Assignments for the upcoming week (Feb 28-March 4)

1-Cliffs AP (aka "The Yellow Book") pp 150-182

• Notes
• Answer the sample questions (quiz yourself! I will not be scoring you based on correct answers, so just copying down the answers does you no good). You do NOT need to write the questions... just the answers.
  

2-APEX lessons 1.1 & 1.2 (remember, only the items with the red square are graded)

3-Gender Assignment--Answer the four questions based on the docs for your region:

Research Questions: Gender and Empire

Directions: Answer the following questions by using your text and handouts. Divide the readings among group members according to the six areas of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, China, Europe, India, and the Middle East and North Africa, although particular countries might be named within some regions. Read the handouts and summarize key points on the map on the appropriate area of the world.

1. What part did women play in trade, business, or commercial activity either within or between kingdoms or empires?

2. What influence did a woman’s education have in determining job opportunities during this time period?

3. How would you characterize the difference in opportunities for elite and non-elite women?

4. How did women fit into the bureaucracy of these kingdoms or empires? Did this influence their political or legal rights?

Exam Review

AP WORLD HISTORY (periods 1 & 2)

Here you go. There will be 60 questions chosen from amongst the following (which are mostly grouped by chapter... in order they appear in the book... mostly):

1. Which movement began with the rejection of the Pope’s authority?

2. What discovery is Copernicus famous for?

3. Who were the following people? Where were they from? What were the major ideas did they teach?

a. …Martin Luther

b. …John Calvin

c. …John Locke

4. Who were the Jesuits? Who was their founder? What role did they play in education/ trade/ the transmission of ideas both in Europe and abroad (e.g. China, French Canada)?

5. What is “absolute monarchy”?

6. What is “constitutionalism”?

7. What was the result of limiting the power and authority of the Catholic church in Europe?

8. What were the results of the economic prosperity of the Catholic church?

9. What was the English Civil War? What was the result?

10. What was demonstrated by the condemnation of Galileo?

11. According to the great thinkers of the Scientific Revolution, how could one explain the great workings of the universe?

12. What is mercantilism?

13. How did King Phillip II of Spain prevent rebellion?

14. What was the representative body of colonial Virginia called?

15. To what did Boston owe its financial success?

16. What was the goal of the English Navigation Acts?

17. What was the representative body of colonial Virginia called?

18. Against which Amerindian group did the French fight?

19. Where did tobacco originate? … spread to?

20. Which products (agricultural or mining) generated the most wealth in the Spanish colonies?

21. Who was Bartolome de las Casas?

22. Who were the coureurs de bois?

23. Which country controlled most of Brazil by the end of the 16^th century?

24. When was sugar cane first grown in the West Indies?

25. When and why did it become the major crop in the West Indies?

26. Which group of people eventually became more economically important than Amerindian slaves?

27. What was the “Middle Passage”?

28. Why were 17^th century sugar plantations in Brazil reliant on slave labor?

29. What motivated slaves to work hard?

30. Why did men outnumber women on Caribbean plantations?

31. What was the life expectancy for slaves in the Caribbean? …in Brazil?

32. Who were the “drivers” on a plantation?

33. What drove slavery in the Caribbean?

34. What was the Great Circuit? What were the various legs of the route?

35. What were death rates among Amerindian peoples like in the early colonial period? Why?

36. What was the biggest cause of death amongst slaves?

37. How many slaves were transported in the first 150 years of the Atlantic slave trade? …in the 2^nd 150 years?

38. What did Africans slave traders prefer to receive from the Europeans with whom they traded?

39. What was the cost of an indentured servant, compared with a slave (in the Caribbean)?

40. How did African slave traders get slaves to sell to Europeans?

41. Most of the people traded as part of the Islamic trade in the Sahara were…

42. Who benefited the most from Atlantic trade?

43. What were creoles? Mulattos? Mestizos?

44. Which product was widely traded from the city of Mocha?

45. What was allowed or not allowed under Muslim law with regards to:

a. … women?

b. …slavery?

46. What were the Ottoman’s Christian prisoners-of- war- turned-soldiers called?

47. Which sultan lead the greatest assault on Christian Europe?

48. With whom did the fifteenth-century Ottomans fight a fifty year naval war?

49. What characteristic(s) made the Mughal Empire different from the Ottaman & Safavid Empires?

50. The fall of Constantinople marked the end of what?

51. What was the only religion allowed in Iran after 1502?

52. Which revolt was evidence of the decline of the Ottoman Empire?

53. Who was the world’s leading sugar producer in 1600?

54. What was the weakest part of the Iranian (Safavid) military?

55. What caused inflation in the Ottoman empire in the 16^th century?

56. What caused the decline of the Ottoman Empire? The Mughal?

57. What did the Ottomans call the period between 1718 and 1730? Why?

58. What contributed to the prosperity of the Mughal empire?

59. What was the Forty-seven Ronin incident? What did it illustrate about Japanese society? What was the outcome for the samurai involved?

60. What/who was the Japanese Shogunate?.

61. Where did Russia seek to expand in the 18^th century? Why?

62. What was the “court language” of the Ottomans?

63. Where were Europeans allowed to trade in China? … in Japan?

64. Who did the Japanese invade in the late 16^th century? Why?

65. How did China and Europe view themselves geographically?

66. When and why did the Shogunate order the closing of Japan?

67. Who was the founder of the following empires:

a. …Mughal

b. …Ottoman

c. …Safavid

d. …Qing

68. What was the “Great Northern War” and what was the result?

69. What caused the decline of the Ottoman Empire? The Mughal?

70. What role did the Catholic church have in bringing European culture to Latin America?

71. In the 19^th century, who was the greatest sugar producer in the Atlantic region?

72. Which empire replaced the Ming of China?

73. Who was Tupac Amaru II?

74. Define the following terms: bourgeoisie,

Also, they will mostly be found in the outlines you got in class today... but not all (use the INDEX!)