1. AP World History Review Period 3: Regional and Trans-Regional Interactions c. 600 CE – c. 1450 CE
Bill Strickland
East Grand Rapids High School
East Grand Rapids, MI

2. KC 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

3. KC 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.

4. KC 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

5. KC 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

6. KC 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

7. KC 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