AP World History Key Terms and Concepts according
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AP World History Key Terms and Concepts according to Crash Course
Period 1: up to 600 BCE Technological and Environmental Transformations • • Hunting-Foraging Bands Neolithic Revolutions River-Valley Civilizations Pastoralism Urbanization Early Empires Animism, Polytheism, Monotheism
Period 2: 600 BCE to 600 CE Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies • • Classical Era Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Christianity Han Empire Mandate of Heaven Chinese Examination System Mediterranean Civilization Hellenism Maurya/Gupta Empires Bantu Migrations Silk Roads Indian Ocean Trade Network • Fall of Classical Empires • • •
Period 3: 600 CE to 1450 Regional and Transregional Interactions • • Trans-Sahara Trade Islam Caliphate Crusades Dar-al Islam Diffusion of Religions Byzantine Empire Black Death • • Tang and Song Dynasties Sinification Mongols Zheng He (Ming) Mayan States Coerced Labor Feudalism
Period 4: 1450 to 1750 Global Interactions • • Inca Empire European Exploration Columbian Exchange Atlantic World Mercantilism Atlantic Slave Trade Encomienda System • • Mughal Empire Syncretism in Religions Printing Press Ottoman Empire
Period 5: 1750 to 1900 Industrialization and Global Integration • • • Industrialization Enlightenment Capitalism Marxism Nationalism Age of Revolutions Imperialism Social Darwinism Resistance to Western Hegemony • Meiji Restoration • Nineteenth-Century Migrations • Indentured Servitude • Open Door Policy • Second Industrial Revolution
Period 6: 1900 to present Accelerating Global Change and Realignments • • WWI and WWII The Great Depression Authoritarianism Communism Decolonization Partition Cold War Multinational or Transnational Corporation • • Pacific Rim Chinese Revolutions Apartheid Feminism Globalization Historiography Periodization