21- What elements of a common culture were shared in
Mesoamerica?
22- Where did Maya civilization develop and during what
period did the classical phase of Maya civilization
occur?
23- Identify the significant achievements of the Maya.
24- Describe the highly fragmented political system of the
Maya.
25- Identify significant facts about Tikal.
26- What factors led to the collapse of Maya civilization?
27- Identify significant facts about the giant city of
Teotihuacán.
28- Describe the Street of the Dead in Teotihuacán.
29- How did the art of Teotihuacán differ from that of the
Maya?
30- Why did Teotihuacán cast a huge shadow over
Mesoamerica, particularly from 300 to 600 C.E.?
31- Describe the location of Chavín de Huántar as well as
significant facts about it.
32- What did Chavín de Huántar become and how did its
widespread religious cult affect the region?
33- Describe the economy and government of the Moche
civilization that dominated a 250-mile stretch of Peru’s
northern coast and flourished between 100 and 800 C.E.
34- Identify significant facts about the Nazca.
35- Identify significant facts about Chaco canyon and the
five major pueblos that emerged in the region.
1- Identify significant facts about the Silk Roads.
2- Draw a smaller version of “The Silk Roads” map.
3- Compare Outer Eurasia and Inner Eurasia.
4- Why did China’s Han dynasty extend its authority
westward?
5- When did the Silk Road trading networks prosper?
6- What were economic and social consequences of trade
on the Silk Roads?
7- Why does the author state that “more important even
than the economic impact of the Silk Roads was their
role as a conduit of culture”?
8- Why had Buddhism appealed to merchants?
9- How did Buddhism change as it spread across the Silk
Roads?
10- Describe the more devotional Mahayana form of
Buddhism that spread on the Silk Roads.
11- Identify significant facts about the Black Death.
12- How did the exchange of diseases give Europeans a
certain advantage when they confronted the peoples of
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the Western Hemisphere after 1500?
13- Why did the Italian city of Venice emerge by 1000 C.E.
as a major center of commerce?
14- What goods were traded in the Indian Ocean?
15- Draw a smaller version of The Sea Roads map.
16- What made Indian Ocean commerce possible?
17- Explain how navigators used the monsoon winds of the
Indian Ocean.
18- What does the author mean when he writes that trade in
the Indian Ocean operated across “an archipelago of
towns”?
19- Why were the Malay sailors speaking Austronesian
languages an exception; how did this Austronesian
migration occur; and what were the effects of the
Austronesian migration?
20- What was the fulcrum of this growing commercial
network?
21- What Indian cultural practices began to take root in
Southeast Asia?
22- How did Islam differ from Confucian culture in its view
of merchants?
23- Where is Southeast Asia located and how did its
geography play an important role in the evolving world
of Indian Ocean commerce?
24- What did Malay sailors open around 350 C.E.?
25- Identify significant facts about the kingdom of Srivijaya.
26- Identify significant facts about the Sailendra kingdom.
27- Describe Borobudur.
28- What illustrates the penetration of Indian culture
throughout mainland and island Southeast Asia?
29- Identify significant facts about Swahili civilization.
30- What products from Eastern Africa found a ready
market in Arabia, Persia, India, and beyond?
31- Identify significant facts about Great Zimbabwe.
32- How did the introduction of the camel to North Africa
and the Sahara in the early centuries of the Common
Era transform trade and the region?
33- What did the North African Arabs seek in West Africa?
34- Describe the urban and commercial centers of Sudanic
Africa such as Koumbi-Saleh, Jenne, Timbuktu, Gao,
Gobir, and Kano.
35- Describe trade during the classical era of Mesoamerican
civilization (particularly the Maya) as well as the role of
the pochteca in the later Aztec civilization of the postclassical era and state-run operations in the Inca Empire
(and be sure to define quipu).
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1- Describe the three centuries in China that followed the
collapse of the Han dynasty around 220 C.E.
2- Identify significant facts about the Sui Dynasty.
3- Why are the Tang and Song dynasties considered a
golden age?
4- Describe the examination system during the Tang and
Song dynasties.
5- How did the adoption of a fast-ripening and droughtresistant strain of rice from Vietnam change China?
6- Describe foot binding in China.
7- What was the “middle kingdom”?
8- Identify significant facts about China’s tribute system?
9- What did devastating Xiongnu raids persuade the
Chinese emperor to do?
10- Identify significant facts about the founders of the Sui
and Tang dynasties of China.
11- Identify significant facts about the Silla kingdom.
12- Describe the Korean tribute missions to China as well as
the capital city of Kumsong.
13- How did the introduction of Confucianism to Korea
radically change the lives of Korean women?
14- Why did a Chinese-style examination system to recruit
government officials in Korea never assume the
prominence it gained in Tang and Song dynasty China?
15- What did the elite culture of Vietnam borrow from
China?
16- Identify significant facts about Trung Trac and her
sister.
17- What finally enabled Vietnam to establish itself as a
separate state?
18- How did Japan differ from Korea and Vietnam,
particularly as a result of its geography?
19- Identify significant facts about Shotoku Taishi.
20- What was the Seventeen Article Constitution?
21- Describe Nara and Heian (Kyoto).
22- How was Buddhist culture reflected in Japan?
23- What happened in Japan as political power became
increasingly decentralized?
24- Describe the samurai warrior class of Japan and define
bushido.
25- Describe the native beliefs and practices of Japan and
define kami.
26- How did Shinto provide legitimacy to the imperial
family of Japan?
27- Identify significant facts about The Tale of Genji.
28- Prove that Japan’s women, unlike those in Korea,
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largely escaped the more oppressive features of Chinese
Confucian culture.
29- Why did Japanese women begin to lose status in the
twelfth century?
30- Provide examples of Chinese achievements spreading
abroad.
31- Provide examples of ideas and achievements that China
acquired from other cultures.
32- Draw a smaller version of The World of Asian
Buddhism map.
33- When and how did Buddhism initially enter China?
34- Why was Buddhism at odds with Chinese
understandings of the world in many ways?
35- Why did Buddhism take solid root in China within both
elite and popular culture between 300 and 800 C.E.?
1- Why does the author write that “Byzantium has no clear 12/8
starting point;” why do some historians date its
beginning to 330 C.E., and why is it called Byzantine?
2- Compare the Eastern Roman Empire to the Western
Roman Empire.
3- Draw a smaller version of The Byzantine Empire map.
4- Describe the tightly centralized Byzantine state and its
government.
5- How did the Byzantine centralized state affect people?
6- Why is 1453 a critical year in world history?
7- Identify significant facts about caesaropapism.
8- How did the emperor in Byzantium assume something of
the role of both “Caesar,” as head of state, and pope, as
head of the Church?
9- Provide examples of how Orthodox Christianity had a
pervasive influence on every aspect of Byzantine life.
10- Identify significant differences between Eastern
Orthodoxy and Latin Christianity.
