AP World History Key Terms and Concepts according to Crash Course

Period 1: up to 600 BCE Technological and Environmental Transformations Hunting-Foraging Bands Neolithic Revolutions River-Valley Civilizations Pastoralism Urbanization Early Empires Animism, Polytheism, Monotheism

Period 2: 600 BCE to 600 CE Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies Classical Era Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Christianity Han Empire Mandate of Heaven Chinese Examination System Mediterranean Civilization Hellenism Maurya/Gupta Empires Bantu Migrations Silk Roads Indian Ocean Trade Network Fall of Classical Empires

Period 3: 600 CE to 1450 Regional and Transregional Interactions Trans-Sahara Trade Islam Caliphate Crusades Dar-al Islam Diffusion of Religions Byzantine Empire Black Death Tang and Song Dynasties Sinification Mongols Zheng He (Ming) Mayan States Coerced Labor Feudalism

Period 4: 1450 to 1750 Global Interactions Inca Empire European Exploration Columbian Exchange Atlantic World Mercantilism Atlantic Slave Trade Encomienda System Mughal Empire Syncretism in Religions Printing Press Ottoman Empire

Period 5: 1750 to 1900 Industrialization and Global Integration Industrialization Enlightenment Capitalism Marxism Nationalism Age of Revolutions Imperialism Social Darwinism Resistance to Western Hegemony Meiji Restoration Nineteenth-Century Migrations Indentured Servitude Open Door Policy Second Industrial Revolution

Period 6: 1900 to present Accelerating Global Change and Realignments WWI and WWII The Great Depression Authoritarianism Communism Decolonization Partition Cold War Multinational or Transnational Corporation Pacific Rim Chinese Revolutions Apartheid Feminism Globalization Historiography Periodization