AP World History
Chapter 20: Terms & Questions
DirectionsPart 1: Write definitions for all terms. If necessary you may use outside resources. Just
make sure you provide a citation.
Pt 2: Choose THREE of the essay questions to answer. Make sure you indicate which
essay you are answering. Essays must be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs long. If necessary, feel
free to use outside resources to help, just provide a citation as to where you got the
information.
Pt. 3: See below.
Part 1: Terms
factories
El Mina
Luanda Royal African Company
“chattel slavery”
Asante
oba
Dahomey
San (Bushmen)
Great Trek
Shaka (Zulu)
Middle Passage
candomble vodun
Palmares.
Nzinga Mvemba (Kongo Kingdom)
Indies piece triangular trade
Osei Tutu
asantehene
Kingdom of Benin
Luo Fulani
Usuman Dan Fodio
Khoikoi (Hottentots)
Afrikaners
Mfecane
Swazi and Lesotho
salt water slaves
Creole slaves
obeah
Surinam (Maroons)
William Wilberforce
Part 2: Questions
1. Describe the different stages (dates, characteristics, etc.) in the Portuguese exploration
and penetration of Africa.
2. Trace the changes in the volume of the Atlantic slave trade between 1450 and 1850.
What were the high points and low points and why? Where were the slaves going?
3. How was the trans-Saharan slave trade different from the Atlantic slave trade?
4. Describe the arguments concerning the profitability of the Slave trade. Was it
profitable or not and why or why not?
5. How did the slave trade affect or impact that various African kingdoms? Did it help or
hinder the development of African states? Why or why not?
6. What was the Mfecane and how did it affect southern Africa?
7. Describe the social structure of American slave-based societies.
8. Describe the role of religion in the slave communities of the Americas.
9. How did the slaves respond to their situation in the Americas and why?
10. Why did the slave trade come to an end?
Part 3: Web Based Question
Directions: Choose one of the web sites in the section “On the Web” (end of Chapter) and
write a short summary/review of what the website is all about and how it relates to the
chapter.
AP World History
Chapter 21: Terms & Questions
DirectionsPart 1: Write definitions for all terms. If necessary you may use outside resources. Just
make sure you provide a citation.
Pt 2: Choose THREE of the essay questions to answer. Make sure you indicate which
essay you are answering. Essays must be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs long. If necessary, feel
free to use outside resources to help, just provide a citation as to where you got the
information.
Pt. 3: See below.
Part 1: Terms
Ottomans
Bayazid
Mehmed II
Janissaries:
vizier
Suleymaniye mosque
Sueymaniye the Magnificent*
battle of Lepanto (see Chapter 17) Safavid dynasty
Shi’ites/Sunnis (see Chapter 6)
Sail-al-Din
“Red Heads”
Ismâ’il
Battle of Chaldiran
Tabriz
Tahmasp I
Abbas I, the Great
“padishah”
imams
mullahs
Isfahan
Nadir Khan Afshar
Mughal dynasty
Babur
Humayan
Akbar
Din-i-Ilahi
Sati
Taj Mahal
Nur Jahan
Aurangzeb
Part 2: Questions
1. What were the similarities and differences between the three Muslim empires? Why
were they sometimes called “gunpowder empires”?
2. What has “skewed” the history of the Ottomans according to Stearns and why?
Describe the causes of Ottoman decline in the 17th century.
3. Describe the similarities and differences in the decline of the Abbasid and Ottoman
empires?
4. Compare and contrast the social and economic organization of the Ottomans and
Safavids.
5. Reading the reading on page 461-462 and answer the questions at the end of the
reading.
6. Describe the achievements of the Mughal dynasty.and reasons for its failure.
7. What weaknesses were common to all of the Muslim empires? Why?
Part 3: Web Based Question
Directions: Choose one of the web sites in the section “On the Web” (end of Chapter) and
write a short summary/review of what the website is all about and how it relates to the
chapter.
* also spelled: Suleiman the Magnificent
AP World History
Chapter 22: Terms & Questions
DirectionsPart 1: Write definitions for all terms. If necessary you may use outside resources. Just
make sure you provide a citation.