11- What was iconoclasm and why did iconoclasm further
divide the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman
Catholic Church.
12- What were the Crusades and how did the Crusades
make things worse between the Eastern Orthodox
Church and Roman Catholic Church?
13- Describe the Byzantine military innovation known as
“Greek fire.”
14- Prove that the Byzantine Empire was a central player in
the long-distance trade of Eurasia.
15- What did the Byzantines preserve?
16- Who were Cyril and Methodius and how did they
change history?
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17- What stimulated the development of Kievan Rus?
18- What was Prince Vladimir of Kiev searching for and
why did he reject Islam but embrace Orthodox
Christianity?
19- What did Rus borrow from its older and more
sophisticated neighbor, the Byzantine Empire?
20- When and why did Moscow consider itself the “third
Rome”?
21- How did geography affect the western half of the
Christian world?
22- What is the traditional date for marking the fall of
Rome and what happened on that date?
23- What were the effects of the collapse of Rome?
24- How did contact with the Roman Empire affect the
Germanic peoples and what did Germanic rulers
embrace?
25- Identify significant facts about Charlemagne and his
Carolingian Empire as well as the significance of the
year 800.
26- Describe Otto I of Saxony’s Holy Roman Empire.
27- Define serf; how did serfs differ from slaves; and
provide examples of payments and services serfs owed
their lords.
28- How did the Roman Catholic Church fill the vacuum
left by the collapse of empire?
29- Explain the investiture controversy and its outcome.
30- How had invasions affected Europe and what happened
by the year 1000?
31- Identify significant facts about the High Middle Ages.
32- Identify significant facts about the considerable growth
in long-distance trade; describe two centers of
commercial activity in Europe; and provide significant
facts about the population growth in towns and cities.
33- What opportunities did religious life provide women and
why were women often attracted to the religious life?
34- Identify significant facts about the Vikings.
35- Identify many significant facts about the Crusades and
describe the very significant long-term consequences of
the Crusades in Europe.
1- Describe the way of life of the Bedouins.
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2- Why did Mecca come to occupy a distinctive role in
Arabia?
3- Identify significant facts about Muhammad Ibn
Abdullah (570-632 C.E.).
4- According to Muslim tradition, what began in 610 and
why is the Quran important to Muslims?
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5- According to Muslims, why is Muhammad “the seal of
the prophets”?
6- Define umma and what did the umma replace?
7- Identify and explain the Five Pillars of Islam.
8- What is sometimes called the sixth pillar and how does
the “greater jihad” differ from its “lesser” form?
9- Why did Muhammad and his small band of followers
emigrate to the more welcoming town of Yathrib, soon
to be called Medina, the city of the Prophet, in 622; and
what does the date 622 mark in the Islamic calendar?
10- What was membership in the umma based on; who was
all authority – both political and religious –
concentrated in; and what radical changes were
introduced?
11- What happened in 630 and in 632?
12- Define sharia.
13- Identify significant facts about the expansion of Islam
within a few years of Muhammad’s death in 632.
14- Draw a smaller version of The Arab Empire and the
Initial Expansion of Islam, 622-900 C.E. map.
15- Why was the Battle of Talas River significant in world
history?
16- Identify motives driving the creation of an Arab Empire.
17- How did Arab views on Islam change by the middle of
the eighth century and define “people of the book” as
well as explain the treatment of dhimmis (protected
subjects)?
18- Define jizya and why did the jizya encourage
conversion?
19- Identify significant facts about the Rightly Guided
Caliphs (632-661).
20- Describe the deepest and most enduring rift within the
Islamic world – the Sunni/Shia divide.
21- Define ulama and imam as well as how ulama differ
from imams.
22- Identify significant facts about the Umayyad Dynasty
(ruled 661-750).
23- Identify significant facts about the Abbasid Dynasty
(ruled 750-1258).
24- What is sharia based on and why is sharia a blueprint
for an authentic Islamic society?
25- What do Sufis believe and do as well as why do orthodox
religious scholars view Sufis as heretics?
26- Identify the mix of rights, restrictions, and protections
for women provided by the Quran.
27- What did the second caliph, Umar, ask women to do and
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what practices became standard among the upper and
ruling classes regarding women?
28- What happened in the Islamic world in 1258?
29- Identify significant facts about the Sultanate of Delhi.
30- Identify significant facts about Sikhism.
31- What happened in Anatolia by 1500 and what factors
gave rise to the greater number of Islamic converts in
Anatolia than in India?
32- Prove that Islamization did not completely eliminate the
influence of Turkish culture.
33- What accompanied Muslim traders across the Sahara
and how did Islam change West Africa?
34- What appalled Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Arab
visitor to Mali?
35- Identify significant facts about the chief site of the
Islamic encounter with Catholic Europe – Spain or alAndalus as it was called by Muslims.
1- Draw a smaller version of The Mongol Empire map.
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2- What did the Mongols offer the majority of those they
conquered?
3- Identify significant facts about Temujin (1162-1227),
later known as Chinggis Khan (“universal ruler”).
4- Identify the various setbacks that marked the outer
limits of the Mongol Empire.
5- How did the Mongol military reinforce discipline and
loyalty among its soldiers?
6- How did the Mongols compensate for their own small
population and provide examples of how the Mongols
used conquered peoples in their military forces?
7- What is psychological warfare and what role did it serve
in the expansion of the Mongol Empire?
8- Provide examples of the Mongol policy of religious
toleration.
9- What was the most difficult and extended of the
Mongols’ many conquests, lasting some seventy years,
from 1209 to 1279?
10- What did many Chinese believe the Mongols had been
granted and why did many Chinese believe this?
11- Identify many significant facts about the Yuan Dynasty
or the Mongol Dynasty of China.
12- What did Marco Polo observe about the relationship
between the Mongols and their Chinese subjects?
13- What did the Mongols largely ignore in administering
China and what did the Mongols rely on for the
administration of government?
14- Why was Mongol rule in China brief or what factors led
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15- Compare the Mongol conquest of Persia to the Mongol
conquest of China.
16- In what year was Baghdad sacked by the Mongols; what
Islamic caliphate ended as a result of the sacking of
Baghdad; and how many people were massacred in the
sacking of Baghdad according to Hulegu, the grandson
of Chinggis Khan?
17- Describe Mongol rule in Persia.
18- What did Ghazan do in 1295?
19- How did the Mongol assault on Russia differ from
anything experienced by the Persians or the Chinese?
20- What was the Kipchak Khanate, what was the “Khanate
of the Golden Horde;” and what was the Mongol point
of view regarding Russia?
21- Why could the Mongols dominate and exploit Russia
from the steppes?
22- What were Russian princes required to send to the
Mongol capital at Sarai?
23- Why did some Russian princes benefit from Mongol rule
and why did the Russian Orthodox Church flourish?
