AP WORLD HISTORY
UNIT 1:
Early Agricultural Societies
Minoans and Mycenaean (Foundations of Greece)
Phoenicians travel along Mediterranean Sea
UNIT 2:
Greece (Athens; Sparta)
Alexander the Great
Rome (Republic, Monarchy, Empire)
Conflict over Mediterranean Trade (GreekPersian Wars; Peloponnesian War; Punic Wars)
Nomadic Invasions
Byzantine Empire (Justinian)
Rise of Christianity
UNIT 3:
Byzantine Empire
Kievan Rus’
Feudalism and Manorialism (Western)
Shift in Trade Dominance (East  West)
Schism (Roman Catholic; Eastern Orthodox)
Rise of Western Kingdoms (France, England)
The Crusades
UNIT 4:
Age of Exploration
Renaissance
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Scientific Revolution
Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism
Columbian Exchange and Atlantic Slave Trade
Mercantilism
UNIT 5:
Industrialization
The Enlightenment
French Revolution and Napoleon
Scramble for Africa
Imperialism in Asia (China, India, Indonesia)
Ideologies (Communism, Liberalism,
Conservatism)
UNIT 6:
World War I; World War II
Great Depression
Rise of New Ideologies (Fascism; Communism)
The Cold War
Economic Recovery
End of the Cold War
EUROPE REVIEW
KEY THEMES:
 Development and Influence of Empires
 Cultural and Political Innovation
 Ethnic, Cultural, and Social Diversity
 Imperialism (Old and New)
 Mediterranean Trade
PREVIOUS ESSAY QUESTIONS:
 Analyze continuities and changes in trade
networks between Africa and Eurasia from 300
to 1450 CE
 Compare demographic and environmental
effects of the Columbian Exchange in the
Americas with the demographic and
environmental effects in ONE of the following
regions between 1492 and 1750 (Africa, Asia,
Europe)
 Analyze similarities and differences in
techniques of imperial administration in TWO of
the following empires: (Han China,
Mauryan/Gupta India, Imperial Rome)
 Analyze changes and continuities along the Silk
Roads from 200 BCE to 1450 CE
 Analyze continuities and changes in the cultural
and political life of ONE of the following
societies (China 100 – 600 CE; Rome 100 – 600
CE; India 300 – 600 CE)
 Compare the historical processes of empire
building in the Spanish maritime empire during
the period from 1450 through 1800 with the
historical processes of empire building in ONE
of the following land-based empires (The
Ottoman Empire or the Russian Empire)
 Analyze the social and economic
transformations that occurred in the Atlantic
world as a result of new contacts among
Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas from
1492 to 1750.
 Analyze continuities and changes that resulted
from the spread of Islam into ONE of the
following regions in the period between 800 CE
and 1750 CE (West Africa, South Asia, Europe)