AP WORLD
HISTORY
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Exam Details
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Early Bird Exam: Tuesday, May 24th
2nd and 5th Period – Thursday, May 26th
Sections
Multiple-Choice: 30-45 questions over Units 3, 4 and
5
 Open-Response
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Two Questions (3-4 paragraphs each)
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Who would you confront/high five in history and why?
Most significant event/person/innovation of the 20th century
and why?
UNIT 3: THE POST-CLASSICAL
PERIOD, 1450-1750 CE
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Age of Exploration
Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
Absolute Monarchy – Louis XIV, Peter the
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Russia – Peter the Great; Westernization
African Slave Trade/Triangular Trade
Gunpowder Empires
UNIT 4: THE LONG
NINETEENTH CENTURY, 17501914 CE
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The Enlightenment
American and French Revolutions
The Three Estates (France)
Haitian Revolution
Chinese Revolution (1911)
Old vs. New Imperialism
British in India
Opium Wars (China/England)
Berlin Conference
Industrial Revolution in Japan and Russia
UNIT 5: THE CONTEMPORARY
WORLD, 1914-PRESENT
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Causes and Consequences of World War I
Treaty of Versailles
Causes and Consequences of World War II
Independence of India
The Cold War
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Division of Germany
Mikhail Gorbachev (Perestroika/Glasnost)
Post-Colonialism in Africa and Asia
Apartheid
Economic Growth in Japan
End of the Cold War – German Unification