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AP World History
Midterm Review
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What marked the beginning of “history” and the end of “prehistory?”
What are hominids?
Roughly how long ago did human beings migrate into the Americas?
What does “Paleolithic” mean?
What are some changes brought about by the Agricultural Revolution?
What modern-day country encompasses land that used to be Mesopotamia?
What kind of writing did Mesopotamians use?
What are theocracies, democracies, and empires?
Which Mesopotamian is famous for his code of laws?
What details do you remember about that code of laws?
Who were the first monotheists?
What is cultural diffusion? Can you give some examples?
Who traded purple dye and other wares around the Mediterranean world and invented the
earliest form of our alphabet?
Who were the Indo-Europeans and where did they come from originally? What else do you know
about them?
Who were the Bantu? Where did they come from, and where did they go?
How did modern historians decipher hieroglyphics?
Where is the Indus River Valley? What do you remember about early cities in the Indus River
Valley?
Who were the Dravidians and the Aryans?
What is the caste system?
Can you name the Chinese dynasties in order?
What are the basic tenets of Confucianism?
What are the basic tenets of Daoism?
What are the basic tenets of Legalism?
What is the Mandate of Heaven? How did it affect leadership in China?
Where is Persia?
How did the Persians unify their vast empire?
Why did the Persians and the Greeks fight against each other in the Persian Wars?
How did the geography of Greece impact societal development there?
How big was Alexander the Great’s empire, and what happened to it after he died?
What do you remember about Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
Who finally conquered the Persian Empire?
Who were the combatants in the Punic Wars?
How did Julius Caesar consolidate power?
What was the Pax Romana?
Why did the Jews find it so difficult to live under Roman rule?
What is filial piety?
Who founded Buddhism? What are the basic tenets of Buddhism? Where was it founded?
Who was Ashoka?
What territories were connected by the Silk Road?
What do you know about travel along the Silk Road… people involved? Goods? Safety?
Monsoons?
Why was the Roman Empire already growing weak for centuries before it finally fell?
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Which Roman emperor adopted Christianity? When? How?
When did Rome “fall”?
What was the Byzantine Empire? Where was it centered? Why was it important?
What do you know about the early years of Christianity?
Who founded Islam? When? Where?
Who are the Bedouin?
What was the Arabian Peninsula like BEFORE the introduction of Islam?
What do you know about the beliefs of Islam?
Can you name the sects of Islam? Why did they split from each other?
Who were the Abbasids, and how did they rule their empire?
What is the Grand Canal, and why was it built?
What is the Great Wall, and why was it built?
Who is Justinian, and why is he important in history?
Who fought at the Battle of Tours? When? Why is it important?
What are the periods of the Middle Ages?
What are Romance Languages?
Do you understand how feudalism works?
How did geography impact the city of Constantinople?
Who were iconoclasts, and how did their beliefs lead to the Great Schism? When did that happen?
Can you explain the differences between leadership of the Roman Catholic Church and the
Byzantine Church?
Which ethnic groups had an impact on the development of Russia?
Who were St. Cyril and St. Methodius?
Can you describe characteristics of a nomadic/pastoralist society?
What military advantages were held by nomads of Central Asia?
Who were the Mongols? When and where were they important?
Do you know something about the Seljuk Turks and the Ottoman Turks? How are they important?
How did the Mongols maintain control and strengthen their territory?
When did the Byzantine Empire fall and to whom?
What agricultural advancements were made in the High Middle Ages, and how did these impact
the population of Europe?
What was the Black Death?
How was Aristotle important during the Middle Ages?
What is the Reconquista?
Who was William the Conqueror, what did he do, and when?
What do you know about the Crusades?
Who was Salah-al-Din
What religion was adopted by African trading empires? Why?
Who was Mansa Musa, and what is he remembered for?
Who are the Swahili people?