IMPORTANT TO KNOW

Unit 1/2 (1200-1450)

  • Swahili Coast 

  • Trade networks (and the certain goods on each route)

  • Feudal systems (decentralized governments)

  • Mongols (gain of power + expansion + impact + etc)

  • The spread of religion 

  • Tech from China (silk + gunpowder + paper money + etc)

  • Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity 


Unit 3/4 (1450-1750)

  • Ottoman conquest of Constantinople 

  • Taj Mahal (architecture that legitimized rulers)

  • Devshirme system + janissaries

  • Tax systems (mit’a + tax farming + etc)

  • Shi’a vs Sunni 

  • Gunpowder empires (who + what + where + impact + gain/maintain/expand power)

  • Absolute monarchies 

  • Protestant reformation 

  • Columbian exchange

  • Atlantic Slave Trade 

  • Labor systems (coerced labor + encomienda + etc) 

  • Technology (different ships + astrolabe + etc)

  • Resistance movements 

  • Castas 

  • Age of exploration (who + which nations + etc)


Unit 5/6 (1750-1900)

  • Industrial revolution (began in GB + coal/waterways + spread + impact)

  • French revolution

  • Haitian revolution 

  • Enlightenment ideas 

  • ‘Isms (communism + nationalism + socialism + etc)

  • Meiji restoration 

  • Social reforms 

  • Tanzimat reform 

  • Self-strengthening movement 

  • Pollution 

  • Scramble for Africa

  • Berlin Conference 

  • Boxer Rebellion

  • Migration 

  • Ethnic enclaves 

  • Push and pull factors

  • Other rebellions 

  • Imperialism


Unit 7/8/9 (1750-1900)

  • World War I

  • World War II

  • Russian revolution 

  • Great depression 

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Atomic bombs 

  • Trench warfare (+ other new warfare tech)

  • Total war 

  • MAIN (military + alliances + imperialism + nationalism) 

  • Vietnam war

  • Non-Aligned movement 

  • Green revolution

  • European union 

  • UN

  • NATO

  • Warsaw pact 

  • Cold war (effects + communism vs. capitalism)

  • Proxy wars

  • Containment theory 

  • Decolonization

  • Globalization (internet + consumerism + etc)

  • WTO 

  • Berlin wall

  • India vs. Pakistan 


People to know 

  • Mansa Musa

  • Zheng He 

  • Columbus 

  • Simon Bolivar 

  • Adam Smith 

  • Karl Max

  • Hitler 

  • Ghandi 

  • Genghis Kahn 

  • Akbar the Great

  • Louis the XIV

  • Martin Luther 

  • King Leopold II

  • Mao Zedong

  • John Locke