24- Why was the city of Kiev devastated during the time of
Mongol rule and why did the city of Moscow benefit
from Mongol rule?
25- Prove that the Mongol impact on Russia was greater
than on China and Iran [Persia].
26- What factors allowed the Russians to break the
Mongols’ hold on Russia?
27- What brought East Asia, Europe, and the Islamic lands
into a single interacting network during the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries?
28- Provide many examples of how the Mongols promoted
international commerce.
29- Draw a smaller version of the Trade and Disease in the
Fourteenth Century map.
30- What event spared Europe the trauma of Mongol
conquest?
31- Provide examples of the innovations and goods that the
Mongol’s facilitated as a result of securing the Silk
Roads.
32- Identify many significant facts about the “plague” or
“pestilence” – later called the Black Death – that spread
as a result of the Pax Mongolica.
33- What were the longer-term changes worked in
European society as a result of the devastation of the
Black Death?
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34- Why have nomads generally received “bad press” in
history books?
35- What has led to a less critical or judgmental posture
toward the Mongols in the twentieth century?
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in World History AP thus far. Finally, students will create two
short answer questions with two parts for each question and
answer the questions. Sample short answer questions are found
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1- What did the early decades of the Ming Dynasty (13681/12
1644) of China witness?
2- Describe the Encyclopedia sponsored by Emperor
Yongle (reigned 1402-1422).
3- Describe the largest and most impressive maritime
expeditions the world had ever seen, maritime
expeditions commissioned by Emperor Yongle himself.
4- Why did Chinese authorities simply stop the expeditions
after 1433?
5- What was a cause of the Hundred Years’ War (13371453)?
6- Identify significant facts about the Renaissance.
7- What did “humanists” reflect on; define secular; and
what did Niccolò Machiavelli conclude in his famous
work The Prince?
8- What did the Portuguese initiate in 1415?
9- What happened in 1492 and in 1497?
10- Identify the many ways in which Chinese and European
oceangoing ventures differed.
11- What facilitated European entry into the Indian Ocean
trade network? Why?
12- What was the most impressive and enduring of the new
Islamic states – a state that lasted in one form or another
from the fourteenth to the early twentieth century?
13- Draw a smaller version of the Empires of the Islamic
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14- What happened in 1453 and by 1529 that led many
Europeans to speak fearfully of the “terror of the
Turk”?
15- Identify many significant facts about the Safavid Empire
and in particular the long-term significance of the
Safavid Empire.
16- Identify significant facts about the Ottoman Janissaries.
17- Describe the Songhay Empire and in particular how it
derived much of its revenue.
18- Identify significant facts about the Mughal Empire.
19- Describe the beginnings of the Aztec state.
20- Draw a smaller version of The Americas in the Fifteenth
Century map.
21- Identify significant facts about the Aztec empire and be
sure to comment on Tenochtitlán.
22- Identify significant facts about the pochteca.
23- Explain the Aztec’s cyclical understanding of the world
and particularly why the Aztecs engaged in human
sacrifice.
24- Describe the role of women in the Aztec empire.
25- Describe the origins of the Inca Empire.
26- Compare the Inca Empire to the Aztec Empire.
27- How did the Incas ensure the cultural integration of the
conquered people?
28- Identify significant facts about the mita or labor service
in the Inca Empire.
29- Describe Inca storehouses and their purposes in the Inca
Empire.
30- Explain how “gender parallelism” functioned in the Inca
and Aztec Empires.
31- How did religion link far-flung peoples in the fifteenth
century?
32- How did the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, bring people
together?
33- Describe the long-established patterns of trade that were
much in evidence during the fifteenth century.
34- Why did the Silk Road overland network contract in the
fifteenth century?
35- How did the rise of the Ottoman Empire affect trade?
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1- Describe the demographic collapse of Native American
societies as a result of European conquest.
2- What did the “great dying” create and what was an
effect of the “great dying”?
3- Identify many significant facts about the Columbian
Exchange and be sure to identify the transfer of plants,
animals, and people.
4- Why did American food crops spread widely in the
Eastern Hemisphere and why did these food crops have
a profound effect on the Eastern Hemisphere?
5- What did the silver mines of Mexico and Peru fuel and
what did silver enable Europeans to buy?
6- What did plantation owners of the tropical lowland
regions need and where did they find what they needed?
7- Prove that the long-term benefits of the Atlantic trade
network were very unequally distributed.
8- Define mercantilism and what colonies provided in the
mercantilist view.
9- Describe the distinctive social order that grew up in
Spanish colonies and be sure to comment on
peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, Indians, and Africans.
10- Identify significant facts about mestizos.
11- How were the indigenous peoples, known to Europeans
as “Indians,” treated by Spaniards?
12- Describe the second kind of colonial society that
emerged in Brazil and in the colonies of the Caribbean –
the sugar-based colonies.
13- Describe the horrendous conditions that slaves
encountered on sugar-producing estates.
14- What factors produced a substantial mixed-race
population in Brazil and identify significant facts about
mulattoes?
15- How was slavery different in North America than in the
sugar colonies – be sure to make many comparisons?
16- How did racism differ in colonial Brazil and North
America?
17- Why did the British find “only the dregs [that] were
left” in the Americas and how did British settlers differ
from those from Spain?
18- What aspects of an old European society did many
British settlers seek to escape and what factors made it
more difficult for British settlers to follow the Spanish
or Portuguese colonial pattern of sharp class hierarchy,
large rural estates, and dependent laborers?
19- What religious differences existed between the British
colonies in North America and the Spanish colonies of
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indigenous (Native American Indian) populations of the
respective colonies?
20- Why were British settler colonies able to evolve
traditions of local self-government?
21- Define yasak and describe the yasak from Siberia.
22- How did the Russian expansion into Siberia affect the
peoples of Siberia?
23- What questions arose as a result of Russia’s straddling
of Asia and Europe?
24- How did the Russian acquisition of empire differ from
that of the Western Europeans?
25- Describe the origins of the Qing, or Manchu, dynasty
(1644-1912) of China.
26- Prove that the Chinese or Qing officials did not seek to
assimilate local people into Chinese culture and showed
considerable respect for the Mongolian, Tibetan, and
Muslim cultures of the region.
27- What was the long-term significance of the new Chinese
imperial state?
28- What was the result of the incorporation of the
heartland of Eurasian nomads into the Russian and
Chinese empires?
29- What was the Mughal Empire a product of?
30- Describe the central religious division within Mughal
India – what percentage of the population was Muslim
and what percentage of the population was Hindu.
31- Identify significant facts about Mughal India’s most
famous emperor, Akbar (ruled 1556-1605).
32- Describe Akbar’s policy of religious toleration.
33- Identify significant facts about the reign of Mughal
emperor, Aurangzeb (1658-1707).
34- Identify significant facts about the Ottoman Empire.
