Barron's How to Prepare for the AP World History Exam

by McCannon, John

• ISBN13: 9780764132711
• ISBN10: 0764132717
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Barrons Test Prep

Summary

Students preparing to take the Advanced Placement Examination in World History will find two full-length model exams with answer keys plus a chronological review of world history in this valuable manual. Also featured is advice on answering the comparative essay question, as well as strategies for answering the AP exam's multiple-choice and document-based questions. The book's subject review divides world history into the following five categories: Foundations of World Civilization (4000 B.C.-1000 A.D.); World Cultures Maturing (1000-1450); World Cultures Interacting (1450-1750); World Cultures in the Modern Era (1750-1914); and The Twentieth Century and Contemporary World Cultures (1914-2005).

Table of Contents

UNIT ONE INTRODUCTION	1	(34)
Section A How to Use This Book	2	(2)
Section B The Advanced Placement Examination in World History: An Overview	4	(3)
Section C Multiple-Choice Question Strategies	7	(6)
Section D Free-Response (Essay) Questions: General Tips	13	(4)
Section E Document-Based Question Strategies	17	(8)
Section F Change-over-Time Essay Question Strategies	25	(4)
Section G Comparative Essay Question Strategies	29	(6)
UNIT TWO FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD CIVILIZATION (CA. 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E.)	35	(64)
Unit Overview	36	(5)
Geography, Environment, and Humanity	41	(4)
Geographic orientation
Humanity and the environment.
Quick Review	43	(2)
Building Blocks of Civilization	45	(8)
Early humans and the Stone Age
Neolithic revolution: Pastoralism and agriculture
From Stone Age to civilization: Early cities, metallurgy, and writing.
Quick Review	51	(2)
Major Societies, Kingdoms, and Empires to 600 C.E.	53	(17)
The river valley civilizations
The Celts
The ancient Middle East
Greece and Rome
China through the Han and Sui dynasties
Central Asia
Early Japan
Classical India
Byzantium
Early medieval Europe
Bantu Africa, Nubia, and Ghana
Early cultures in the Americas.
Quick Review	68	(2)
Social Structure and Cross-Cultural Connections	70	(8)
Class structures
Forms of government
Slavery
War
Trade
Religious interaction
The migration of peoples.
Quick Review	76	(2)
Religious Traditions and Belief Systems	78	(21)
Polytheism
Judaism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Daoism (Taoism)
Confucianism
Christianity
Islam.
Quick Review	92	(2)
Unit Two: Review Questions	94	(5)
UNIT THREE WORLD CULTURES MATURING (600-1450)	99	(68)
Unit Overview	100	(4)
Europe During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance	104	(16)
Feudalism and the manor system
The ideal of Christendom
The western monarchies and the eastern frontier
The Crusades
Urbanization, trade, and society
Medieval culture
The Renaissance.
Quick Review	117	(3)
Islam in the Middle East and Africa	120	(7)
The expansion of Islam and the first caliphates
Islam in Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa
The rise of the Turks
Islamic culture.
Quick Review	125	(2)
China, Japan, and East Asia	127	(9)
The Sui and Tang dynasties
Song (Sung) China
The Mongol conquest and Yuan China
The Early Ming dynasty
Heian Japan
Feudal Japan and the first shogunates
Korea and Vietnam.
Quick Review	133	(3)
South and Southeast Asia	136	(6)
India and the Delhi Sultanate
Other Indian states
Southeast Asia
The Polynesian migrations.
Quick Review	140	(2)
The Mongol Empires	142	(5)
Genghis Khan and the rise of the Mongols
The first wave of conquest
The second wave of conquest and the Pax Mongolica
Breakup of the Mongol Empire.
Quick Review	144	(3)
Sub-Saharan Africa	147	(6)
Introduction to sub-Saharan Africa
West and Central Africa
The eastern coast.
Quick Review	150	(3)
The Americas	153	(14)
North America
Mexico and Central America
South America.
Quick Review	157	(3)
Unit Three: Review Questions	160	(7)
UNIT FOUR WORLD CULTURES INTERACTING (1450--1750)	167	(64)
Unit Overview	168	(5)
Europe: Reformation, Absolutism, and Enlightenment	173	(12)
The Protestant Reformation and its aftermath
Absolute and parliamentary monarchies
The printing press, the Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment philosophy
Society and economics.
Quick Review	182	(3)
Age of Discovery, Age of Imperialism: The Western Campaign of Exploration and Colonization	185	(8)
Economic motivations and technological capabilities
The Iberian wave of exploration: Spain and Portugal
