AP World History: Period 4 Objectives
Period 4
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Objective
46.
Explain the causes and impact of the Age of Exploration and mercantilism
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47.
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Explain the expansion of early European colonial empires before the Americas
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48.
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56.
French Wars of religion
Spanish reaction
Queen Elizabeth I and the Spanish armada
Thirty years war
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Describe the economic trends in the seventeenth century
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430-433
Catholic church reaction to the reformation
Society of Jesus
Council of Trent
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Explain the causes and effect of Religious Wars
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429-430
the Spread of the Protestant reformation
Calvin and Calvinism
The English Reformation
Socail Impact of the Protestant reformation
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Explain the Catholic reformation
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425-428
Who was Martin Luther
95 thesis
How his beliefs changes Germany
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Explain the cultural changes in Western Europe caused by the Reformation
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423-425
The growth of state power
Social changes in the Renaissance
The Impact of Printing
Church ad Religion on the Eve of the reformation
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Explain who Martin Luther was and his beliefs
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Article
on page
405
380-385
Define Renaissance and were it began
Cause of the Renaissance
Explain Humanism
How artistic expression changed
Italian renaissance v. Northern Renaissance (western/Northern Europe)
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Describe the changes in Western Europe which led to the Reformation
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52.
Define causes and outcomes
Define Columbian exchange
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Explain the cultural changes in Western Europe caused by the Renaissance
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398-400
Significance of Christopher Columbia’s voyage
Who were Conquistadors and what did they do?
Treaty of Tordesillas
Portuguese colonization of Brazil
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Describe the global trade process known as the Columbian Exchange and it’s affects
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396-398
Explain why the Portuguese were the first to explore (what are their objectives)
Who were Dias and Vasco Da Gama
Explain how the Portuguese gained control of the spice trade
Explain the Spanish , English and Dutch voyages to Asia
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Examine European early conquest of the Americas
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49.
The motives
Gold, God and Glory
New inventions
Reading
390-396
437
What is Mercantilism
Example from the 17th century
What is a joint-stock company and an example
437-435
437- 439
437
57.
Describe the major developments of the Scientific Revolution
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400-404
442-444
406-413
Impact of European arrival (the Dutch)
Growth of the slave trade
Characteristics of the middle passage
Sources of Slaves
The effects of the slave trade
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Identify characteristics of African societies in the Early Modern Period by region
 Changes in the political and social structures
SPICE Ottoman Empire
SPICE Safavid and Mughal
SPICE Qing China
Describe the formation of European trading empires in Asia
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400-406
Frustration in king and Parliament
Civil War and the Commonwealth
Restoration and the Glorious Revolution
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Describe the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on Africans (African Diaspora)
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400-406
Social Structure
State and church in Colonial Latin America
Exploiting the Riches of the Americas
Competition between Spanish and Portuguese
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Explain the English Civil war and the Glorious Revolution
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523-525
Explain the structure of the colonial system in the Americas (encomienda system)
Involvement of the church
How colonial government mirror home governments
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Describe the effects of colonization on American Indian societies
 Exposure to new disease
Compare the colonial administration in the various New World empires, and between New
World regions
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439-442
522-523
Russia under Catherine the Great
Absolute monarchies in Russia
Reign of Ivan the terrible, and Peter the great
The Romanov dynasty
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Describe the European colonial systems established in Latin America
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62.
Define Absolute monarchy with characteristics
Explain Absolutism in France, Prussia, and Austria (include family names)
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Summarize the development and expansion of post-Mongol Russia
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511-518
Cause of the enlightenment
Political thinkers and their theories
Outcomes
Enlightenment culture
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Describe the political development of Early Modern Europe. (ex-Absolutism)
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60.
Major scientific achievement (include the scientist)
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Explain the meaning and impact of the Enlightenment
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509-511
391-393
412
450-460
461-476
480-492
413-419
Role to the Dutch East India Company
The effect of the European expansion
Effects on social structure
Effect on the economy
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Summarize the development of Japan during Period 4
Summarize the culture of Korea and Vietnam during Period 4
Explain the impact of new trade networks on pre-existing networks (silk road, trans-Saharan and
Indian Ocean)
Analyze the changes in Women’s rights worldwide in Period 4
493-503
503-505