Pt 2: Choose THREE of the essay questions to answer. Make sure you indicate which
essay you are answering. Essays must be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs long. If necessary, feel
free to use outside resources to help, just provide a citation as to where you got the
information.
Pt. 3: See below.
Part 1: Terms
Asian sea trading network
carvels Goa
Ormuz
Malacca
Batavia
Dutch Trading empire
treaty of Gijanti (17570
Luzon
Mindanao
“tribute regimes”
Francis Xavier
Robert Di Nobli Hongwu (Zhu Yuanzhang)
“gentry class”
Macao and Canton
The Water Margin, Monkey, and The Golden Lotus
Zhenghe
Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall
Chongzhen Manchus (Jurchens)
Qing Dynasty
Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu
Edo
Deshima
School of National Learning
Part 2: Questions
1. Describe the three zones of the Asian sea trading network. Who were the players?
2. What did the Portuguese discover when they arrived at Calicut and how did they
respond?
3. How were the Dutch able to displace the Portuguese and how did their participation in
the Asian trading network differ from the Portuguese?
4. Where did the Europeans establish tribute systems and why?
5. How successful were European Christian missionary efforts (China and Japan)by the
early 1660s? Why do they succeed or not?
6. How did the Ming restore the traditional Chinese forms of government? How did the
Ming manage to control the scholar-Gentry class?
7. Why did the Ming collapse (and was replaced by the Manchus eventually)?
8. Why did the Chinese withdraw from commercial expansion?
9. What (describe in detail) steps led to the restoration of the Japanese shogunate?
10. Why did the Japanese resort to isolation as a response to European expansion? What
were the results of this isolation?
Part 3: Web Based Question
Directions: Choose one of the web sites in the section “On the Web” (end of Chapter) and
write a short summary/review of what the website is all about and how it relates to the
chapter.
AP World History
Chapter 23: Terms & Questions
DirectionsPart 1: Write definitions for all terms. If necessary you may use outside resources. Just
make sure you provide a citation.
Pt 2: Choose THREE of the essay questions to answer. Make sure you indicate which
essay you are answering. Essays must be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs long. If necessary, feel
free to use outside resources to help, just provide a citation as to where you got the
information.
Pt. 3: See below.
Part 1: Terms
population revolution
protoindustrialization
American Revolution
French Revolution
Louis XVI
Bastille
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen guillotine Maximilien Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Congress of Vienna Liberalism (liberals)
radicals
socialism
nationalism Greek revolution
Reform Bill of 1832
French Revolution of 1830 Belgian Revolution of 1830
James Watt
factory system
Luddites (Ned Ludd)
Chartist Movement
French Revolution of 1848 Revolutions of 1848 Louis Pasteur Benjamin Disraeli
Camillo di Cavour
Otto von Bismarck American Civil War (1861-1865)
Transformismo
"social question"
Karl Marx
revisionism
feminist movements
mass leisure culture Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Romanticism
Monroe Doctrine
American exceptionalism
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente Balkan nationalism
Part 2: Questions
1. Contrast and compare the causes of the American and French Revolutions. Why did
the French Revolution become more “radical” in its latter phases?
2. What were the lasting reforms or effects of the French Revolution (for Europe)?
3. Describe the new political movements that emerged in the aftermath of the French
Revolution.
4. Describe the origins of industrialization. How did the Industrial Revolution (IR) allow
Europe to dominate the rest of the world?
5. What changes in social organization did industrialization cause? Did it have a positive
or negative effect in the lifestyles of the Europeans or were some classes “left out”?
Explain.
6. How were industrialization and revolution linked?
7. How did government functions in Europe increase in response to the "social question"?
Give specific examples.
8. How did science and the arts diverge in the period after 1850? Did the IR and its
changes have any effect on the arts? Why or why not?
9. Describe what was happening in the U.S.( after Civil War), Canada, Australia and New
Zealand during the 19th century.
