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AP Weltgeschichte

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Umfassende Vorbereitung auf die AP-Prüfung in Weltgeschichte mit Fokus auf Zivilisationen und historische Ereignisse

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  1. 1Was war Seidenstraße?
    Network trade routes connecting East Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, and Europe; facilitated exchange goods, ideas, technology, and diseases
  2. 2Was war Indian Ocean trade network?
    Maritime trade routes linking East Africa, Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia; facilitated by monsoon winds
  3. 3What role did Mongols play in Afro-Eurasian trade?
    Created largest land empire; secured trade routes; facilitated cultural exchange; spread technologies and ideas across Eurasia
  4. 4Was war Pax Mongolica?
    Period relative peace and stability under Mongol rule (13th-14th centuries) that facilitated safe travel and trade across Eurasia
  5. 5Was war significance Swahili city-states?
    East African coastal trading cities blending African, Arab, and Persian cultures; facilitated Indian Ocean trade
  6. 6Was war Mali Empire known for?
    West African empire wealthy from trans-Saharan gold-salt trade; Mansa Musa's pilgrimage; Timbuktu as center Islamic learning
  7. 7Was war Byzantine Empire?
    Eastern continuation Roman Empire (330-1453 CE); preserved Greek/Roman learning; Orthodox Christianity; capital Constantinople
  8. 8Was war significance Crusades?
    Series religious wars (1095-1291) between Christians and Muslims; increased trade and cultural exchange between Europe and Middle East
  9. 9Was war feudalism in medieval Europe?
    Political and economic system based on land ownership; lords granted land to vassals in exchange for military service; serfs worked land
  10. 10Was war role Catholic Church in medieval Europe?
    Central authority providing spiritual guidance, education, social services; unified diverse kingdoms; collected taxes; influenced politics
  11. 11Was war Song Dynasty's significance?
    Chinese dynasty (960-1279) known for economic prosperity, technological innovations (gunpowder, compass, printing), urbanization, and cultural achievements
  12. 12Was war tribute system in East Asia?
    Diplomatic system where neighboring states recognized Chinese superiority and paid tribute in exchange for trade rights and protection
  13. 13Was war Abbasid Caliphate?
    Islamic empire (750-1258) with capital Baghdad; golden age Islamic learning, science, mathematics, philosophy; ended by Mongol invasion
  14. 14Was war significance Delhi Sultanate?
    Islamic kingdom in northern India (1206-1526); introduced Islamic culture, architecture, administration to South Asia
  15. 15Was war Inca Empire?
    Largest pre-Columbian empire in Americas (Peru, 1438-1533); known for road system, Machu Picchu, quipu record-keeping, terrace farming
  16. 16Was war Aztec Empire?
    Mesoamerican empire (1345-1521) centered in Tenochtitlan; known for human sacrifice, chinampas farming, tribute system
  17. 17Was war impact Black Death (1347-1353)?
    Bubonic plague killed 1/3 Europe's population; spread via trade routes; led to labor shortages, social upheaval, questioning religious authority
  18. 18Was war Renaissance?
    Cultural rebirth in Europe (14th-17th centuries); revival classical learning; humanism; advances in art, science, literature
  19. 19Welche waren die main causes European exploration (1450-1750)?
    Desire for Asian spices and goods, gold (God, Glory, Gold); new maritime technology; competition between European powers; spread Christianity
  20. 20What technological innovations enabled European exploration?
    Caravel ships, compass, astrolabe, improved maps and navigation techniques, gunpowder weapons
  21. 21Was war significance Columbus's voyage (1492)?
    Opened sustained contact between Europe and Americas; began Kolumbischer Austausch; initiated European colonization Americas
  22. 22Was war Vertrag Tordesillas (1494)?
    Agreement between Spain and Portugal dividing newly discovered lands; Spain got most Americas, Portugal got Brazil and route to Asia
  23. 23Was war Kolumbischer Austausch?
    Transfer plants, animals, diseases, people, ideas between Eastern and Western hemispheres after 1492; transformed both regions
  24. 24What Old World diseases devastated Ureinwohner Amerikas populations?
    Smallpox, measles, typhus killed up to 90% indigenous peoples who lacked immunity; facilitated European conquest
  25. 25What American crops transformed Old World?
    Potatoes, maize (corn), tomatoes, cacao, tobacco increased food supply and population growth in Europe, Africa, and Asia
  26. 26Was war triangular trade?
    Three-way Atlantic trade: European manufactured goods to Africa, enslaved Africans to Americas, sugar/tobacco/cotton to Europe
  27. 27Was war Middle Passage?
    Brutal voyage transporting enslaved Africans across Atlantic to Americas; millions died from disease, starvation, and cruel conditions
  28. 28Was war encomienda system?
    Spanish colonial labor system granting colonists control over Native populations for forced labor; officially abolished but persisted in modified forms
  29. 29Was war hacienda system?
    Large estates in Spanish America using coerced indigenous and mestizo labor for agricultural production
  30. 30Was war mercantilism?
    Economic theory that wealth is finite; colonies exist to benefit mother country; accumulate gold/silver; favorable balance trade

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