The northern wave: France, the Dutch Republic, and England.
Quick Review	191	(2)
Islamic Empires in the Middle East and Africa	193	(6)
The Ottoman Empire
North Africa under the Ottoman Empire
The Safavid Empire in Persia.
Quick Review	197	(2)
China, Japan, and East Asia	199	(7)
Ming China
The Qing (Manchu) conquest of China
Feudal war and reunification in Japan
The Tokugawa Shogunate and the consolidation of Japan.
Quick Review	203	(3)
South and Southeast Asia	206	(5)
Mughal India
Southeast Asia.
Quick Review	209	(2)
Sub-Saharan Africa	211	(6)
West and Central Africa
South Africa
East Africa
African culture
The Atlantic slave trade.
Quick Review	215	(2)
The Americas as ``New World''	217	(14)
New Spain
Portuguese Brazil
Dutch and English North America
French Canada and Louisiana
The Russian-American Company
The Columbian Exchange.
Quick Review	222	(2)
Unit Four: Review Questions	224	(7)
UNIT FIVE WORLD CULTURES IN THE MODERN ERA (1750--1914)	231	(88)
Unit Overview	232	(5)
The Europeans at Home: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform	237	(11)
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
Reaction and reform: Politics in Europe, 1815--1914
Intellectual and cultural currents.
Quick Review	245	(3)
Industrialization and Worldwide Economic Trends	248	(8)
The Industrial Revolution
Economic theories and movements
The global impact of industrialization.
Quick Review	253	(3)
The Europeans Abroad: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Foreign Policy	256	(9)
Causes of imperialism
Europe's overseas empires
Aggression at home: Nationalism, warfare, and alliance systems.
Quick Review	262	(3)
The Middle East	265	(7)
The decline of the Ottoman Empire
Egypt and North Africa
Persia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
Quick Review	270	(2)
China and Japan	272	(11)
Qing (Manchu) China in decline
Isolation and partial modernization in Tokugawa Japan
The Meiji Restoration and Japanese ascendancy.
Quick Review	280	(3)
India and Southeast Asia	283	(8)
From foothold to mastery: The British in late-eighteenth-century India
India under British rule: The 1800s
Southeast Asia.
Quick Review	288	(3)
Sub-Saharan Africa	291	(10)
Freedom's twilight: African states from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s
The end of the Atlantic slave trade
European imperialism and the ``Scramble for Africa.''
Quick Review	298	(3)
Revolution and Consolidation in North and South America	301	(18)
The American Revolution and the birth of the United States
The Haitian Rebellion
The Latin American wars of independence
Political consolidation in Latin America.
Quick Review	308	(4)
Unit Five: Review Questions	312	(7)
UNIT SIX THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD CULTURES (1914-Present)	319	(104)
Unit Overview	320	(7)
World War I	327	(11)
Background and beginning
Combat
The home front
The Paris Peace Conference
Long-term consequences.
Quick Review	335	(3)
The Twenty Years' Crisis: The World During the Interwar Period	338	(13)
Political extremism and economic depression in Europe
Nationalism and modernization in the Middle East
Militarism and revolution in Asia
Dictatorship in Latin America.
Quick Review	348	(3)
World War II and the Holocaust	351	(12)
The road to war
The Axis ascendant, 1939--1941
The Allied quest for victory, 1942--1945
The Holocaust and other war crimes.
Quick Review	360	(3)
The Cold War	363	(11)
Wartime diplomacy
The Cold War begins, 1945--1949
The Cold War globalizes, 1949--1968
The late stages of the Cold War, 1968--1991.
Quick Review	371	(3)
Divergent Forms of Development in the Postwar World, 1945--1991	374	(19)
Recovery in postwar Europe
Decolonization and the emergence of the developing world
The Middle East
Africa
Asia, Latin America.
Quick Review	390	(3)
Social Developments, Cultural Changes, and Intellectual Trends	393	(14)
Economic globalization
Social trends and movements
Women and the shift in gender relations
Thought, culture, and science.
Quick Review	403	(4)
Integration or Fragmentation? Globalism in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries	407	(16)
Diplomacy after the Cold War
Security concerns
Nationalist extremism, ethnic tensions, and religious fundamentalism
Environmental issues
Regionalism, globalization, and multiculturalism.
Quick Review	414	(3)
Unit Six: Review Questions	417	(6)
UNIT SEVEN MODEL ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORLD HISTORY EXAMINATIONS	423	(54)
Model Examination I	427	(24)
Model Examination II	451	(26)
Index	477