AP WORLD HISTORY
UNIT 1:
Mesopotamia
Egypt
UNIT 2:
Nomadic Groups
Persian Empire
Greek-Persian Wars
Influence of Middle East in Indian Ocean; Saharan
Trade Routes
Impact of Alexander the Great; Roman Empire
UNIT 3:
The Rise of Islam
Umayyad Caliphate (goals, problems, fall)
Abbasid Caliphate (goals, problems, fall)
Impact on: Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan
Africa, India
Role in Trade
The Crusades
The Mongols (Il-Khanate of Persia)
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
UNIT 4:
The Ottoman Empire (1453; millet system;
changes made; threat to Western Europe;
problems; janissaries; expansion)
The Safavid Empire (relationship with other
religions; relationship with Ottoman Empire;
relationship with Europeans; trade; problems)
Conflicts with Western Europe
Influence on India, Sub-Saharan Africa, North
Africa
UNIT 5:
The Ottoman Empire (Problems and Reforms)
Muhammad Ali (Egypt)
Suez Canal
UNIT 6:
Role in World War I and World War II
Balfour Declaration
Decolonization
Arab Nationalism; Building of Arab Nation-States
Iranian Revolution
Role in Global Trade (oil; OPEC)
Islamic fundamentalism
MIDDLE EAST REVIEW
KEY THEMES:
 Role in the development of early civilizations
 Relationship with other regions through trade
(Mediterranean; Saharan and Sub-Saharan
Trade Routes; Silk Road; Indian)
 Influence of Islam in Shaping Region
 Expansion and influence of Islam upon other
regions (Sub-Saharan Africa; Western Europe;
India)
 Empire and Nation-State Building (treatment
of Muslims vs. Non-Muslims; conflicts
between religious factions; efforts at
unification and expansion)
 Social Interactions with in the Middle East
(Muslims/Non-Muslims; Roles of Women;
Changing Social Expectations; Coercive Labor)
PREVIOUS ESSAY QUESTIONS:
 Analyze similarities/differences between the
role of the state in Japan’s economic
development and the role of the state in the
economic development of ONE of the following
during the late nineteenth and early 20th
centuries (China, Ottoman Empire, Russia)
 Compare the 19th century nation-building in
Latin America to that of the Middle East in the
20th Century
 Analyze continuities and changes in trade
networks between Africa and Eurasia from 300
to 1450 CE
 Analyze major changes and continuities in
nationalist ideology and practice in the Middle
East from World War One to the present.
 Compare the historical processes of empire
building in the Spanish maritime empire in the
period from 1450 through 1800 with the
historical processes of empire building in the
Ottoman Empire.
 Analyze changes and continuities along the Silk
Roads from 200 BCE to 1450 CE
 Compare the process of state-building in TWO
of the following in the period 600 to 1450 CE
(Islamic States; City-States; Mongol Khanates)
 Compare the effects of the First World War in
TWO of the following regions (East Asia, Middle
East, South Asia)
 Compare differing responses to
industrialization in any TWO of the following
(Japan, Ottoman Empire, China, Russia)