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Unit 4: Exam

Study Guide

Directions: Study the following topics, questions, skills, and materials. Be able to completely discuss each one.

Your exam will be 25 multiple choice questions (2 points each) and you will choose 1 short answer to complete

(10 points) for a total of 60 summative points.

Things to Know

1. Identify and discuss important long-distance postclassical trade patterns and routes.

2. Explain the reasons behind an increase in postclassical political, religious, and diplomatic travel.

3. Discuss the roles of missionary campaigns, long-distance travel, and cross-cultural exchanges.

4. Explain the presence and spread of pandemics across the era.

5. Explain the rise of the Ming dynasty in China.

6. Discuss and identify state-building recovery efforts in Europe.

7. Outline some key elements of the Renaissance in Europe.

8. Compare and contrast Ming and European exploration efforts

9. Explain the motives and key features of technology behind European maritime exploration and expansion.

10. Compare and contrast key European explorations of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.

11. Explain the origins and features of trading-post empires.

12. Compare and contrast Portuguese, English, and Dutch conquests in southeast Asia.

13. Explain the development of the Russian empire in Asia.

14. Understand and discuss the connections between commercial rivalries and the Seven Years’ War.

15. Explain and identify key features of the Columbian exchange.

16. Outline the origins of the global trade network.

17. Explain the origins and development of the Protestant Reformation.

18. Identify and discuss key features of the Catholic Reformation.

19. Understand and explain the relationship between the Reformation, witch hunts, and the religious wars.

20. Discuss the attempted revival of empire in early modern Europe.

21. Compare and contrast the new monarchies of Spain, France, and England and the constitutional states in

England and Holland.

22. Compare and contrast absolute monarchies in France and Russia.

23. Explain the rise of the European states system.

24. Identify and discuss key features of early modern European capitalist society and proto-industrialization.

25. Discuss the course and features of social change in early modern Europe.

26. Explain the causes and course of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment.

27. Explain the development of the Spanish presence in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Peru.

28. Compare and contrast the Iberian empires in the Americas and the settler colonies in North America.

29. Explain the formation and features of multicultural societies in the Americas.

30. Explain the roles of mining, agriculture, sugar, and slavery in the economy of the Spanish empire.

31. Understand the roles played by fur traders and settlers in early colonial North America compared to the

economic developments in the Spanish empire and Portuguese Brazil.

32. Discuss the interactions between Christianity and native religions in the Americas.

33. Explain the exploration and colonization of Australia and the Pacific islands

34. Compare and contrast state development in early modern west and east Africa.

35. Identify and discuss important features of early modern central and south African kingdoms.

36. Compare and contrast the spread of Islam and Christianity across Africa during the early modern period.

37. Discuss features of social change across Africa during the early modern period.

38. Explain the foundations and development of the Atlantic slave trade.

39. Understand the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa.

40. Explain the features, process, and legacy of the African diaspora.

41. Explain the development of African-American cultural traditions and the end of the slave trade.

42. Compare and contrast the Ming and Qing dynasties.

43. Explain the meaning of the "Son of Heaven" and the significance of the Chinese scholar-bureaucrats.

44. Discuss the impact of patriarchy and gender relations on women in Ming and Qing China.

45. Identify the connections between population growth and economic development in early modern China.

46. Identify and discuss important social groups within early modern China.

47. Explain the importance of the Confucian tradition and the return of Christianity to China.

48. Explain the process of Japanese unification and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate and resulting economic

and social changes.

49. Outline important features of Tokugawa Japanese society and culture.

50. Explain the origins and expansion of the Ottoman empire.

51. Identify and discuss key features of the Safavid empire.

52. Explain the origins, course, and legacy of the Mughal empire.

53. Explain the important features of the Islamic dynastic state system.

54. Understand the roles of agriculture and trade in the Islamic empires.

55. Identify key features of religious affairs within the Islamic empires.

56. Compare and contrast the cultural patronage and achievements of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal rulers.

57. Explain and discuss the reasons behind the gradual decline of the Islamic empires

Assessing AP Themes

1. What state policies, mercantile practices, and innovations in transportation contributed to the intensification

of cross-cultural exchanges?

2. What were the global, economic and demographic effects of the Columbian Exchange?

3. What were the global, economic, political, social, and cultural effects of the sugar plantation system in the

Americas?

4. Compare the political, economic, and cultural reasons for setting up a trading-post (non-settler) colony and a

settler colony.

5. To what extent (how much) did religions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas change in this time

period?

6. What effect did the global migrations of people have on those who migrated (emigrated) and those who

stayed in their place of origin? Choose two regions and compare.

7. In what ways were the three Islamic empires similar and different? Choose three aspects to compare (i.e.

administration, cultural patronage, religious affairs, geography, etc.).

8. What political and social roles did Confucianism play in the traditions and changes in East Asia during the

Ming and Qing dynasties?