1. AP World History Review Period 3: Regional and Trans-Regional Interactions c. 600 CE – c. 1450 CE

2. 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks
How did trade networks in the post-Classical Era compare to the Classical Era?
What were the effects of migration in the post-classical era?
How did trade networks as a whole develop in the post-classical era?
What were the biological effects of post-classical trade?

3. 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks
Improved transportation technologies & commercial practices led to increased trade volume, & expanded geog range of trade networks
Movement of peoples caused linguistic & environmental effects

4. 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks
Exchange fostered by intensification of existing, or creation of new networks
Continuity: diffusion of crops & pathogens through E Hemisphere along trade routes.

5. 3.2 Continuity & Innovation of State Forms & their Interactions
How did state formations develop in the post-classical era?
What new forms of governance emerged in the post-classical era?
How & where did governmental diffusion occur in the post-classical era?
How did states in the Americas develop in the post-classical era?
What tech & cultural exchanges did states encourage in the post-classical era?

6. 3.2 Continuity & Innovation of State Forms & their Interactions
Empires collapsed & reconstituted; in some regions new state forms emerged.
Inter-regional contacts & conflicts btwn states/empires encouraged significant technological & cultural transfers
btwn Tang China & Abbasids
across Mongol empires/khanates
during the Crusades

7. 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity & Its Consequences
What were the overall worldwide economic trends in the post-classical era?
What new innovations affected agriculture in the post-classical era?
How did textile and porcelain production develop in the post-classical era?
Why did some post-classical urban areas decline, while others prospered and grew?

8. 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity & Its Consequences
How did social and labor systems develop during the post-classical era?
What pre-existing labor systems continued during the post-classical era?
How did social and gender hierarchies develop in the post-classical era?
What new labor forms developed in the post-classical era?

9. 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity & Its Consequences
Innovations stimulated agric & industrial production
Fate of cities varied greatly
Periods of significant decline/increased urbanization buoyed by rising productivity/expanding trade

10. 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity & Its Consequences
Continuities:
Social structures shaped by class/caste
Patriarchy persisted; however, women exercised more power/influence (Mongols & W Africa, Japan & SE Asia)
Methods of Production
free peasant agriculture
nomadic pastoralism
craft production/guilds
coerced/unfree labor
gov’t imposed labor taxes
military obligations

11. 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity & Its Consequences
Changes in labor management & effects of religious conversion on gender relations & family life
Diffusion of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Neo-Confucianism led to significant changes in gender relations/family structure.
New forms of coerced labor appeared:
serfdom in Europe & Japan
Incan mit’a
Free peasants resisted attempts to raise dues and taxes by staging revolts
Demand for slaves for military & domestic purposes increased

12. Resources for Additional Info
John Green’s “Crash Course” videos.
#13 Islam
#14 The Dark Ages
#15 The Crusades
#16 Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
#17 The Mongols
#20 Russia