AP World History Key Terms
Technological and Environmental Transformations, Pre-History to 600 BCE, (GREEN)
Chapter 1
Bronze Age
Pastoralism
Nomads
Hunting and
Gathering
Specialization
Cuniform
Monotheism
Iron
Judaism
Agrarian Revolution
Valley Civilizations
Phoenicians
Sumerians
Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, 600 BCE to 600 CE, (PURPLE)
Chapter 2
Qin Shi Huangdi
Patriarchalism
Legalism
Silk Road
Daoism
Han Dynasty
Analects
Confucianism
Qin Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Chapter 3
Kushans
Hinduism
Vedas
Maurya Dynasty
Buddhism
Aryans
Ashoka
Caste System
Chandragupta
Gupta
Chapter 4
Zoroastrianism
Alexander the Great
Greek City-States
Twelve Tables
Athens
Cyrus the Great
Roman Republic
Carthage
Senate
Diocletian &
Constantine
Chapter 5
Inca
Animism
Axum
Mahayana
Tang Dynasty
Shintoism
Yellow Turbins
Olmec
Jesus of Nazareth
Coptic Christianity
Regional and Trans-regional Interactions, 600 CE to 1450, (YELLOW)
Chapter 6
Mawali
Mecca
Hajj
Umayyad
Ka’ba
Abbasids
Bedouin
Qur’an
Sunni
Shi’a
Chapter 7
Ulama
Mongals
Saladin
Chinggis Khan
Bhaktic Cult
Sufis
Huran al-Rashid
Sati
Crusades
Sultans of Delhi
Chapter 8
Juula
Ibn Batuta
Muhammad the
Great
Berbers
Bantu
Mali
Timbuktu
Sudanic States
Great Zimbabwe
Mansa Musa
Chapter 9
Byzantine Empire
Hagia Sophia
Sassanian Empire
Constantinople
Roman Legal Code
Cyril and Methodius
Boyars
Justinian
Russian Orthodoxy
Tartars
Chapter 10
Three Estates
Charlemagne
Romanesque
Scholasticism
Three-Field System
Pope Urban II
Magna Carta
Manorialism
Vikings
Ferdinand & Isabella
Chapter 11
Maize
Chichen Itza
Calpulli
Cuzco
Inca Socialism
Pochteca
Hernan Cortes
Temple of the Sun
Parallel Descent
Tlaloc
Chapter 12
Tang, Silk Road
Empress Wei
Tang Dynasty
Song Dynasty
Zen Buddhism
Flying Money
Footbinding
Mahayana Buddhism
Grand Canal
Li Bo
Chapter 13
Taika Reforms
Bakufu
Shintoism
Fujiwara Family
Tale of Genji
Shogans
Seppuku
Middle Kingdom
Trung Sisters
Yi Dynasty
Chapter 14
Timur-I Lang
Ming Dynasty
Mamluks
White Lotus Society
Kubilia Khan
Golden Horde
Marco Polo
Chinggis Khan
Samarkund
Karakorum
Chapter 15
Iberian Peninsula
Italian Renaissance
Prince Henry
Maori
Ottoman Turks
Admiral Zenghe
Giotto
Inquisition
Black Death
Ethnocentrism
Global Interaction, 1450 to 1750, (BLUE)
Chapter 16
Mestizos
Mughal Empire
Treaty of Paris
Mercantilism
Columbian Exchange
Calcutta
John Locke
East Indian Company
Ferdinand Magellan
World Economy
Chapter 17
Humanism
Capitalism
Niccolo Machiavelli
Scientific Revolution
Johannes Gutenburg
Isaac Newton
Enlightenment
Martin Luther
Proletariat
Jesuits
Chapter 18
Old Believers
Cossacks
Peter I
Alexis de Tocqueville
Boyars
Romanov Dynasty
Catherine the Great
Ivan III
Serfdom
Obruk
Chapter 19
Sociedad de Castas
Charles III
Creoles
Peninsulares
Viceroyalties
Hernan Cortez
Tupac Amaru
Habsburg Monarchy
Encomiendas
New Spain
Chapter 20
Asante
Middle Passage
William Wilberforce
Dahomey
Saltwater Slaves
Cape Colony
Great Trek
Vodun
Triangular Trade
Zulu Wars
Chapter 21
Mughal Dynasty
Sail al-Din
Janissaries
Taj Mahal
Gun Powder Empires
Red Heads
Imams
Sikes
Hagia Sophia
Golden Horn
Chapter 22
Malacca
Forbidden City
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Dutch Trading Empire
Manchu
Edo
Caravels
Hongwu
Nobunaga
Deshima
Industrialization and Global Integration, 1750 to 1900, (ORANGE)
Chapter 23
Otto Von Bismarck
Napoleon Bonaparte
Count Camillo di
Cavour
Industrial Revolution
Factory System
French Revolution
Age of Revolution
Imperialism
American Revolution
Nationalism
Chapter 24
Kamehameha
Queen Victoria
Sepoys
Boxer Rebellion
Cecil Rhodes
British Raj
White Dominions
Boer War
Mataram
Utilitarians
Chapter 25
Simon Bolivar
Manifest Destiny
Panama Canal
Monroe Doctrine
Mexican American
War
Porfirio Diaz
Spanish American
War
Miguel de Hidalgo
Benito Juarez
Positivism
Chapter 26
Qing Dynasty
Banner Armies
Opium Wars
General Kitchner
Muhammad Ali
(Egypt)
Khedives
Puyi
Suez Canal
Tanzimat Reforms
Young Turks
Chapter 27
Sino-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
Emancipation of Serfs
Bolsheviks
Duma
Zaibatsu
Kulaks
Meiji Restoration
Decembrist Uprising
Trans-Siberian
Railroad
Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, 1900 to Present, (RED)
Chapter 28
Triple Entente
Mohandes Gandhi
Zionists
Self-determination
Armenian Genocide
Treaty of Versailles
Balfour Declaration
League of Nations
Central Powers
Satygraha
Chapter 29
Russian Civil War
Appeasement
Collectivization
Mexican Revolution
Great Depression
Pancho Villa
Spanish Civil War
The Roaring Twenties
Mao Zedong
Benito Mussolini
Chapter 30
Final Solution
Nazi-Socialism
Yalta Conference
Vichy
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Muslim League
Manchuria
United Nations
Potsdam
Cold War
Chapter 31
Solidarity
Berlin Wall
Great Society
Nato
European Union
Civil Rights
Movement
Marshall Plan
Warsaw Pact
New Feminism
Iron Curtain
Chapter 32
NAFTA
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro
Juan Peron
Third World
Liberation Theology
Vicente Fox
United Fruit Company
Banana Republics
Good Neighbor Policy
Chapter 33
Nelson Mandela
Anwar Sadat
Ayatollah Khomeini
Hosni Mubarak
Gamal Abdul Nasser
Globalization
Neo-colonial
Economy
Apartheid
Muslim Brotherhood
Green Revolution
Chapter 34
Hong Kong
Kim Il-Sung
Mass Line
Deng Xiaoping
Korean War
People’s Liberation
Army
Great Leap Forward
Red Guard
Ho Chi Minh
Cultural Revolution
Chapter 35
Putin
Ronald Reagan
Perestroika
Euro
Persian Gulf War
Glasnost
War on Terror
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Chapter 36
Global Warming
Internationalism
Nationalism
AIDS
World Wide Web
Fundamentalism
Environmental
Impacts
Outsourcing
McDonalds & WalMart
Cultural Exchange
Multinational
Corporation