35- Draw a smaller version of The Ottoman Empire map.
1- Describe the arena of Indian Ocean commerce into
which Vasco da Gama sailed and what he learned about
Indian Ocean merchant ships.
2- What did the Portuguese create in the Indian Ocean and
how did this Portuguese creation operate?
3- What was a cartaz and how much of the spice trade did
the Portuguese control in the Indian Ocean?
4- What European country was the first to challenge
Portugal’s position and how did this country catch up?
5- Identify significant facts about Ferdinand Magellan and
what his crew discovered.
6- Identify significant facts about Manila and what earned
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7- Why were the Dutch the envy of Europe during the
sixteenth century; how did the British and Dutch
organize Indian Ocean ventures; and how did these East
India Companies operate?
8- Describe what the Dutch encountered on the islands of
Indonesia and how the Dutch controlled the spiceproducing islands.
9- How and why did the British East India Company
operate in India differently than the Dutch East India
Company operated in Indonesia?
10- What happened when some independent English traders
plundered a Mughal ship in 1636?
11- What did British merchants come to focus on more
heavily in India than pepper and spice?
12- What did Portuguese traders and missionaries
encounter in Japan when they first arrived in the midsixteenth century and how did the Portuguese influence
Japan by the second half of the sixteenth century?
13- How did Tokugawa shoguns come to view Europeans by
the end of Japan’s civil wars and what actions did
Tokugawa shoguns take as a result of Europeans?
14- Describe the Tokugawa policy of seclusion or
isolationism for two centuries from 1650 – 1850.
15- What trade gave birth to a genuinely global network of
exchange – be sure to include many facts about this
trade?
16- Identify significant facts about the silver mine at Potosí.
17- How did the silver trade affect Spain and what
prevented Spain from using its silver windfall in a
productive way?
18- Prove that Japan, another major source of silver
production in the sixteenth century, did better than
Spain with its profits from the silver trade.
19- How did silver deepen China’s already substantial
commercialization?
20- What was the Little Ice Age and how did the Little Ice
Age affect the fur trade?
21- How did the Hurons benefit from contact with
Europeans and how were the Hurons harmed by contact
with the Europeans?
22- How did the fur trade negatively affect native Siberians?
23- Identify significant facts about the Atlantic slave trade.
24- Draw a smaller version of The Atlantic Slave Trade
map.
25- Define the African diaspora as well as several effects of
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the African diaspora.
26- How did events in the year 1453 affect the slave trade
and what were the Portuguese mariners exploring at
about the same time and why were the Portuguese
mariners exploring at that time?
27- How did Africans become the primary source of slave
labor for the plantation economies of the Americas?
28- What have scholars argued about the relationship
between slavery and European racism?
29- Why did Europeans die when they entered the African
interior during the early modern era and how did
Europeans obtain African slaves?
30- What happened in the kingdom of the Kongo as a result
of the Atlantic slave trade and what did the Kongo king
Afonso, a convert to Christianity, do in 1526?
31- Describe the journey of African slaves to the Americas
and why some slave leapt out of boats?
32- Where did enslaved Africans come from and what was
the overall mortality rate of the Middle Passage?
33- What was the chief outcome of the Atlantic slave trade
and what impact did the Atlantic slave trade have on
Africa’s growth and why did the Atlantic slave trade
have this impact on Africa’s growth?
34- Identify significant facts about the kingdom of Benin, in
the forest area of present-day Nigeria.
35- Why did the kingdom of Dahomey turn to a vigorous
involvement in the slave trade?
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in World History AP thus far. Finally, students will create two
short answer questions with two parts for each question and
answer the questions. Sample short answer questions are found
in the practice tests of the review book. Answers will consist of
five sentences per question. With two questions consisting of
two parts, students will submit four answers for a total of
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1- What shattered the unity of Roman Catholic
Christianity in the early sixteenth century; where did
the Reformation begin, and what did a German priest,
Martin Luther, post on a church door?
2- What did Luther state in his document and what made
Luther’s protest potentially revolutionary?
3- According to Luther, what was the source of his beliefs
and of religious authority in general?
4- How did some kings, princes, and middle-class urban
dwellers respond to the Protestant Reformation?
5- Why did Reformation teachings and practices not offer
women a greater role in church or society?
6- What invention spread the Reformation and what
happened to the Reformation as it spread?
7- What happened to the French Protestant minority
known as the Huguenots on August 24, 1572 and what
was the Edict of Nantes?
8- Identify significant facts about the Thirty Years’ War
(1618-1648) and what brought this conflict to an end?
9- What did Catholics clarify and reaffirm in the Council
of Trent (1545-1563); describe the crackdown on
dissidents and explain the importance of the Jesuits?
10- How did New England Puritans differ from Catholic
missionaries?
11- Prove that throughout the colonial period and beyond,
many Mexican Christians took part in rituals derived
from the past.
12- Identify significant facts about Matteo Ricci.
13- How did the religious and cultural outcomes of the
missionary enterprise differ in the Spanish Empire and
in China?
14- Identify significant facts about how African religious
ideas and practices found a place in the Africanized
versions of Christianity that emerged in the “New
World” and specifically the syncretic (blended) religions
such as Vodou in Haiti, Santeria in Cuba, and
Candomble and Macumba in Brazil.
15- What did continued Islamization depend on and why
were these wandering Muslim holy men often useful to
rulers and their village communities?
16- How did orthodox Muslims view this religious
syncretism?
17- Identify significant facts about the young Muslim
theologian, Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792).
18- Describe the state that was created when Abd alWahhab joined forces with Muhammad Ibn Saud.
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19- What was the Neo-Confucianism of the Ming and Qing
dynasties and what did the influential thinker Wang
Yangmin believe?
20- What was kaozheng and what was kaozheng critical of?
21- Describe the devotional form of Hinduism known as
bhakti and who did bhakti appeal to as well as what did
the bhakti movement set aside?
22- Identify significant facts about the bhakti poet, Mirabai.
23- Identify significant facts about Sikhism, a religion
founded by Guru Nanak (1469-1539).
24- What was the long-term significance of the Scientific
Revolution?
25- Why is it surprising that the Scientific Revolution first
occurred in Europe and not the Arab world or China?
26- Prove the importance of the autonomy of emerging
universities for the development of science in the West.
27- How did madrassas differ from European universities?
28- What did Chinese education focus on and how did this
focus affect scientific subjects?
29- Prove that Western Europe was able to draw extensively
upon the knowledge of other cultures and how did this
borrowing affect the findings of Copernicus?
30- What view did educated Europeans hold of the world
derived from Aristotle and from Ptolemy prior to the
Scientific Revolution and why did this understanding
coincide well with the religious purpose of the Catholic
Church?
31- Identify significant facts about Nicolaus Copernicus.
32- What did Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei
conclude?
33- Why did the culmination of the Scientific Revolution
come in the work of Sir Isaac Newton?
