Unit 1 - State Building
This type of grain was drought resistant, twice as fast at growing, and came from Vietnam to China.
What is Champa Rice?
The major land route that connected China all the way to Rome and used for trade.
What is the Silk Road?
Empires in Eurasia expanded their land holdings based by taking over their neighbors using this new military technology.
What is gunpowder?
This type of sail was used on smaller exploration boats to help navigate in places with uncertain wind patterns.
What was the Lateen Sail (triangle sail)?
The acronym that we use for remembering the 6 major themes of AP World History.
What is InSPECT?
This civilization used the Mita system which involved citizens paying taxes by working in silver mines or building roads for the empire.
What was the Inca Empire?
This group of people conquered the majority of the Eurasian continent due to their horse and bow skills.
Who were the Mongols?
This is the term used for the group of people that enforce the rules and laws of an empire or government.
What is a bureaucracy?
This was the main cause of death for the native populations after Europeans arrived in the Americas.
What was disease?
This part of your writing involves making a claim in response to a prompt along with a historically defensible line of reasoning.
What is a thesis?
This location in Dar-al-Islam contained writings translated from Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit to Arabic to preserve past knowledge.
What was the House of Wisdom?
These predictable and seasonal winds allowed for the Indian Ocean trade network to flourish due to ships being carried from India/Malaysia to Africa and back.
What are the Monsoon winds?
Christian Empires in Europe used this belief that rulers were endowed by God to be in charge to justify their absolute rule.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
This system of economics was based on the idea that a country should try to hoard as much silver as possible by establishing colonies and selling more to other nations.
What was mercantilism?
This is how much money you have to pay if you skip the AP Test in the spring after signing up for free.
What is $50?
These are the two branches of Buddhism, one which was friendlier towards merchants and one which was not. (Only need 1)
What are Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism?
These were large camel hotels for groups of traders throughout the Islamic world where people could stop during their travels.
What were the Caravanserai?
The Ottoman practice of kidnapping Christians to educate them to serve in the government and army.
What was Devshirme System (used to create Janissaries)?
This is the name of the boats that would sail from the Americas to the Philippines to trade Incan silver for Chinese goods.
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This Muslim traveler explored the Arabian Peninsula and the African continent and wrote a book of his travels which is referred to as the Rihla.
Who was Ibn Battuta?
Name 3 of the 4 technologies that spread from China to Europe due to trade and exchange.
Compass, Paper, Printing Press, and Gunpowder
The Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire both practiced this type of Islam.
What is Sunni Islam?
Name the two major Spanish conquistadors and the American civilizations that they took over.
What were Hernan Cortez and the Aztec, and Francisco Pizarro and the Inca?
Name 2 of the 4 types of questions you will see on the AP Exam.
What are multiple choice questions, short answer questions, document based questions, and long essay questions?