Part. 3: Web Based Question
Directions: Choose one of the web sites in the section “On the Web” page 536-537 and
write a short summary/review of what the website is all about and how it relates to the
chapter.
AP World History
Chapter 24: Terms & Questions
DirectionsPart 1: Write definitions for all terms. If necessary you may use outside resources. Just
make sure you provide a citation.
Pt 2: Choose THREE of the essay questions to answer. Make sure you indicate which
essay you are answering. Essays must be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs long. If necessary, feel
free to use outside resources to help, just provide a citation as to where you got the
information.
Pt. 3: See below.
Part 1: Terms
Kingdom of Mataram
Nawab & Robert Clive
Charles Cornwallis
Isandhlwana (1879)
contested settler colonies
Great Trek`
Boer War (1899-1902)
Great Mahele
sepoys
British Raj
battle of Plassey (1757
Presidencies Princely States
nabobs
evangelicals & utilitarians
sati
“gunboat diplomacy”
tropical dependencies
settlement colonies
White Dominions
white racial supremacy
Boer republics
Cecil Rhodes
James Cook
Kamehameha
Part 2: Questions
1. Contrast the motives for imperialism in the pre-industrial era with those of the
industrial era.
2. In what way did the Dutch control of Java provide a model for pre-19th century
imperial advance?
3. Describe the British takeover of India
4.. Contrast European social interaction with indigenous peoples before and after 1850.
5. What were the motives behind the global scramble for colonies?
6. Compare and contrast "tropical dependencies," "White Dominions," and "contested
settler colonies.”
7. Why did the Europeans not promote “higher education” in Africa? What effect did this
have on Africa in the long run?
8. How did 19th-century European imperialists transform their methods of economic
extraction?
9. In what ways were European colonial systems vulnerable?
10. How was the European conquest of New Zealand different from other areas and what
happened to the Maoris?
11. How did Hawaii develop into a very diverse society?
Part. 3: Web Based Question
Directions: Choose one of the web sites in the section “On the Web” page 561 and write
a short summary/review of what the website is all about and how it relates to the chapter.
AP World History
Chapter 25: Terms & Questions
DirectionsPart 1: Write definitions for all terms. If necessary you may use outside resources. Just
make sure you provide a citation.
Pt 2: Choose THREE of the essay questions to answer. Make sure you indicate which
essay you are answering. Essays must be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs long. If necessary, feel
free to use outside resources to help, just provide a citation as to where you got the
information.
Pt. 3: See below.
Part 1: Terms
Toussaint L'Overture
mask of Ferdinand (junta)
Miguel de Hidalgo
Augustín de Iturbide
Simon Bolívar
Gran Colombia José de San Martín
Dom João VI
DomPedro I
Dr José Rodríguez de Francia
Andrés Santa Cruz
caudillos
Rafael Carrera
“centralists”
“federalists”
“political ideology” Monroe Doctrine
guano
Positivism
Antonio López de Santa Ana
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
Benito Juárez
La Reforma
Maximilian von Habsburg.
Porfirio Diaz
Gauchos
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Argentine Republic
Domingo F. Sarmiento (Facundo) fazendas
Don Pedro II
Canudos
modernization theory
dependency theory cientificos Spanish American War
Panama Canal
Part 2: Questions
1. What are the causes of political change in Latin America? Give details.
2.Compare and contrast the Brazilian move to independence with other Latin American
independence movements.
3. Describe the “regional blocks” that developed in South and Central America.
4. What was the centralist vs. the federalist controversy?
5. Characterize the Liberal politics of the period from 1850 to 1870.
5. How successful was reform at resolving the problems of race, class, and gender?
6. What was the nature of the economic boom of the period after 1870?
7. Describe the history of the Mexican Republic from 1824 until the 1880 or so. Compare
and contrast it with the history of Argentina during the same period.
8. In what ways did the United States enter the political and economic affairs of Latin
America? What effect did this have on US & Latin American foreign relations?
Part. 3: Web Based Question
Directions: Choose one of the web sites in the section “On the Web” page 588-589 and
write a short summary/review of what the website is all about and how it relates to the
chapter.
