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AP World History Final Study Guide Semester One

Chapter 1 From Human Pre-History to Early Civilization 1. Characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies 2. Societal impacts on the development of agricultural societies 3. Traits that make a society a civilization 4. Political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley Chapter 2 Classical Civilization: China 5. Son of Heaven concept 6. Emphasis of classical Chinese views of nature 7. Social hierarchy in classical China 8. Characteristics of Confucian beliefs Chapter 3 Classical Civilization: India 9. Indias political traditions 10. Impacts of the caste systemwhat purposes did it serve? 11. Differences between Buddhism and Hinduism 12. Differences and similarities in Hinduism and Confucianism Chapter 4 Classical Civilization in the Mediterranean: Greece and Rome 13. Administration of the Roman Empire 14. Similarities between Greek politics and Indian politics 15. Major Roman achievements

16. Makeup of the republican Roman Senate Chapter 5 The Classical Period: Directions, Diversities, and Declines by 500 C.E. 17. Focus of faiths in North Africa, Asia, and Europe by 200 C.E. 18. Decline of the Roman Empire 19. Barbarians 20. Compare the decline of the Han Empire to that of the Roman Empire 21. Compare Hinduism and Christianity Chapter 6 The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam 22. Regions affected by Islam 23. Pre-Islamic Arabian culture and religion 24. Kaba 25. Role of the Umayyads 26. The Five Pillars of Islam 27. Benefits / drawbacks of Arab warriors converting people to Islam 28. Citizenship in the Umayyad Empire 29. Abbasid view of slavery Chapter 7 Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia 30. Problems of succession in Islam 31. Causes for disruption in the agricultural economy of the Abbasids 32. Women is Islamic society 33. Famous Muslim leader of the Crusades 34. Success of First Crusade

35. Impact of the Crusades on Christians and Muslims 36. Political centers of Islam 37. Islam vs. Hinduism 38. Indian Islamic Kingdom Chapter 8 African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam 39. Major outside contacts with sub-Saharan Africa 40. Differences between African civilizations and other post-classical societies 41. Spread of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa 42. Indigenous religions of sub-Saharan Africa 43. "equality before God and inequality within the world" 44. Christianity in Africa 45. Urbanization in the Mali Empire 46. Islam and the African slave trade 47. View of slavery in the Muslim society 48. Trade and East Africa Chapter 9 Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe 49. Iconoclastic controversy in Christian Church 50. Commercial center of the Byzantine Empire 51. Western European influence in Kievan Russia Chapter 10 A New Civilization in Western Europe 52. Scandinavian invaders in the Middle Ages 53. Feudalism

54. Manorialism 55. Feudal Structure Chapter 11 The Americas on the Eve of Invasion 56. General characteristics of Aztec and Incan societies 57. Aztec rise to power 58. Aztec religion 59. Aztec economy 60. Lives of women in Mesoamerican societies 61. Similarities and differences between Aztec and Incan empires Chapter 12 Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties 62. Tang Empire how did it emerge? 63. Title of jinshi 64. Chinese bureaucracy 65. Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty 66. Reforms introduced by Wang Anshin 67. Size of Tang Empire compared to previous Chinese empires 68. Scholar-gentry in the Song Dynasty 69. Urbanization during the Tang-Song era 70. Status of women in the Tang-Song era Chapter 13 The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam 71. Focus of imperial Japanese court at Heian

72. Japanese military elite 73. Relationship between the Japanese imperial court and the provincial military elite 74. Relationship between the Ashikaga Shogunate and the emperor 75. Influence of Chinese culture on Vietnamese rulers Chapter 14 The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur 76. Mongol culture 77. Early campaigns of Chinggis Khan 78. Mongolian religious policy under Chinggis Khan 79. Mongolian empire after death of Chinggis Khan 80. Mongols and Russia 81. Social impacts of Mongol conquest in Russia 82. Impacts of Mongolian conquest on the Islamic world Chapter 15 The West and the Changing World Balance 83. Western response to problems of international trade in 1400 84. Compare Turkic expansion to Mongolian expansion 85. Culture of the Ottoman Empire 86. Innovation of the Ming Dynasty Chapter 16 The World Economy 87. Impacts of the Columbian Exchange 88. Old World and New World contributions to the Columbian Exchange 89. Joint-Stock Companies 90. Mercantilism

Chapter 17 The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750 91. Northern Renaissance vs. Italian Renaissance 92. Religious teachings of Martin Luther 93. Catholic Reformation and their teachings Chapter 18 The Rise of Russia 94. Peter the Greats political reforms 95. Russian social organization 96. Russian economy and trade 97. Limits of the Russian agricultural economy

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