AP World History Flashcards

Flashcards for reviewing key vocabulary and concepts from the AP World History curriculum (1200-present).

Global Tapestry (1200-1450)

A review of different peoples and cultures from six different AP Regions from 1200-1450.

East Asia Song China

China, Confucianism, Buddhism, Civil Service Exam, Champa Rice, Filial Piety, Grand Canal

Dar al-Islam

Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate, House of Wisdom, Algebra, Medicine and Philosophy, Start of Turkic rule, Sufism

South and Southeast Asia

Delhi Sultanate, Hinduism and Buddhism, Bhakti Movement, Sufism, Buddhist and Hindu states

Americas

Incan Empire, Aztec Empire, Mayan City States, Mit'a System, Incan Road, Human Sacrifice, Chinampa, Tenochtitlan

Africa

Great Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mali, Timbuktu, Salt and Gold, Islam, Ibn Battuta, Swahili, Mansa Musa, Camel Caravans

Europe

Feudalism, Manorialism, Serfdom, Crusades, Black Death, Marco Polo

Networks of Exchange (1200-1450)

Connectivity of Afro-Eurasia via major trade routes, including cultural and environmental consequences, and the Mongols.

The Silk Roads

Kashgar/Samarkand, Caravanserai, Paper Money, Flying Cash, Banking, Porcelain, Chinese Iron/Steel

Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

Caravans, Camel Saddles, Mali, Islam, Mansa Musa, Gold and Salt, Timbuktu, Caravanserai

The Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan, Khanates, Cultural Transfers of medical knowledge/numbering, Steppe, Bubonic Plague

Exchanges in the Indian Ocean

Gujarat/Malacca, Diaspora, Monsoon winds, Compass, Ming Admiral Zhenghe, Islam, Spread of Paper and Gunpowder, Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo

Environmental Consequences

Bubonic Plague, Champa rice, Citrus fruits, Sugar

Land-Based Empires (1450-1750)

Major global land based empires of the Early Modern Period including the Manchus, Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids.

Manchu Empire

Gunpowder, Qing, Kangxi, Imperial Portraits, Civil Service Exam, Banner System, Queue, Neo-Confucianism

Songhai Empire

Islam, Askia Muhammad, Gao, Trans-Saharan

Aztec Empire

Tenochtitlan, Human Sacrifice, Chinampas

Inca Empire

Cuzco, Incan Road, Atahualpa, Sun Temple

Tokugawa Japan

Salaried Samurai, Shogun, Bakafu, Sakoku

Ottoman Empire

Gunpowder, 1453, Istanbul, Devshirme, Janissaries, Tax Farming, Millet System, Sunni Islam, Alhambra Decree, Miniatures, Battle of Chaldiran

Safavid Empire

Gunpowder, Shi'a Islam, Battle of Chaldiran

Mughal Empire

Gunpowder, Divine Faith, Sikhism, Zamindars, Taj Mahal, Marathas

Europe

Versailles, Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution

Transoceanic Interconnections (1450-1750)

A focus on the European maritime empires and the connections they make with the peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

New Technology

Caravel, Fluyts, Prevailing Winds, Astronomical charts, Astrolabe, Compass, Lateen Sails

Portuguese Empire

Trading Post Empire, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Brazil/Angola/Indian Ocean, Cash Crops, Spice Islands

Spanish Empire

Reconquista, Viceroyalties, Aztecs/Incas, Encomiendas, Castas, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Vodun, Potosi

Trading Companies

Joint Stock Company, Dutch V.O.C., Indonesia, British East India Co., Spice Trade (Nutmeg, Pepper)

Columbian Exchange

Exchange of plants, animals, diseases when East met West, Potatoes, Sugar, Smallpox, Okra, Rice

Challenges to State Power

Cossacks, Marathas, Ana Nzinga, Revolts from the Enslaved (Queen Nanny), Tokugawa leyasu

Changing Social Hierarchies

Alhambra Decree, Castas, Creoles/Peninsulares, Timars-Boyars-Gentry vs. Monarchs, Banners, Millets, Din-i-alahi, Han vs. Qing in China

Revolutions (1750-1900)

Drastic political shifts based on nationalism and Enlightenment principles as well as the economic shift of the Industrial Revolution

