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AP World History

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Comprehensive review for AP World History: Modern exam covering from 1200 CE to the present

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

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