Periodization AP World History Modern

Question 1

Global power structure is dominated by a bi-polar struggle btwn opposing ideologies represented by the U.S. and the USSR

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1900-present

Question 2

The Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and British form maritime empires in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

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1450-1750

Question 3

The Chinese invade Vietnam, discover champa rice, and experience population increase.

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1200-1450

Question 4

The Mongols create the largest contiguous empire in history. Silk Road trade is revived.

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1200-1450

Question 5

The Russian and Ottoman empires collapse.

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1900-present

Question 6

Women's suffrage movements are successful in Europe and North America.

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1900-present

Question 7

A second wave of imperialism pushes Europeans to colonize Africa and much of Asia.

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1750-1900

Question 8

National identities first form out of common cultural, ethnic, linguistic or religious traits post-revolutions.

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1750-1900

Question 9

Ideologies such as Socialism and Communism first emerge to offer ideological alternatives to industrial capitalism.

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1750-1900

Question 10

Safavid becomes Islamic gunpowder empire using Shi'ism as its source of legitimacy.

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1450-1750

Question 11

Afro-Eurasia experiences a population surge due to the transplanting of American crops.

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1450-1750

Question 12

CIA-based coups in Guatemala and Iran deposed popularly-elected socialist leaders in favor of pro-Western dictators.

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1900-present

Question 13

New racial classifications, such as creole, mestizo, and mulatto, first emerge in Latin America.

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1450-1750

Question 14

The Aztecs build a decentralized state based on tribute and an agricultural system of chinampas

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1200-1450

Question 15

A slave revolt in the Caribbean creates a free Black republic.

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1750-1900

Question 16

Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta travel and interpret the world through their cultural lenses.

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1200-1450

Question 17

European Christianity forms syncretic religious beliefs with indigenous Latin American faiths.

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1450-1750

Question 18

Using new technologies like the magnetic compass, Indian Ocean trade expanded, primarily driven by Muslim merchants.

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1200-1450

Question 19

Groups such as the Marathas in South Asia and the Taiping in East Asia challenge Mughal and Qing imperial rule.

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1750-1900

Question 20

The Abbasid caliphate fragments as new Turkic sultanates emerge.

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1200-1450

Question 21

South Asia is partitioned into two states because of religious nationalism.

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1900-present

Question 22

The Tanzimat Reform in the Ottoman empire provokes conservatives by secularizing education.

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1750-1900

Question 23

A new syncretic religion, Sikhism, emerged in South Asia that blended elements of Islam and Hinduism.

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1450-1750

Question 24

Portugal creates a trading post empire in the Indian Ocean.

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1450-1750

Question 25

Japan is pulled out of its isolation, quickly industrializes and becomes an imperial power.

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1750-1900

Question 26

Pro-democracy movements are successful in Eastern Europe but crushed in East Asia in the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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1900-present

Question 27

Exchange of crops, culture, animals, and pathogens begins between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas

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1450-1750

Question 28

Anti-colonial independence movements succeed, some through armed conflict (Algeria) and others negotiation (India).

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1900-present

Question 29

Enlightenment ideas about liberty lead to independence and revolutions in the Americas and Europe.

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1750-1900

Question 30

The global silver trade emerges.

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1450-1750

Periodization AP World History Modern

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Periodization AP World History Modern

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