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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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2847457346Eurasia____ 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.0
2847457347AmericasThe ______ 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.1
2847457348East AsiaThe Yellow region is called ?2
2847457349Southeast AsiaThe Dark Green region is called?3
2847457350South AsiaThe Purple region is called?4
2847457351Middle EastThe Bright Green region is called?5
2847457352Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Dark Brown region is called?6
2847457353North AfricaThe Light Brown region is called?7
2847457354North AmericaThe Dark Orange region is called?8
2847457355OceaniaThe Grey region is called?9

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