AP World Exam Review Packet #2
1) Islam
23) Chinampas
2) Bedouin
24) Calpulli
3) Umma
25) Split inheritance
4) Caliph
26) Mita
5) Mawali
27) Quipu
6) Dhimmi
28) Mahayana/Zen Buddhism
7) Harem
29) Sinification
8) Ayan
30) Junks
9) Sufis
31) Jurchens
10) Mamelukes
32) Flying money
11) Sati
33) Taika Reforms
12) Sharia
34) Kami
13) Stateless societies
35) Bushi
14) Mali/Ghana/Songhay
36) Shogun
15) Iconoclasm
37) Daimyos
16) Kievan Rus
38) Khanate
17) Boyars
39) White Lotus Society
18) Tartars
40) Kuriltai
19) Manorialism
41) Renaissance
20) Feudalism
42) Secularization
21) Hanseatic League
43) Humanism
22) Olmec/Toltec/Mayan/Aztec/Inca
44) Ethnocentrism
Chap 6 & 7:
1) What conditions allowed for the creation and rise of Islam in Arabia?
2) How did Islam unite and effectively rule diverse people and cultures?
3) How had the Islamic Empire changed by the time of the Abbasid caliphate?
4) How did contacts between Hindu society and Islam affect each civilization?
5) What motivated the Crusades and how did they affect the combatants?
6) What Muslim achievements and technologies influenced other civilizations?
Chap 8:
7) What African political and social institutions predate the arrival of Islam?
8) How did the arrival of Islam and Christianity affect African societies?
Chap 9:
9) How did Byzantium originate?
10) What led to the split between Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches?
11) What contributions did the Byzantines make to the development of Europe?
Chap 10:
12) What problems did the medieval church face and how did it solve them?
13) What economic and demographic developments changed Western society?
Chap 11:
14) How did the Inca overcome geographic problems to unite their large empire?
15) What social, political, and technological problems did the Aztecs face?
Chap 12:
16) How did the Sui & Tang reestablish a centralized empire in China?
17) How does Neo-Confucianism influence Chinese culture and politics?
Chap 13:
18) Describe the influence of Chinese culture on Japan.
19) How did the rise of a provincial warrior elite change Japanese social/political institutions?
20) To what extent did Korea and Vietnam accept or reject Chinese influences?
Chap 14
21) How did the Mongols govern their empire and its peoples?
22) How did Mongol rule influence Europe, the Muslim World, China, and Russia?
Chap 15:
23) What institutions give Europe an advantage at the end of the Post-Classical period?
24) How did the Renaissance affect and benefit European society?
25) Which regions were outside the world network at the end of the Post-Classical period and why were
they vulnerable?
Directions:
 Locate and highlight the centers of civilization during the Post-Classical period
 Using arrows, indicate economic and political relationships between areas
 Indicate the location and direction of nomadic threats to classical civilizations.
 Indicate the spread of the major world religions by the end of the Post-Classical Era