34- What was the European Enlightenment and identify
significant facts about Adam Smith, John Locke, and
Voltaire?
35- What was the central theme of the Enlightenment and
how did the age of Enlightenment also witness a reaction
against too much reliance on human reason?
1- Prove that for much of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, the British colonies in North America enjoyed
a considerable degree of autonomy.
2- Describe the societies developed by English settlers.
3- What did the American Revolution grow out of; why did
the British abandon its neglectful oversight of the
colonies; and how did Britain begin to act like a genuine
imperial power?
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4- Why was the American experience revolutionary and
why was the American experience not revolutionary?
5- What did the American Revolution initiate and what
new ideas contained in the new U.S. Constitution put
Enlightenment ideas into practice?
6- Why was France on the verge of bankruptcy and what
happened when the French king, Louis XVI, called into
session an ancient parliamentary body, the Estates
General – be sure to describe the three “estates” of
France and why representatives of the Third Estate soon
organized themselves as the National Assembly in 1789?
7- How was the French Revolution quite different from its
North American predecessor?
8- What did initial efforts to establish a constitutional
monarchy give rise to in France; what did the National
Assembly decree the end of; and what happened to King
Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie Antoinette?
9- Identify significant facts about the Reign of Terror and
be sure to include information on Maximilien
Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety, the
guillotine, and efforts to create a new society.
10- What was the impact of the French Revolution?
11- Identify many significant facts about Napoleon
Bonaparte (ruled 1799-1814).
12- What happened in the colony of Saint Domingue in 1791
and what occurred amid the confusion, brutality, and
massacres of the 1790s – be sure to include information
about Toussaint Louverture?
13- Why was the revolution that occurred in Saint
Domingue something remarkable and unprecedented?
14- Explain the meaning of the cautionary phrase:
“remember Haiti” and how did this cautionary phrase
affect Latin America in particular.
15- Why did the Haitian Revolution lead to a temporary
expansion of slavery elsewhere and how did Napoleon’s
defeat in Haiti affect world history?
16- Where did the final act in a half century of Atlantic
Revolutionary upheaval take place?
17- Why were creoles offended and insulted by the Spanish
monarchy and what had creole intellectuals become
familiar with?
18- What did Napoleon do in 1808 that led to legitimate
royal authority in the Latin American colonies being in
a state of disarray?
19- Why did the process for independence last more than
twice as long in Latin America as it did in North
America – be sure to include facts about Mexico’s move
toward independence and particularly the two priests,
Miguel Hidalgo and José Morelos and the great fear that
existed among creole landowners in Latin American that
had little counterpart in North America?
20- Draw a smaller version of the Latin American
Independence map.
21- Describe nativism or the answer to the dilemma of
gaining the support of “the people” used by regional
military and independence leaders in Latin America
such as Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín.
22- Which groups benefitted little from Latin America’s
independence movements?
23- Why did no United States of Latin America emerge and
what did Simón Bolívar write in despair to a friend as
his dream of a unified South America perished amid the
rivalries of separate countries?
24- What did abolitionists seek; what did nationalists seek;
and what did feminists seek?
25- Why were Enlightenment thinkers in eighteenth-century
Europe increasingly critical of slavery and how did the
actions of slaves themselves likewise hasten the end of
slavery?
26- What was the last country in the Americas to abolish
slavery; when did this country abolish slavery; and what
persuaded the Russian tsar to free the many serfs of that
country in 1861?
27- Why were large numbers of indentured servants from
India and China imported into the Caribbean, Peru,
South Africa, Hawaii, Malaya, and elsewhere?
28- Prove that newly freed people did not achieve anything
close to political equality, except in Haiti.
29- How did the end of serfdom in Russia differ from the
situation in the Americas and yet why did most Russian
peasants remain impoverished and politically volatile?
30- How did the closing of the external slave trade affect
West and East Africa and what was one of the
justifications Europeans used for their imposed colonial
rule on Africa in the late nineteenth century?
31- What did the French Revolution declare about
sovereignty and how did the revolutionary government
of France with its mass conscription (levée en masse) as
well as Napoleon’s conquests stimulate nationalism and
nationalist sentiment?
32- What did nationalism inspire and encourage – be sure to
include information about Germany and Italy by 1871
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and independence movements as well as “home rule”
and Zionism?
33- What was the “Egypt for Egyptians” movement and
what was the Indian National Congress?
34- What possibility did the French Revolution raise and
what did Olympe de Gouges write and proclaim?
35- Where did the first organized expression of the new
feminism take place and how did Elizabeth Cady
Stanton paraphrase the Declaration of Independence?
1- Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Europe?
2- Prove that Europe’s Scientific Revolution took a
distinctive form in Great Britain, a distinctive form that
fostered technological innovation.
3- What accidents of geography and history also
contributed something to Britain’s Industrial
Revolution?
4- Why did individual landowning aristocrats suffer little
in material terms from the Industrial Revolution?
5- Yet why did the British aristocracy decline as a result of
the Industrial Revolution?
6- What social class benefitted most conspicuously from
industrialization and who were the individuals of its
upper levels?
7- Describe the middle class politically and what did they
politically favor as well as what was the Reform Bill of
1832?
8- What ideas characterized middle-class culture?
9- What were women in middle-class families increasingly
cast as and describe the “ideology of domesticity”?
10- What group was the overwhelming majority of Britain’s
nineteenth-century population – some 70 percent or
more – and why did they suffer the most and benefit the
least from the epic transformations of the Industrial
Revolution?
11- Identify significant facts about the rapid urbanization of
British society during the Industrial Revolution.
12- Describe Britain’s cities during the Industrial
Revolution.
13- Describe the very different work environment of the
industrial factories than the artisan’s shop or the
tenant’s farm.
14- When were trade unions legalized in Great Britain;
what were the goals of trade unions; and how did one
British newspaper describe unions in 1834?
15- Identify significant facts about Robert Owen (17711858).
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16- Describe the life and ideas of Karl Marx (1818-1883).
17- What did Marx proclaim about capitalism in the
Communist Manifesto and why, according to Marx,
could capitalist societies never deliver on that promise?
18- How did Marx describe capitalism; what would the
working-class lead; and what kind of society would the
working-class create – according to Marx?
19- Identify significant facts about the Labour Party in
Great Britain.
20- What was the major factor in producing a moderate
working-class movement; what stood between “the
captains of industry” and the workers; and in what ways
had workers bettered their standard of living within a
capitalist framework?
21- In what industry did American industrialization begin
and when did industrialization in the United States grow
explosively?
22- What factors combined to make the United States the
world’s leading industrial power by 1914?
23- What happened in 1892 at the Homestead steel plant
and what was intense in the industrial America of the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
24- Describe the relative conservatism of major American
union organizations.
25- What factors undermined the class solidarity of
American workers as well as reasons for the on average
higher standard of living for American workers than
their European counterparts?