Enlightenment

State of Nature, Reason, Religious Tolerance Natural Rights Social Contract, Suffrage. Feminism, Abolition

Technology

Fossil Fuels (Coal/O), 2nd Industrial Revolution, Internal Combustion Engine, Railroads, Steamships. Telegraphs

Nationalism and Revolution

Liberalism. Nationalism American/Haitian/Latin American Revolutions, Declaration, Jamaica Letter

Governments and Industrialization

Meiji Restoration, Cotton in Egypt, Self-Strengthening Movement, Tanzimat Reforms

Industrial Beginnings

Great Britain, Urbanization Agricultural Revolution, Coal/Iron, Private Property, Factory System

Spread of Industrialization

Steam, Spread to Europe, US, and Russia Trans-Siberian RR, Asian/African manufacturing decline

Industrial Economics

Adam Smith, Capitalism, Laissez-faire. Trans-National Businesses. HSBC, Unilever, Stock Markets

Industrial Reactions

Reforms, Karl Marx and Communism

Industrial Society

Middle and Working Class, Domesticity

Consequences of Industrialization (1750-1900)

Global reactions to the Industrial Revolution, with a heavy focus on the New Imperialism as well as the Global Migrations.

Rationales for Imperialism

Social Darwinism, White Man's Burden, civilizing mission, Nationalism, Religious conversion

Imperial Economics

Export economies, Rubber, Palm Oil, Guano, Opium Wars, Economic Imperialism, Banana Republics

State Expansion

Non-state to state control, Growth of US and Japanese Empires, Berlin Conference, Settler Colony, Congo

Causes of Migrations

New modes of transportation, job opportunities in cities (global urbanization), Coerced Labor

Effects of Migrations

Migrants-Male: leaving women behind, ethnic enclaves, receiving societies, White Australia Policy

Indigenous Responses

Growth of Nationalism, Tupac Amaru, Sepoy Rebellion 1857, Yaa Asantewaa, Xhosa Cattle Killing

Global Conflicts (1900-present)

Focus on the first half of the Contemporary Period, 1900-1945, and the World Wars, Great Depression, and the rise of totalitarian regimes.

Shifting Power

Land-based and Maritime empires give way to new states, Mexico, Qing, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire

Causes of WWI

Militarism, competition for resources, intense nationalism, alliances, regional conflicts, imperialist expansion

Conducting WWI

First total war, governments used art nationalism and propaganda, gas, tanks, machine guns

Interwar Economics

Stock Market Crash, Great Depression, New Deal, Five Year Plans, Fascist Corporatist Economy

Unresolved Tensions

League of Nations, Mandates, East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Indian National Congress, Fascism

Causes of WWII

Failures of the Treaty of Versailles, Great Depression, Aggressive militarism in Japan and Nazi Germany

Conducting WWII

Total war, governments used propaganda, Fascists/Communists, Fire-bombing, Atomic bombs

Mass Atrocities

Holocaust, Genocide, Ethnic violence, Armenians, Holodomor (Ukraine), Cambodia, Rwanda

Cold War and Decolonization (1900-present)

Following the Global Conflicts, a cold war emerged between the US and the USSR as Africa and Asia decolonized from Western rule.

The Cold War

Yalta Conference, Marshall Plan, Containment, Truman Doctrine, Deterrence, Non-aligned Movement, M.A.D.

Effects of the Cold War

N.A.T.O., Warsaw Pact, Nuclear Proliferation, Proxy Wars, Korean Conflict, Contras, Partition of Germany, Cuban Missile Crisis

Decolonization

Nationalist leaders sought independence, negotiated vs. armed independence, Ghana, India, Vietnam

Newly Independent States

Redrawing boundaries led to new states, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Israel, Migrations to Metropoles

Global Resistance

Challengers to conflict include Gandhi, Mandela, M.L.K. Jr; Others used violence including Al Qaeda

End of the Cold War

Detente, Star Wars, Arms Race, Berlin Wall, Soviet-Afghan War, Chernobyl, Glasnost, Perestroika

Spread of Communism

Chinese Civil War, Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Vietnam Conflict, Land and Resource Redistribution