AP WORLD

🧾 FULL TERM LIST (copy/paste)

🟦 PERIOD 1 (1200–1450)

• Chinese Dynasties

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Confucianism

• Animism / Shamanism

• Monotheism

• Christianity

• Islam

• Dar al-Islam

• Caliphate

• Turkic Peoples

• Diffusion of Religions

• Syncretism

• Silk Roads

• Indian Ocean Trade Network

• Trans-Saharan Trade

• West African Kingdoms (Ghana, Mali, Songhai)

• Byzantine Empire

• Ethiopia

• Mongols

• Bubonic Plague

• Mayan States

• Coerced Labor

• Feudalism

• Zheng He

🟦 PERIOD 2 (1450–1750)

• Land-Based Empires

• Inca Empire

• Mexica (Aztec) Empire

• European Exploration

• Columbian Exchange

• Atlantic World

• Mercantilism

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Mit’a System

• Encomienda System

• Mughal Empire

• Printing Press

• Ottoman Empire

• Diaspora

• Urbanization

• Renaissance

• Cash Crops

• Protestant Reformation

• Absolutism

• Enlightenment

🟦 PERIOD 3 (1750–1900)

• Industrialization

• Reactions to Industrialization

• Capitalism

• Marxism

• Nationalism

• Liberalism

• Age of Revolutions

• Imperialism

• Social Darwinism

• Western Hegemony

• Meiji Restoration

• 19th Century Migrations

• Indentured Servitude

• Open Door Policy

• Second Industrial Revolution

• Berlin Conference

• Steam Engine

🟦 PERIOD 4 (1900–Present)

• World War I

• World War II

• Great Depression

• Authoritarianism

• Communism

• Decolonization

• Partition

• Cold War

• Multinational Corporations

• Pacific Rim

• Chinese Revolution

• Apartheid

• Feminism

• Globalization

• Global Culture

• Resistance Movements

• Anthropocene

• United Nations

🟦 IMPORTANT DATES / EVENTS

• Industrial Revolution (~1750s)

• French Revolution (1789)

• Meiji Restoration (1868)

• Berlin Conference (1884–1885)

• World War I (1914–1918)

• World War II (1939–1945)

• Cold War (~1947–1991)

• Decolonization (post-1945)

• Fall of USSR (1991)

• 9/11 Attacks (2001)