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AP World History Geography Flashcards

The AP world essay questions will ask you to compare and contrast regions and to analyze regional changes and continuities over time. If AP asks you to analyze East Asia, discussing India (South Asia) would be a "0".

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5545712494AP Regional Geography0
5545712495Afroeurasiathe landmass made up of Africa and Eurasia together. This geographical expression serves as a helpful tool in discussing large-scale historical developments that cut across the traditionally-defined continental divisions of Africa, Asia, and Europe.1
5545712496Eurasia____ is the landmass made up of Asia & Europe. The idea that Europe and Asia are separate continents goes back many centuries, but scholars who accept the definition of a continent as "a large landmass surrounded, or nearly surrounded, by water" know that the definition applies to neither Europe nor Asia because these two landmasses are conjoined. Most world historians define Europe as a subcontinent of Eurasia.2
5545712497AmericasThe ______ are made up of the continents of North America and South America, including neighboring islands, notably the islands of the Caribbean Sea. Until the twentieth century, most geography books classified North and South America together as a single continent, labeling them the "New World" ("new" to Europeans beginning in the late fifteenth century CE) in contradistinction to the "Old World," that is Afroeurasia.3
5545712498East AsiaThe Yellow region is called ?4
5545712499South East AsiaThe Dark Green region is called?5
5545712500South AsiaThe Purple region is called?6
5545712501Middle EastThe Bright Green region is called?7
5545712502Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Dark Brown region is called?8
5545712503North AfricaThe Light Brown region is called?9
5545712504North AmericaThe Dark Orange region is called?10
5545712505OceaniaThe Grey region is called?11
5545712506Mercator Map v. Peters Projection12
5545712507Mercator Mapshows directions accurately; sizes and distances are distorted13
5545712508Peters Projectiona cylindrical map projection that attempts to retain the accurate sizes of all the world's landmasses14

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