Midterm Study Guide- AP World 2016
Exam information:
Date: Monday January 25
Format: Multiple Choice and DBQ essay
Period 4: Global Interactions, c. 1450-1750 C.E.
Directions: Ask yourself the question in the left column. Your answer should go in the middle column. The right column is for key words or facts
that could appear in a multiple choice question or which could be used as evidence in an essay.
Globalizing Networks of
Communication and Exchange
1. Describe the degree of global
interconnection after 1500 CE
compared to before 1500. What
were the overall effects of this
change in global
interconnectedness?
2. How did the global trade network
after 1500 CE affect the preexisting regional trade networks?
(Indian Ocean, Mediterranean,
trans-Saharan, Silk Routes)
3. What technical developments
made transoceanic European
travel & trade possible?
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Key Terms/People/Facts
4. What were the major notable
trans- oceanic voyages between
1450-1750 CE? What nations
were involved in sponsoring
voyages? What impact did these
voyages have on the home nation?
5. What new financial and monetary
means made new scale(s) of trade
possible? What previously
established scale(s) of trade
continued?
6. What was the role of European
merchants in global trade
networks between 1450 and
1750?
7. What was the role of silver in
facilitation global trade?
8. What was the Atlantic system?
What were the social and
economic effects of the Atlantic
trading system?
9. What were the biological effects of
the Columbian exchange?
10. How did the exchange of people
and goods across the Atlantic
affect the environment?
11. How did the interactions in the
Atlantic system affect the spread
of religions? What areas did
Buddhism, Christianity and Islam
spread in this period? How did
some religions change as a result
of interactions?
12. How did increased wealth in
Europe, East and South Asia affect
the arts and culture in this period?
New Forms of Social Organization and
Modes of Production
13. How did the role of agriculture
change between 1450-1750?
What pre-requisite conditions
made these changes possible?
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Key Terms/People/Facts
14. How did labor systems
develop between 1450-1750?
Consider: peasant labor, slavery,
labor systems in the colonial
Americas
15. How did the Atlantic slave
trade affect both African societies
and the economy of the
Americas?
16. How did the post-1450 economic
order affect the social, economic,
and political elites?
State Consolidation and Imperial
Expansion
17. How did empires attempt to
administer the new widespread
nature of their territories? How
did the role of Africa, the
Americas, Asia, and Europe
develop in this new world-wide
political order? How did the
people of various empires react to
their government’s methods?
18.
How did political rulers
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legitimize and consolidate their
rule?
What role did religion play in
legitimizing political rule?
19.
How did Europeans go about
creating new global empires and
trade networks?
20.
How did pre-existing landbased empires and new empires
during this era compare to
previous era’s empires? (consider
Mughals, Ottomans, Russians)
21.
What obstacles to empirebuilding did empires confront, and
how did they respond to these
challenges?
Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration, c. 1750 CE -1900 CE
Industrialization and Global Capitalism
1. What combination of factors were
necessary to begin the Industrial
Revolution?
2. How did industrialization change how
goods were produced?
3. How did Industrialization affect seemingly
unrelated fields like social structures,
culture, (arts, religion, literature) & the
economy?
4. What was the “second industrial
revolution”?
5. How did industrialization influence global
trade patterns? Consider source of raw
materials, decline of some industries, new
markets for goods and metals
6. What economic theories developed as a
result of the Industrial Revolution? How
did they differ in their understanding of the
new industrial economy?
7. What financial institutions facilitated
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industrial production?
8. What significant technological
developments occurred during the
Industrial Revolution? How did they
change the lives of people around the
world?
9. What were the responses to the Industrial
Revolution around the world? Consider the
response of workers and governments
10. How did the Industrial Revolution affect
the social structure of industrialized
societies? How did the Industrial
Revolution affect family, gender roles,
demographics?
Imperialism and Nation-State Formation
11. What are the similarities & differences
between colonialism and imperialism? How
did imperialism affect Europe’s influence
around the world?
12. Which states increased their influence and
control over their pre-existing colonies, and
which saw their influence decrease?
13. Which area(s) of the world became imperial
powers, and why did they imperialize while
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other areas did not?
14. How did imperialists justify imperialism?
15. What were the responses to imperialism
around the world?
16. How did imperialism affect Africa, Asia, and
Oceania?
Nationalism, Revolution and Reform
17. What role did the Enlightenment play in
making political revolutions & rebellions
possible? What were the effects of these
ideals on the formation and reform of
governments?
18. What is the basis of national identity and
nationalism? How did governments use
these new ideas on their populations?
19. How did rebellions and revolutions in the
Americas and Europe reflect Enlightenment
ideals?
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20. How did slaves’ resistance affect existing
authorities in the Americas?
21. What was the relationship between
nationalism and anti-colonialism?
22. What new political ideologies developed
from c. 1750-1900?
23. What people or issues did Enlightenment
thinkers ignore or overlook?
Global Migration
24. How did migrations in this period compare
to earlier periods? What were the main
social, economic, and political causes and
effects of this new age of migration?
25. How did the Industrial Revolution affect
migration patterns during this period?
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26. Why did people migrate? Consider
voluntary and involuntary migration,
seasonal and permanent migrations
27. How did migrants preserve and transplant
their culture in their new homes?
28. What were the social consequences and
reactions to the 19th century migrations?
Adapted from Bill Strickland’s Key Concepts Study Guide