26- Identify significant facts about the American
“Populists.”
27- What did Progressives seek to remedy and how did they
seek to remedy these ills?
28- What came to be viewed as “un-American” and why?
29- Describe Russia at the beginning of the twentieth
century and describe most Russians until 1861 as well as
how Russian nobles differed from their serfs.
30- How did Peter the Great implement “transformation
from above” in Russia – include many facts about his
program of westernization as well as the efforts of one of
his successors, Catherine the Great?
31- Identify significant results of the Crimean War (18541856) on Russia as well as the Russian state’s efforts to
begin a program of industrial development.
32- Why did Russian factory workers quickly develop an
unusually radical class consciousness and why did
Russia erupt in spontaneous insurrection in 1905?
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33- Identify the effects of the 1905 revolution in Russia.
34- How did World War I affect Russia?
35- Describe political life and social life in Latin America
after independence.
1- Describe the new kind of racism – expressed now in
terms of modern science – that Europeans developed
during the industrial age – and its hierarchy of races.
2- Explain the concept of the “civilizing mission.”
3- Describe the concept of “social Darwinism.”
4- Identify many significant facts about the Taiping
Uprising which set much of China aflame between 1850
and 1864 – particularly facts about Hong Xiuquan
(1814-1864) and the revolutionary change that the
Taiping rebels wanted as well as Hong Rengan’s plans.
5- How was the Taiping Rebellion crushed in 1864 and how
many lives were lost as a result of the Taiping Rebellion?
6- How did opium importation affect China and how did it
reverse China’s centuries-long ability to attract much of
the world’s silver supply as well as provide several facts
about China’s opium addicts?
7- Identify significant facts about Commissioner Lin Zexu
and his views and actions regarding opium.
8- What was a significant cause of the Opium War in 1839
and what were the British terms of the Treaty of
Nanjing which ended the conflict in 1842?
9- By the end of the century, what had Western nations
plus Japan and Russia carved out within China and
what special privileges were granted?
10- Identify many significant facts about the “selfstrengthening” movement during the 1860s and 1870s.
11- Identify significant facts about the Boxer Rebellion.
12- What was the immensely powerful force of Chinese
nationalism directed against; what was the Qing
dynasty’s response to these new pressures; and what
happened in 1911 in China?
13- Describe the Ottoman Empire in 1750 and how the
Ottoman Empire changed by the middle, and certainly
by the end, of the nineteenth century – be sure to include
a fact on “the sick man of Europe.”
14- What had the once feared Janissaries, the elite military
corps of the Ottoman state become and what factors
gradually drained the proud sovereignty of the once
mighty Ottoman Empire?
15- Identify many significant facts about Tanzimat
(“reorganization”).
16- Describe the revolutionary changes in the legal status of
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the Ottoman Empire’s diverse communities.
17- How did the ulama (religious scholars) and Janissaries
react to the modest innovations of Selim III and what
happened to Selim III in 1807?
18- Identify significant facts about the “Young Ottomans.”
19- Identify many significant facts about the Young Turks.
20- What was the result of the military coup in 1908 which
allowed the Young Turks to exercise real power?
21- What happened to the Ottoman Empire following
World War I and what informed the policies of the
Turkish republic that replaced it?
22- What followed the collapse of the imperial system in
China in 1911 and what followed the collapse of the
Ottoman Empire following World War I?
23- Identify significant facts about U.S. Commodore
Matthew Perry and his arrival in Tokyo Bay in 1853.
24- How did successive Tokugawa shoguns give Japan more
than two centuries of internal peace – be sure to include
facts about what the shoguns did to control the restive
daimyo as well as its highly detailed rules?
25- What happened to the samurai in the absence of wars to
fight; what did centuries of peace in Japan contribute
to; and what changes during the Tokugawa era
provided a solid foundation for Japan’s remarkable
industrial growth in the late nineteenth century?
26- Why and how had Japan deliberately limited its contact
with the West to a single port and how did the Japanese
authorities treat shipwrecked sailors or whalers?
27- Why did United States authorities send Commodore
Perry to Japan in 1853?
28- What did Japan agree to as a result of Commodore
Perry’s arrival in Japan; why did Japan agree; and
what was the decisive turning point in Japan’s history?
29- Identify significant facts about the Meiji Restoration in
Japan.
30- Describe the widespread and eager fascination with
almost everything Western that occurred in Japan
during the early years of the Meiji Restoration.
31- How did this initial wave of uncritical enthusiasm for
everything Western begin to change and how did the
Japanese constitution of 1889 reflect this selective
borrowing approach?
32- Identify many significant facts about Japan’s stateguided industrialization program.
33- Describe the conditions that Japan’s textile workers
(mostly female) encountered.
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34- Why was the budding labor movement crushed in Japan
by the end of 1901?
35- Why were Western powers persuaded to revise their
unequal treaties in Japan’s favor?
1- Identify significant characteristics of the second and
quite distinct round of European colonial conquests (the
century and a half between 1750 and 1900).
2- Draw the Colonial Asia in the Early Twentieth Century
map.
3- What was the “scramble for Africa”?
4- How was the British takeover of the South Pacific
territories of Australia and New Zealand during the
nineteenth century similar to the earlier colonization of
North America than to contemporary patterns of Asian
and African conquest?
5- Draw a smaller version of the Conquest and Resistance
in Colonial Africa map.
6- When did the United States take over the Philippines
from Spain and how did 13,000 freed U.S. slaves change
a West African territory that they renamed Liberia?
7- Why were Ethiopia and Siam (Thailand) notable?
8- Describe the Western-educated class in the European
colonies.
9- Identify significant facts about the Indian Rebellion or
Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-1858.
10- Identify significant characteristics of colonies that had a
large European settler population and in particular the
colony of South Africa.
11- What did the Europeans sometimes invent within
African colonies?
12- Define subsistence farming and why did it diminish in
the Age of Imperialism?
13- How did a flood of inexpensive textiles from Britain’s
new factories affect the lives of tens of thousands of
India’s handloom weavers?
14- Explain “statue labor” in French Africa.
15- Describe the most infamous cruelties of forced labor
during the early twentieth century in the Congo Free
State, governed personally by Leopold II of Belgium.
16- Explain the so-called cultivation system of the
Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia).
17- Describe the profitable cash-crop farming that
developed in the southern Gold Coast (present-day
Ghana), a British territory in West Africa.
18- Why did specializing in one or two cash crops in many
colonies create an unhealthy dependence?
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19- Describe the working conditions on plantations financed
from Europe which grew sugarcane, rubber, tea,
tobacco, sisal (used for making rope), and more – be
sure to note one fact about southern Vietnam in 1927.
20- What did a 1913 law in South Africa state about land
ownership and what was surprising about this law?
21- Identify significant facts about the rapidly swelling cities
of the colonial world.
