1. AP World History Key Terms and Concepts according to Crash Course

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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