AP World History Crash Course

AP World History Crash Course Flashcards

harmonhistory.com

What is the name of Jay P. Harmon's website that offers resources for students and teachers?

6 Historical Periods: Period 1 Technological and Environmental Transformations, to c. 600 BCE, Period 2 Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, c. 600 BCE to c. 600 CE, Period 3 Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 CE to c. 1450, Period 4 Global Interactions: c.1450 to c. 1750, Period 5 Industrialization and Global Integration, c. 1750 to c. 1900, Period 6 Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, c. 1900 to the present

What chronological categories is the AP World History exam content broken down into?

About half

What percentage of students pass the AP World History exam?

Half

The multiple-choice portion of the AP World History exam is what percentage of the total exam score?

Before the Common Era

What does the term BCE mean?

Sees gods in nature (worshipping the sun, for example).

What characterized the earliest-known form of religion, animism?

Gods have specific names and duties

What characterized polytheism?

Monotheism

What is the belief in one god called?

Zoroastrianism

What faith, from Persia in Central Asia, was an early monotheistic faith?

The Classical Era

What are the years c. 600 BCE to c. 600 CE known as?

Each other

What did the Han Empire in East Asia trade with the Roman Empire?

The Silk Roads

What is a must-know trade route that connected East Asia to northern India and central Asia and, indirectly, to the Mediterranean region, West Africa, and northern Europe?

Indian Ocean Trade Network

What was just as important as the Silk Roads, but with routes over water?

Trans-Sahara Trade

What trade of goods, people, and faith peaked from the eighth century CE to the 1500s?

Everywhere Islam is across Afro-Eurasia.

What is Dar-al Islam?

Black Death

What disease is probably history's most infamous disease?

Slavery, serfdom, the corvee (government-required labor on public works projects), and indentured servitude

What does the term "Coerced labor" include?

The first truly global contacts and ushered in the rise of European influence around the world.

Seeking an increase in the trade of spices, silk, and other goods from East and Southeast Asia, led by Portugal, then Spain, France, England, and Holland, these explorers initiated what?

Exchanges of plants, animals, technology, and diseases on a worldwide level.

What did Columbus's expeditions to the Americas trigger?

The people, politics, religions, goods, and ideas that crossed back and forth over the Atlantic after Columbus's journeys connected Europe, Africa, and North and South America.

What does the "Atlantic World" encompass?