George Westinghouse College Prep
AP World History
Semester 1 Study Guide
As with our unit exams, the semester final exam will assess a tremendous amount of material. Rather than trying to remember every single detail, it is strongly recommended that you use organizational tools (5 themes charts, SPRITE charts, Conrad-Demarest charts, maps, timelines) to help sort out all of the information.
For reviewing units 1 and 2, it is highly recommended that you review the chapter reading guides from those roughly 13 chapters. Those are all posted online. Please DO NOT print them on the library printer.
For short summaries that get across main ideas clearly in plain language, there are two places that I recommend:
1) Your AP World History review book—in addition to their summaries of each time period and/or region (every book is arranged differently), these books have tips for how to go about studying. These are invaluable resources.
2) A very generous teacher named Ms. Pugh has posted all of her WHAP materials online at . For each region she has what she calls a ‘cram packet.’ Use this as a resource, along with your textbook and notes, but PLEASE DO NOT PRINT THIS OUT ON THE SCHOOL’S PRINTERS!!!! If you want to print it, use your own paper (and try to use recycled paper).
Unit 1: 8000 BCE-500 BCE
Big ideas:
1) Compare and contrast the major SPICE characteristics of Paleolithic societies with early Neolithic societies.
2) Describe the causes and effects of the Neolithic Revolution.
3) Identify the major characteristics of complex civilizations.
4) Compare and contrast the SPICE features of the six First Civilizations—Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Shang/Zhou China, Indus Valley, Olmec and Norte Chico.
5) Explain the essential role of urban centers (cities) in the rise of civilization.
Places (be able to identify on a map, and know their significance in the beginnings of agriculture and the rise of civilizations):
Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent Indus Valley (Mohenjo Daro/Harappa)
Shang/Zhou China Mesoameria (Olmecs)
Norte Chico Nile Valley (Egypt)
Terms
ziggurat pharaoh ‘Mandate of Heaven’ city-state
divine civilization polytheism/monotheism domestication
patriarchy social hierarchy Paleolithic/Neolithic Nomad/nomadic specialization of labor Hammurabi’s Code egalitarian irrigation
food surplus urban diffusion migration
pastoral cuneiform hieroglyphics Hittities
Sumerians Assyrians
Unit 2: 500 BCE-600 CE
Big ideas:
1) How and where did the following empires emerge: Persian, Greek (Athenian), Macedonian, Han, Roman, Mauryan/Gupta, Mayan?
2) What new methods of administration were used by the above empires to organize and govern their empires?
3) What new military methods were used by the above empires to conquer and rule over large territories?
4) What were the main factors contributing to the collapse of the above empires?
5) How, where and when did the following belief systems emerge: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity? How, where and when did they spread?
6) What were the major tenets of each of the above belief systems?
7) Describe the social hierarchies that developed in India, China, Greece and Rome during this era.
8) Describe changes and continuities in the system of patriarchy in China, Greece, India and Rome during this era.
9) Describe the growing importance of regional and transregional trade, with a focus on the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean trade network. What innovations contributed to the growth of trade?
10) Describe the major developments in Sub-Saharan Africa during this era: continued Bantu migration, growth of Niger River city-states, rise and fall of Meroe and Axum.
11) Compare the regional civilizations of the Americas during this era: Maya, Teotihuacan, Chavin, Moche, Cahokia.
12) Evaluate the ways in which Classical Era civilizations were different from the ‘first wave’ civilizations (changes) and the ways in which they were similar (continuities).
Places (be able to identify on a map and understand their significance in the Classical Era):
Alexandria Persian Empire Athens/Sparta Macedonian Empire
Mayan Empire Mauryan/Gupta Empire Chavin Moche
Teotihuacan Cahokia Roman Empire Han China
Terms
Classical Age/Era bureaucracy Confucianism Brahmin
Han dynasty Qin dynasty Hinduism Buddhism
reincarnation moksha caste system/varna Nirvana
monotheism Zoroastrianism Judaism Christianity
filial piety Legalism Daoism mandate of heaven
Greco- Persian War Peloponnesian War Hellenism Silk Road
Era of Warring States republic Four Noble Truths Pax Romana
empire/imperial Analects of Confucius Bantu migration
People:
Cyrus the Great Emperor Constantine Pericles Julius Caesar
Octavius Augustus Socrates Plato Aristotle
Alexander of Macedonia Ashoka Jesus of Nazareth Confucius
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Important Dates (for most of these, approximate dates is fine—but you should be able to order them on a timeline)
Height of Persian power Golden Age of Athens Alexander the Great’s regin
Height of Roman Empire Beginning of Christianity Fall of Roman Empire
Beginning of Confuciansim Beginning of Buddhism Qin/Han dynasty
Unit 3: 600-1450
Big ideas:
1) Growth of transregional trade routes—what were the key trade routes? What major goods were traded over these routes? What role did trade routes play, outside of commerce (e.g. religion, disease)? What factors led to the growth of transregional trade between 500 and 1500?
