AP World History Modern Study Guide
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Big Pictures of Each Major Time Period:
- Rise and growth of civilizations
- Religious developments and spread
- Technological ...
AP World History Modern Study Guide
Made by: Rma Polce for use at Simple Studies
From Simple Studies, https://simplestudies.edublogs.org & @simplestudiesinc on
Instagram
, Big Pictures of Each Major Time Period:
1200-1450
- Rise and growth of civilizations
- Religious developments and spread
- Technological advancements
- The decline of small states, local religions, and old technology
- State Building
- Chinese golden age
- Islamic Empire golden age
- Feudalism
- Trading and Crusading
- Black Death/Plague
- Pax Mongolica/The Mongols
1450-1750
- Global interactions
- How did land based empires gain and maintain power?
- Consolidating power
-Gunpowder Empires
- Empires of the Wind
- European developments and rivalries
- Exploitation of Africa and South America
- Isolationism
- changes in ways of life and thinking
- Scientific Revolution
- Enlightenment
- Renaissance
- Changes in England (Glorious Revolution, English Bill of Rights, etc…)
,1750 - circa 1900
- European Dominance of long distance trade
- Industrialization’s effects on the world
- Have and Have-not countries
- Imperialism and the inequalities it creates
- Political revolution/renewed spirit of wanting change
- Revolutions
- Policy changes
- English Imperialism
- England and China (Opium Wars etc... )
- England and India ( Sepoy Rebellion etc… )
- Japan
1900- Present
- World Wars
- The Age of Anxiety
- The Cold War and Proxy Wars
- Gilded age
- Great Depression
- The rise of Tycoons, Barrons, and Monopolies
- Muckrakers and reporters
- International relations and agreements (Ex: founding of the United Nations)
- Genocide
- Technological Advancements
- The Soviet Union
- Political Scandals
, 1200-1450: World Building
What are the characteristics of a civilization?
I. Art and Architecture
II. Social Classes/Pyramid
III. Developed CIties
IV. Specialized workers and jobs
V. Organized form of Government
VI. Record keeping
VII. A form of writing
VIII. Formalized religion(s)
Overview of the World’s Major Religions in 1200
Buddhism
I. Practiced typically in Eastern Civilizations
A. India
B. China
C. Southeast Asia
D. Japan
II. Founded by Siddhartha Guatama, or Buddha
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