22- How did women’s lives in Africa change as the demands
of the colonial economy grew?
23- In South Africa what percentage of able-bodied adult
men were absent from the rural areas and what
percentage of women headed households?
24- How did colonial rule further the integration of Asian
and African economies into a global network of
exchange?
25- What elements of their own modernizing process did the
Europeans convey to the colonies?
26- Describe India after two centuries of colonial rule by the
world’s first industrial society, Britain.
27- What did Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister of
an independent Ghana, declare when he paraphrased
Jesus?
28- What generated a new identity for an important
minority in the colonies and what did this new
acquisition provide an escape from in the colonies?
29- What did Western-educated people in nineteenthcentury India seek and what did Ram Mohan Roy
(1772-1833) want from the colonial regime?
30- What was Christianity widely associated with –
especially in Africa and what groups found new
opportunities and greater freedom in some association
with missions?
31- Describe how Christianity in Africa became Africanized
– be sure to provide many examples.
32- Identify significant facts about Swami Vivekananda
(1863-1902).
33- According to Swami Vivekananda, what could a revived
Hinduism offer to a Western world mired in materialism
and militarism?
34- What did Swami Vivekananda say at the World
Parliament of Religions held in 1893 in Chicago?
35- What did the new notion of Hinduism provide but also
what did it contribute a clearer sense to Muslims of?
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1- What had generally maintained the peace among
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Europe’s major countries since the defeat of Napoleon in
1815 and what were the two rival alliances in Europe by
the early twentieth century?
2- Identify significant facts about the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 and the
effects of the assassination.
3- Why was the outbreak of war an accident and what
made Europe prone to that kind of accident?
4- Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the conflict and why
did the United States, after initially seeking to avoid
involvement in European quarrels, finally join the war?
5- Identify facts about “trench warfare,” “total war,” “war
socialism,” and the role of women in the economy as a
result of the war.
6- Draw a smaller version of the Europe and the Middle
East after World War I map.
7- What were the effects of the Treaty of Versailles on
Germany?
8- What did Ottoman authorities suspect that some of their
Armenian population did and what was the outcome of
that suspicion as well as what happened to the Ottoman
Empire and its lands after World War I?
9- Identify significant facts about the role of the United
States after the First World War, Woodrow Wilson, the
Fourteen Points, the League of Nations, and the
principle of collective security.
10- What were significant causes of the Great Depression?
11- What did John Maynard Keynes, a prominent British
economist argue about government actions during
economic depressions and how did U.S. President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt reflect Keynes’ thinking in
his New Deal programs?
12- What were the common features of Italy, Germany, and
Japan after World War I?
13- Identify significant facts about fascism.
14- How did the rise of a fascist movement affect Spain?
15- Identify significant facts about Benito Mussolini (18831945) and the actions of the Black Shirts.
16- What were the Lateran Accords of 1929; how were
women portrayed in fascist propaganda; and what did
the Italian fascists attempt to avenge in 1935?
17- How was the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
similar to the leadership of Benito Mussolini; how did
the end of World War I affect the German state; and
what myth arose in Germany after World War I?
18- Identify significant facts about Adolf Hitler’s National
Socialist, or Nazi, Party.
19- What did Adolf Hitler use the Jews as a symbol of and
what were the Nuremberg Laws as well as what
happened on Kristallnacht?
20- Describe the accumulated tensions in Japan in the 1920s.
21- What was the Peace Preservation Law in 1925?
22- How did the Great Depression pave the way for harsher
and more authoritarian action in Japan?
23- What beliefs did members of Radical Nationalism or the
Revolutionary Right have in common?
24- How did Japanese public life clearly change in ways that
reflected the growth of right-wing nationalist thinking in
the 1930s?
25- How did Japan emerge more rapidly and more fully
than major Western countries from the great
Depression and how did the government increasingly
assume a supervisory or managerial role in economic
affairs – in addition, define zaibatsu?
26- Prove that Japan during the 1930s remained, at least
internally, a less repressive and more pluralistic society
than both fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
27- What ambitions of Germany, Italy, and Japan collided
with the interests of established world powers such as
the United States and Britain that launched a second,
and even more terrible, global war?
28- Where did World War II begin and include information
about the puppet state called Manchukuo as well as the
significance of the year 1937?
29- Prove that Japan was quite dependent on foreign and
especially American sources of strategic goods.
30- Draw a smaller version of the World War II in Asia
map.
31- Describe Japan’s military actions in 1940-1941.
32- How did the Japanese present themselves as the
liberators and modernizers of their Pacific empire and
did experience show this concern or another concern?
33- Identify significant facts about the Japanese attack on
the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in
December 1941 and the consequence of Japan’s action.
34- What nations constituted the Axis powers?
35- What nations constituted the Allies?
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1- Identify the steps Hitler took as he prepared the country
for war and pursued territorial expansion.
2- Identify significant facts about the Rape of Nanjing in
1937-1938.
3- How were women affected by the Second World War –
be sure to include information about “Rosie the
Riveter”?
4- Identify significant facts about the Holocaust.
5- How did the ending of the Second World War affect
Europe and Europe’s colonies?
6- Identify significant facts about the consolidation and
extension of the communist world as a further outcome
of World War II.
7- What did the horrors of two world wars within a single
generation prompt and describe its chief outcome, the
United Nations (UN)?
8- Describe the United States – in regards to its foreign
policy – following World War I and the United States –
in regards to its status – following World War II.
9- Identify significant facts about the Marshall Plan.
10- Describe the European Coal and Steel Community and
its evolution into the European Economic Community
(EEC) and ultimately the European Union.
11- Identify significant facts about the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO).
12- Describe Japan during American occupation between
1945 and 1952 as well as its “economic miracle.”
13- How were the communist revolutions similar to the
French Revolution and how were the communist
revolutions different from the French Revolution?
14- Why did communists come to power in Russia in 1917?
15- Prove that the Provisional Government was inadequate.
16- Identify significant facts about the Bolsheviks and
Vladimir Ulyanov, commonly known as Lenin.
17- What was Lenin and the Bolshevik Party’s message to
the Russian people in the desperate circumstances of
1917 and what did Lenin and the Bolsheviks call for?
18- Identify significant facts about Russia’s civil war. (19181921).
19- What did the Bolsheviks – now officially calling their
party “communist” – rename their country and why did
the Soviet Union remain a communist island in a
capitalist sea for the next twenty-five years?
20- How was communism largely imposed on Eastern
Europe from outside rather than growing out of a
domestic revolution as had happened in Russia itself?
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21- Identify significant facts about the communist
movement in Yugoslavia and in particular, its leader
Josef Broz, known as Tito.
22- What significant events occurred in China during the
following years: 1949, 1911, and 1921?
23- What was the Long March and why was it significant?
24- Identify significant facts about the Guomindang, or
Nationalist Party, and its leader, Chiang Kai-shek.
