AP World History: Modern units review

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AP World History: Modern Units Review

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AP World History: Modern Units overview[edit | edit source]

Unit Time Period Time importance Places/ Peoples Themes Themes
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry c. 1200 to

c. 1450

  • 1200
    • growth in worldwide exchange
    • rise of states
  • 1450: Collapse of Constantinople to Turkish invasion
    • consolidation of Islam across Mideast under Turkish empire
  • China
    • Song Dynasty
  • Europe
    • crusades
  • Mongol Empire
  • China:
    • Song blend of Confucianism & imperial bureaucracy
    • expansion of Chinese culture
      • filial piety
      • deference from women
      • Chinese literature & spread to Korea & Japan
  • East & Southeast Asia
    • Buddhism spread
      • schools and practices
        • Theraveda
        • Mahayana
        • Tibetan
  • China trade & technologies
    • Silk Road
    • Champa rice
    • Grand Canal
    • Products:
      • Steel & iron
      • textiles
      • porcelains
  • Indian Ocean trade
  • Trans-Sahara trade
  • state building in Americas
  • state building in Africa
  • types of exchange
  • environmental impacts of exchange
    • Black death
    • crops
  • cultural diffusion
    • religion, language, ideas, technologies, etc.
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange c. 1450 to

c. 1750

  • Columbian exchange
  • Maritime empires
  • Social hierarchies change
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 5: Revolutions c. 1750 to

c. 1900

Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
Unit 7: Global Conflict 1900 to

the present

Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 9: Globalization

Unit I: Tapestry, 1200-1450[edit | edit source]

Unit Region Period/ Empire Period Theme / Objective Notes
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry, c. 1200 to

c. 1450

East Asia: China Song Dynasty

960-1279

culture
  • continuity/ change in China
  • Confucian traditions
    • filial piety
    • role of women
      • respect for
      • expected deference from
  • neo-Confucianism
  • Buddhism
  • literary/ scholarly traditions
    • spread to Korea & Japan

economic systems

  • economic growth
  • commercialization
  • paper money
  • manufacturing
    • textiles
    • porcelains
    • iron/ steel products
  • trade networks
  • continued dependence upon
    • peasants (farming)
    • artisans (skilled labor)

technologies

  • farming
  • steel & iron production

Grand canal

  • trade
  • unification
Song China:
  • Song blend of Confucianism & imperial bureaucracy
  • expansion of Chinese culture
    • filial piety
    • deference from women
    • Chinese literature & spread to Korea & Japan

Confucianism & literature

  • Analects
  • Ballad of Mulan

China trade & technologies

  • Silk Road
  • Champa rice (resistant to drought)
  • Grand Canal
  • Products:
    • Steel & iron
    • textiles
    • porcelains
East & Southeast Asia Buddhism


Buddhism spread


Buddhist schools and practices

  • Theraveda
  • Mahayana
  • Tibetan
West Asia & North Africa Religions Islam Dar al-Islam
  • "home of Islam"
  • = places under Muslim rule

rise of Islamic states

  • cause / effects
    • internal & external factors
    • Abbasid Caliphate collapse

Islamic rule

  • rise of Turkic Islamic states
  • administrative units
  • general governing policies

Intellectual innovation & spread

"Pax-Islamica"
  • dhimmi
    • = non-Muslim person
    • legal arrangements = "constitutional charters"
    • terms of relations between religious groups
  • Dar al-'Ahd = non-Muslim places w/ non-aggression agreement
    • places at peace with Islamic nation/s
    • "house of peace"
  • Dar al-harb = non-Muslim places w/o non-aggression agreement or at war
    • "house of war"

spread of Islam

  • Africa
  • Spain
  • Islamic missionaries
  • Sufis

culture / technologies:

  • mathematics (Nasir al-Din al Tusi)
  • literature
  • medicine
  • Greek philosophy
    • Islamic preservation of
    • influence/ interpretation on/ by Islamic scholars
  • "House of Wisdom" in Abbasid Baghdad
  • Islamic culture / scholarship spread to Spain
Christianity

Judaism


todo: to add

Macuilxochitzin and "gender parallelism" under Aztec and Inca

External sources & resources[edit | edit source]