Regions & Religions
The religion that is most prominent in Europe and spread to the New World, initially through Spanish and Portuguese colonization
What is Christianity?
The type of religion where believers only believe in one god...
What is monotheism?
This country is strongly associated with Confucianism...
What is China?
This is the theme that deals with government, power dynamics, war, laws, etc...
What is Political?
Though technically part of Asia, this region is the crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe...
What is the Middle East?
Though founded in South Asia in the 400s B.C.E., this religion becomes very popular in East and Southeast Asia in the following centuries...
What is Buddhism?
The type of religion, like Hinduism, in which the participants believe and worship many gods, as opposed to one...
What is polytheism?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This is the theme that involves trade routes, money, trade, and gold...
What is economics?
The largest continent in the world...
What is Asia?
The monotheistic religion that was founded in 610 C.E. and spread rapidly, first in the Middle East and then through North Africa, Central Asia, and even into Spain...
What is Islam/Muslims?
This concept is present in all of the major world religions and is represented by the Sufis in Islam and the Bhaktis in Hinduism...
What is Mysticism...
This is the method by which Chinese men would be allowed to serve in the Imperial Bureaucracy...
What are Civil Service Examinations?
This is the theme in which we might discuss the caste system, the structure of feudal Europe, or any other hierarchy of a state or civilization...
What is society/social?
This multi-continental landmass was considered the known world for its inhabitants during pre-Columbian times prior to 1492 and includes the birthplaces for all major world religions...
What is Afroeurasia?
The polytheistic religion of the vast majority of people in South Asia...
What is Hinduism?
Who are the Shia?
This important concept in Confucianism emphasizes the importance of reverence to family and ancestors...
What is filial piety?
This is the theme of AP World History for discussion of music, religions, food, dress, etc.
What is Culture?
These two continents were collectively known as the New World after Columbus discovered their existence while searching for alternate routes to Asian markets...
What are North and South America?
Though founded in the Middle East around 3700 years ago, members of this religion were ousted from their homeland by the Roman Empire, which created a diaspora that lasted almost 2000 years...
This religion has five pillars, which include ritual fasting (Ramadan), daily prayer, almsgiving, pilgrimage (hajj), and strict monotheism...
What is Islam?
Because Confucian societies value industry and those that actually make and manufacture goods, this theme from P.I.E.C.E.S. will be important in our study of the Song Dynasty...
What is Innovation?
This theme deals with the exchange of plants, animals, disease, and other natural factors that humans interact with...
What is Environment?
This continent is considered the birthplace of humanity?
What is Africa?