25- How did the CCP or Chinese Communist Party gain
support among the country’s peasants?
26- How did Japan’s brutal invasion of China affect the civil
war in China between the Guomindang and the CCP?
27- Explain the “totalitarian” model of these communist
regimes.
28- Look at page 669 in the textbook – identify significant
facts about The Marriage Law of 1950.
29- Describe the prolonged and difficult process of land
reform in China after 1949 and why was it “not a dinner
party” as Mao Zedong, the communist leader of China,
once put it?
30- Identify significant facts about collective farms in the
Soviet Union from 1928 to 1933 and be sure to include
the treatment of the kulaks.
31- What was China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s
and what were the effects of the Great Leap Forward?
32- Describe the Soviet model of active industrialization –
make note of five-year plans and the effects of
industrialization.
33- Identify more facts about The Great Leap Forward of
1958 – 1960.
34- What factors threw China into a severe crisis, including
a massive famine that brought death and malnutrition to
some 20 million people between 1959 and 1962?
35- Identify significant facts about the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution.
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1- Describe the U.S. as World War II ended and what one
American economist wrote about American goods in
1945.
2- How did Nikita Khrushchev stun his country and
communists everywhere?
3- Why did Soviet forces actually invade their supposed
allies in Hungary (1956-1957) and Czechoslovakia (1968)
as well as seriously threaten Poland with similar action
in the early 1980s?
4- What happened in China following the death of its
towering revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong, in 1976?
5- Why is 1989 called the “miracle year”?
6- What happened in the Soviet Union in 1991?
7- Describe the highly regimented and stagnate Soviet
economy.
8- What was the moral failure of communism?
9- Identify many significant facts about Deng Xiaoping,
especially his economic reforms.
10- What was the Communist party in China unwilling to
relinquish despite its willingness to largely abandon
communist economic policies?
11- How did Deng Xiaoping respond to a democracy
movement spearheaded by university and secondary
school students in the late 1980s in Beijing’s Tiananmen
Square?
12- Identify significant facts about Mikhail Gorbachev’s
economic program launched in 1987 known as
perestroika or “restructuring.”
13- Identify significant facts about Mikhail Gorbachev’s
policy known as glasnost or “openness.”
14- How did Gorbachev move to end the cold war?
15- What events happened during the “miracle year” of
1989?
16- Identify significant facts about the short-lived
conservative attempt to restore the old order in the
Soviet Union in August 1991.
17- What were the effects of the Soviet collapse – a collapse
that represented a unique phenomenon in the world of
the late twentieth century?
18- Draw a smaller version of The Collapse of the Soviet
Empire map.
19- What were some of the fundamental contradictions in
the European colonial enterprise and what were some of
the factors that gave rise to independence movements in
the colonies after the post-World War II era?
20- How did the British differ from earlier invaders of India
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and what factors united Indians?
21- Identify significant facts about the Indian National
Congress (INC) – be sure to note how the INC began to
change in the aftermath of World War I.
22- Identify many significant facts about Mohandas Gandhi
(1869-1948) – be sure to include information about
Satyagraha (“truth force”), views on untouchables, and
his views for the future of the country.
23- What was the All-India Muslim League; why did it
form; and who was the leader of the Muslim League as
well as what did this leader call for?
24- How did colonial India become independent in 1947 and
what was the consequence of the partitioning of the
subcontinent?
25- Describe South Africa when it became independent of
Great Britain in 1910.
26- Identify significant facts about apartheid.
27- What was the ANC – when was it established and what
did it pursue for the first four decades and why did its
strategies change during the 1950s?
28- Identify significant facts about Nelson Mandela as well
as the South African government’s response to
Mandela’s ideas and actions – be sure to include the
Sharpeville Massacre and the government’s ban and
imprisoning.
29- What happened in Soweto in 1976 and why did these
events occur?
30- What pressures did the South African government face
and what did the South African government begin by
the late 1980s as well as what was the outcome of the
government’s actions – be sure to note the very
significant year of 1994?
31- Identify significant facts about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
32- Describe Atatürk’s dramatic national cultural
revolution of the 1920s and 1930s – be sure to include
specific reforms.
33- Identify significant facts about Iran in the 1970s –
particularly opposition to the American-supported
government of the shah, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
(reigned 1941-1979).
34- What did Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini believe was the
purpose of government?
35- What did the new regime of Iran culturally seek for the
country and how was this goal achieved?
Review
This assignment will be typed and submitted via email as a
Word Document.
4/13
Students will read thirty pages in a World History AP Review
book. Students will create a chart with three columns: Facts I
Know, Facts I Know but Need to Practice, Facts I Do Not
Know. Students will also begin the creation of a timeline of
important dates in World History AP. Finally, students will
create two short answer questions with two parts for each
question and answer the questions. Sample short answer
questions are found in the practice tests of the review book.
Answers will consist of five sentences per question. With two
questions consisting of two parts, students will submit four
answers for a total of twenty sentences (five sentences per each
part).
Review
This assignment will be typed and submitted via email as a
Word Document.
4/20
Students will read thirty pages in a World History AP Review
book. Students will create a chart with three columns: Facts I
Know, Facts I Know but Need to Practice, Facts I Do Not
Know. Each student will continue to add to his/her timeline of
important dates in World History AP. Finally, students will
create two short answer questions with two parts for each
question and answer the questions. Sample short answer
questions are found in the practice tests of the review book.
Answers will consist of five sentences per question. With two
questions consisting of two parts, students will submit four
answers for a total of twenty sentences (five sentences per each
part).
Review
This assignment will be typed and submitted via email as a
Word Document.
Students will read thirty pages in a World History AP Review
book. Students will create a chart with three columns: Facts I
Know, Facts I Know but Need to Practice, Facts I Do Not
Know. Each student will continue to add to his/her timeline of
important dates in World History AP. Finally, students will
create two short answer questions with two parts for each
question and answer the questions. Sample short answer
questions are found in the practice tests of the review book.
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Answers will consist of five sentences per question. With two
questions consisting of two parts, students will submit four
answers for a total of twenty sentences (five sentences per each
part).
Review
This assignment will be typed and submitted via email as a
Word Document.
5/4
Students will read thirty pages in a World History AP Review
book. Students will create a chart with three columns: Facts I
Know, Facts I Know but Need to Practice, Facts I Do Not
Know. Each student will continue to add to his/her timeline of
important dates in World History AP. Finally, students will
create two short answer questions with two parts for each
question and answer the questions. Sample short answer
questions are found in the practice tests of the review book.
Answers will consist of five sentences per question. With two
questions consisting of two parts, students will submit four
answers for a total of twenty sentences (five sentences per each
part).
After this assignment, there are almost two weeks before the
Advanced Placement Examination in World History. Students
are strongly encouraged to take as many practice tests as
possible in their review books.
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AP World History Examination
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