AP World History
Chapter 26: Terms & Questions
DirectionsPart 1: Write definitions for all terms. If necessary you may use outside resources. Just
make sure you provide a citation.
Pt 2: Choose THREE of the essay questions to answer. Make sure you indicate which
essay you are answering. Essays must be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs long. If necessary, feel
free to use outside resources to help, just provide a citation as to where you got the
information.
Pt. 3: See below.
Part 1: Terms
Selim III
Mahmud II
ayan
ulama
Tanzimat reforms
Abdul Hamid
Ottoman Society for Union & Progress (Young Turks)
Mamluks
Murad
Muhammad Ali
khedives University of Al-Azhar
Suez Canal
al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh Ahmad Orabi
Khartoum
Muhammad Achmad (Mahdi)
Khalifa Abdallahi
General Kitchener
Battle of Omdurman
Nurhaci
Banner Armies
Kangxi
compradors
Opium War
Lin Zexu
(Hong Xinquan) Taiping Rebellion
“White Lotus”
Cixi
Boxer Rebellion
Triads/ Society of Elders & Brothers Sun Yat-sen
Puyi
Part 2: Questions
1. What was the nature of the 18th-century crisis in the Ottoman Empire and why was it
not fatal? What weaknesses were present in the Ottoman Empire at this time?
2. Describe the reforms that were introduced in the Ottoman Empire between the reign of
Mahmud II and 1876.
3. Describe the events that led to the overthrow of the Ottoman Sultanate in 1908.
4. How did Muhammad Ali come to power?
5. How did the British gain control of Egypt? What happened in the Mahdist revolt and
why?
6. What reforms did the Manchus introduce and how successful were they?
7. What problems did the Manchu dynasty encounter during the 19th century?
8. How did Europeans gain entry into China? How were they able to gain power in
China?
9. Describe the events that led to the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.
Part. 3: Web Based Question
Directions: Choose one of the web sites in the section “On the Web” page 613 and write
a short summary/review of what the website is all about and how it relates to the chapter.
AP World History
Chapter 27: Terms & Questions
DirectionsPart 1: Write definitions for all terms. If necessary you may use outside resources. Just
make sure you provide a citation.
Pt 2: Choose THREE of the essay questions to answer. Make sure you indicate which
essay you are answering. Essays must be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs long. If necessary, feel
free to use outside resources to help, just provide a citation as to where you got the
information.
Pt. 3: See below.
Part 1: Terms
Tsar Alexander I
Holy Alliance
Nicholas I
Decembrist rising
Crimean War (1854 –1856 Tsar Alexander II
Emancipation of the serfs, 1861
Zemstvoes
Trans-Siberian railroad
Count Witte
intelligentsia
Bakunin -check here for info: 
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/bio/index.htm
Anarchists
Lenin: (Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov)
Bolsheviks
Russian Revolution of 1905 Russo-Japanese War, 1905 Tsar Nicolas II
Duma
Stolypin reforms
kulaks
Turgenev, Tolstoy & Dostoevsky
terakoya
National Studies School
Dutch Studies
Matthew Perry
Meiji Restoration
“prefects”
Iwasaki Yataro
Diet
Ministry of Industry zaibatsu
Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
"yellow peril"
Part 2: Questions
1. Compare and contrast Japan and Russia during the process of industrialization, 19th
century.
2. Describe Russian reforms and industrialization efforts from 1861 to 1900.
3. Describe the forces leading to revolution in Russia by 1905? Be specific.
4. Describe Japanese reforms and industrialization efforts from 1853 to 1900. What effect
did this have on society in general?
5. What social and economic changes took place in Japan as a result of industrialization?
6. Describe how the Japanese interacted with the rest of the world after Perry’s forced
opening of Japan. Did the West have any influence on Japanese culture and why or why
not?
Part. 3: Web Based Question
Directions: Choose one of the web sites in the section “On the Web” page 633 and write
a short summary/review of what the website is all about and how it relates to the chapter.