Master AP World History: 174 Flashcards from the Silk Road to the Arab Spring
Master AP World History with 174 flashcards from deck DD2919: Mongols to the Cold War, plus unit weighting and comparison tips to score on the DBQ and LEQ.
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AP World History: Modern is a 1200-to-present course, and the exam rewards one thing above all: placing an event in its era and explaining what caused it or what it changed. Deck DD2919 — AP World History (174 cards) walks the whole timeline, from the Silk Road to the Arab Spring, in a clean question-answer format. Here is how to turn it into exam points.
Study this deck: AP World History
1 / 10What was the Silk Road?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Ten cards that anchor the timeline
| Front | Back (abridged) |
|---|---|
| What was the Pax Mongolica? | Relative peace under Mongol rule (13th-14th c.) enabling safe trade across Eurasia |
| What was the Mali Empire known for? | Trans-Saharan gold-salt trade; Mansa Musa's pilgrimage; Timbuktu |
| What was significant about Zheng He's voyages (1405-1433)? | Ming treasure fleets to Southeast Asia, India and East Africa |
| What was the devshirme system? | Ottoman levy of Christian boys, converted and trained as Janissaries or officials |
| What was the encomienda system? | Spanish grant of control over Native labor in exchange for Christianization |
| What was Akbar's policy of religious tolerance? | Abolished the jizya on non-Muslims; promoted interfaith dialogue |
| What was the Meiji Restoration (1868)? | Ended the shogunate; rapid industrialization and modernization |
| What was the Berlin Conference (1884-1885)? | European powers divided Africa without African input |
| What was the mandate system? | League of Nations handed former German and Ottoman lands to European powers |
| What was the Bandung Conference (1955)? | Asian and African states meet; roots of the Non-Aligned Movement |
Also covered: Indian Ocean monsoon trade, Swahili city-states, Abbasid Caliphate, Delhi Sultanate, Song Dynasty, tribute system, Black Death, Columbian Exchange, triangular trade, Middle Passage, hacienda, mercantilism, Treaty of Tordesillas, Safavids, Mughals, Tokugawa, Thirty Years' War, Locke, Montesquieu, Haitian Revolution, Bolívar, Congress of Vienna, Opium War, unequal treaties, Taiping and Boxer rebellions, Sepoy Mutiny, British Raj, Social Darwinism, Treaty of Versailles, Atatürk, May Fourth Movement, Long March, satyagraha, Soviet collectivization, Great Purge, appeasement, Yalta, Marshall Plan, Suez Crisis, partition of India, apartheid, Great Leap Forward, glasnost, Deng Xiaoping's reforms, WTO, Green Revolution.
Tip 1: rebalance the deck against the exam weights
The College Board splits the course into nine units. Units 3 to 6 (1450-1900: land-based empires, transoceanic connections, revolutions, industrialization) are each weighted 12-15%, so together they are more than half the exam. This deck spends about 86 of its 174 cards (cards 89-174) on post-1900 material, which units 7-9 cover for only 24-30% of the score. Tag every card with its unit number, then drill the 1450-1900 block (roughly cards 18-88) twice as often as the 20th-century block. Cards 7 (Byzantium, 330 CE) and 8 (Crusades, 1095) predate the course start: keep them as background, not test material.
Tip 2: write the comparison cards the deck leaves out
Every card asks What was X?, but the free-response section (3 SAQs, a DBQ and an LEQ, alongside 55 multiple-choice questions) asks you to compare and trace causation. Build pairs from cards you already have: devshirme vs encomienda (state labor systems), Meiji Restoration vs Qing reaction to the Opium War, Ottoman vs Mughal treatment of religious minorities (card 39 gives you Akbar's side). Add the reforms the deck never names, such as the Ottoman Tanzimat (from 1839) and China's Self-Strengthening Movement, so that Meiji has proper counterparts. One more fix: card 16 dates the Aztec Empire from 1345, but the empire really begins with the Triple Alliance of 1428 (Tenochtitlan was founded around 1325).
Study order
Week 1: cards 1-44 (1200-1750). Week 2: cards 45-88 plus your comparison cards. Week 3: cards 89-174 at a lighter pace. Week 4: mixed review, naming one cause and one consequence for every miss.
Studying for another history exam too? Pair this deck with our AP US History study guide: the Columbian Exchange, the Cold War and containment show up in both courses.
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