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AP World History
Review Roundup-Topics Assigned
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Foundations—8000 BCE to 600 CE
 Basic features of early civilizations in different environments
Civilizations—Mesopotamia, Egypt, Harappan (Indus Valley), Shang, Mesoamerica, and
Andean South America
Features—culture, state, and social structure
(#1) Vince Gonzalez, Samantha Bayer
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Classical civilizations--political developments, social/gender structures, trading patterns and
other contacts, arts, sciences, technology
China- (#2)Ha-Young Yu, Abby Brown
India- (#3)Charley Luo
Mediterranean-(#4)Tripp Hutson
Mesoamerican- (#5)Alex Lilly
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Major Belief Systems-basic features and location of major world belief systems prior to 600 CE
(#6)Jon Stoll
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Collapse of Classical Empires (Han, Gupta, Rome)—What happened? Why? Why was collapse
in west more severe?
(#7)Samantha Weissert
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Movements of peoples (Bantu, Huns, Germans, Polynesians) (#8)Annabelle Edwards
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Interregional networks by 600 CE: trade and spread of religions
(#9)Elizabeth Sheeks, Tyler Romeu
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Compare the role of women in different belief systems—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism,
and Hinduism
(#10)Joe Black, Julie Gardiner
600-1450 CE
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The Islamic World—rise and role of Dar-al-Islam as a unifying cultural and economic force in
Eurasia and Africa, Islamic political structures (esp. caliphate), arts, sciences, and technologies
(#11)Eden Woubshet
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Development and shifts in interregional trade, technology, and cultural exchange
Trans-Sahara trade, Indian Ocean trade, Silk Roads, economic innovations (Tang,
Song, early Ming, Swahili Coast trade, economic systems in the Americas)
(#12)Maura Bowden, Mallory Zimmerman
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Missionary outreach of major religions (#13) Nathan Fleischmann
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Contacts between major religions (Islam and Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, any others you
can think of for this time period)
(#14) Adison Picchi
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Political Systems and Cultural Patterns:
East Asia—China’s expansion, Chinese influence on surrounding areas
(Japan, Vietnam, Korea), Change and continuities in
Confucianism
(#15) Sam Darby, Caroline Hardison
The Americas—apex and decline of the Maya, rise of the Aztec, rise of
the Inca
(#16) Bryanna Thomas, Natalie Kieta
Restructuring of Europe—decentralization (medieval society), division
of Christianity, revival of cities
(#17) Connor Fissel, Ellyn Mikkelson
Africa—Sudanic empires (Mali, Ghana, Songhay), and the Swahili Coast
(#18) Rebecca Neuman, Jordyn Sessoms
South Asia and Southeast Asia—Delhi Sultanate, Vietnam
(#19)Nick Cantu, Eugene Kim
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Impact of migrations on Afro-Eurasia and the Americas (e.g. Aztecs, Mongols, Turks, Vikings,
Arabs) (#20) Alex Dulock
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Compare the role and function of cities in major societies
(#21) Myka Murphy
Compare the developments in political and social institutions in both eastern and western Europe
(#22)Raphaella Jackson
Compare Japanese and European feudalism—(#23) Wade Miletto
Compare European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world
(#24)Ryan Devetski
Analyze the Chinese civil service exam system and the rise of meritocracy
(#25)Rebecca Arndt, Nick Rodgers
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1450-1750:
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Changes in trade, technology, and global interactions—the Columbian Exchange, the impact of
guns, changes in shipbuilding, and navigational devices
(#26) Michael Norton
Slave systems and slave trade— (#27)Eliott Chapuis
Demographic and environmental changes: diseases, animals, new crops, and comparative
population trends— (#28) Grace Roberts, Matthew Burchfield
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment— (#29) Taylor Porter
Comparative global causes and impacts of cultural change (ex. African contributions to cultures
in the Americas—(#30)Connor Smith, Julie Saxton
Creation of new religions-Vodun, Zen, Sikhism, Protestantism (#31) Corie Gutierrez,
Major developments and exchanges in the arts (ex. Mughal, the Americas)—(#32) Rudy
Dimitrov, Jim Christopher
Compare colonial administrations— (#33) Kim Johnson
Compare coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in the Americas—
(#34) Gabe Frascella
Analyze the development of empire (i.e. General empire building in Asia, Africa, Europe, and
the Americas)—(#35)Sam Morley, Connor Johnson
Analyze imperial systems: a European seaborne empire compared with a land-based Asian
empire—(#36) Sofia Niarchos
Compare Russia’s interaction with two of the following: Ottoman Empire, China, western
Europe, and eastern Europe— (#37)Nathan Shuart
Compare Mesoamerican and Andean systems of exchange—(#38) Zach Strongin
1750-1914
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Changes in global commerce, communications, and technology
o Industrial Revolution (transformative effects on and differential timing in different
societies; mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments; commonalities)
Changes in patterns of world trade
(#39) Chris Wheeler, David Monteleone
Demographic and environmental changes (migrations; end of the Atlantic slave trade; new
birthrate patterns; food supply; medicine)—(#40)Mary Kathryn Harrington, Paul Bohn
Changes in social and gender structure (Industrial Revolution; commercial and demographic
developments; emancipation of serfs/slaves; tension between work patterns and ideas about
gender; new forms of labor systems)— (#41) Brock Matter
Political revolutions & independence movements; new political ideas
 US and Latin American independence movements (#42) Jeff Anderson
 French, Haitian, Mexican, Chinese revolutions (#43) Zach Allen
 Rise of nationalism, nation-states, and movements for political reform (#44) Caleb
Beaver
Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial Revolution in western Europe and Japan
(#45)Sarah Murphy, Bennett Eldredge
Compare reaction to foreign interference in the Ottoman Empire, China, India, Southeast Asia,
and Japan— (#46) Ketki Desai, Zach Clevenger
Compare nationalism in the following pairs: China and Japan, Egypt and Italy, Pan-Africanism
and the Indian Congress Movement—(#47) Drew Cuttic
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1914-present
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Explain forms of Western intervention in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia
(#48)Christian Einertson
Compare the roles and conditions of elite women in Latin America with those in western Europe
before 1850— (#49)Molly Zimmerman, Cara DeBenedictis
Compare patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and India— (#50) Marin Abousaud,
Travis Grooms
Compare the effects on women in the following revolutions: Chinese Russian, Cuban, Iranian)
(#51)Matthew Rathbone
Compare legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America—(#52)Samantha Askin, Doug Hansen
Analyze nationalist ideologies and movements in contrasting European and colonial
environments— (#53)Alex Mattle, Tyler Molinaro
Assess different proposals (or models) for economic growth in the developing world and the
social and political consequences – (#54)Abhishek Deo, Ben Murray