2) What were the major political, economic, technological and cultural developments of the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties?
3) Describe the relationships that developed between China and its neighbors. How were these relationships either similar or different?
4) Compare and contrast western Europe with the Byzantine Empire politically, economically and religiously.
5) How did the system of feudalism work? What was it designed to accomplish?
6) What major political, economic and intellectual changes were taking place in Europe between 1000 and 1300?
7) Compare and contrast the belief systems of Islam and Christianity.
8) How, why and where did Islam spread between its founding (in 622) and approximately 1450?
9) Describe the major economic, scientific and cultural contributions of the Islamic world between 650 and 1450.
10) Mongol conquest and rule—how did they create their empire and what was their impact?
11) Compare and contrast China and Europe in the 15th century culturally, economically and politically.
12) Compare and contrast the Aztec and Inca socially, politically and economically.
13) Compare and contrast the development of civilizations in East and West Africa between 500 and 1500.
Places (be able to identify on a map and understand their significance in the Classical Era):
Byzantine Empire Arabian Peninsula Delhi Sultanate Anatolia
Ghana/Mali/Songhai East African city-states Korea Japan
Aztec empire Inca empire Holy Roman Empire
Terms
post-Classical Era patriarchy bureaucracy Confucianism
Islam/Muslim Christianity Buddhism centralized/decentralized
Swahili Silk Road Indian Ocean trade network Sunni/Shi’ite
caliph/caliphate Five Pillars Crusades Ummayad/Abbasid calpiphate
Black Death Sui dynasty Tang dynasty Song dynasty
Yuan (Mongol) dynasty Ming dynasty feudalism pastoralism
clergy aristocracy foot binding Neo-Confucianism
tribute system Renaissance humanism pope/papacy
silk/porcelain Grand Canal movable type lateen sail
Arabic (language) guilds manor fief
serf vassal lord magnetic compass
People:
Muhammad Zheng He Chinggis Khan Mongols
Arabs Turks Marco Polo Inca
Aztec Mansa Musa Vasco de Gama Vikings
Prince Vladimir (Rus) Charlemagne Ibn Battuta
Important Dates (for most of these, approximate dates is fine—but you should be able to order them on a timeline)
Conquests of the Mongols Sui/Tang/Song/Yuan/Ming dynasties Birth/spread of Islam
Black Death Crusades Italian Renaissance
Unit 4: 1450-1750
Big ideas:
1) What were the major causes and effects of the Protestant Reformation?
2) Describe the social, political and economic components of the pre-Tokugawa and Tokugawa Shogunate eras in Japan.
3) Analyze the factors that led to the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, and compare/contrast slavery in the Americas with previous forms of slavery in history.
4) Identify the motives for European exploration between 1400 and 1600. How did these motives change and/or stay the same upon ‘discovery’ of the Americas?
5) Compare/contrast European empires in Asia and the Americas, and explain the reasons for these similarities and differences.
6) Analyze the effects of gunpowder in western Europe, the Indian Ocean, Russia, West Africa, Mughal India,
and North America.
7) Compare and contrast the religious policies of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire and Mughal Empire.
8) Describe changes and continuities in European labor systems in the Americas and explain the reasons for both.
9) Identify the new ideas about science, religion and government that were raised during the Scientific Revolution, Protestant Reformation and Enlightenent.
10) Compare and contrast the sugar colonies, New Spain/Peru and British North America, using all of the SPICE categories.
11) Describe the impact of Europeans on China and Japan and compare/contrast it with the European impact on West/East Africa and the Americas.
Terms:
transatlantic slave trade Triangular Trade Tokugawa Shogunate
daimyo Neo-Confucianism Protestant Reformation
vernacular printing press Calvinism
Catholic Church/Catholicism pope/papacy/papism Ming/Qing dynasty
missionaries mercantilism humanism
colony/colonialism Potosi silver mines caravel
astrolabe/compass British East India Company Dutch East India Company
Catholic (Counter-) Reformation peninsulare/crole/mestizo/mulatto serf/serfdom
Scientific Revolution Enlightenment settlement colony
trading post colony plantation economy encomienda system
Columbian Exchange
Places:
New Spain British North America Brazil West Indies/Caribbean
Portugal Spain England/Great Britain The Netherlands (Dutch)
Japan Ming/Qing China Ottoman Empire Mughal Empire
Russia Haiti Constantinople
People:
Martin Luther John Calvin King Henry VIII
Jesuits Galileo Nicholas Copernicus
Isaac Newton Rene Descartes Aztec/Montezuma
Inca/Atahualpa Czar Peter the Great Vasco de Gama
Ferdinand Magellan Akbar the Great Suleiman the Magnificent
Chrisopher Columbus
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