AP World History Period 2: 600 BCE to 600 CE
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| 4285638667 | Climate and location of routes, typical trade goods, and the ethnicity of the people involved. | What factors shaped the features of early trade routes in the eastern hemisphere? | 0 | |
| 4285638668 | 1. Eurasian Silk Roads 2. Trans-Saharan caravan routes 3. Indian Ocean sea lanes 4. Mediterranean sea lanes | What are the 4 most significant trade routes of the period between 600BCE and 600CE? | 1 | |
| 4285638669 | Yokes, saddles, and stirrups permitted the use of domesticated pack animals. | What new technologies facilitated long-distance communication and exchange between 600BCE and 600CE? | 2 | |
| 4285638670 | Innovations in maritime technology and advanced knowledge of monsoon winds. Ex. Lateen sail and dhow ships. | What factors stimulated early exchanges along maritime routes from East Africa to East Asia? | 3 | |
| 4285638671 | Trade goods, people, technology, religious and cultural beliefs, food crops, domesticated animals, and disease pathogens. | What are the various forms of exchanges that took place between 600BCE and 600CE? | 4 | |
| 4285638672 | Rice and cotton. | What crops spread from South Asia to the Middle East? | 5 | |
| 4285638673 | Changed in farming and irrigation techniques. | What changes did the spread of crops encourage? | 6 | |
| 4285638674 | Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. | What religious and cultural traditions were transformed as they spread? | 7 | |
| 4285638675 | Imposing political unity. | The number and size of key states and empires grew dramatically by: | 8 | |
| 4285638676 | Southwest Asia: Persian Empire East Asia: Qin and Han Empires South Asia: Mauryan and Gupta Empires Mediterranean: Phoenecia, Greek City-states, Hellenistic and Roman empires Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan, Maya Andean South America: Moche | What are the 6 key states/empires and their locations? | 9 | |
| 4285638677 | Administrative institutions | What did the rulers of empires create to organize their subjects? | 10 | |
| 4285638678 | 1. Centralized government 2. Elaborate legal systems & bureaucracies | Two important elements of imperial administrations are: | 11 | |
| 4285638679 | China, Persia, Rome, & South Asia | What regions hosted the most famous administrative institutions? | 12 | |
| 4285638680 | 1. Diplomacy 2. Developing supply lines 3. Building fortifications 4. Defensive walls and roads 5. Drawing new groups of military officers and soldiers from the local populations or conquered peoples | Name 5 ways in which imperial governments projected military power over large areas. | 13 | |
| 4285638681 | 1. Centers of trade 2. Public performance of religious rituals 3. Political administration for states and empires | What function did cities play in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas? | 14 | |
| 4285638682 | Rome & Teotihuacan | Name 2 important early imperial cities. | 15 | |
| 4285638683 | Hierarchies / Included cultivators, laborers, slaves, artisans, merchants, elites, or caste groups | What did the social structures of early empires display? What groups were typically included? | 16 | |
| 4285638684 | Relied on a range of methods such as peasant communities and slavery. | How did imperial societies maintain food production? | 17 | |
| 4285638685 | To provide rewards for the loyalty of elites. | An important reason to produce surplus in imperial societies was: | 18 | |
| 4285638686 | Patriarchy | ___________ continued to shape gender and family relations in imperial societies. | 19 | |
| 4285638687 | Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta | What specific empires created difficulties they could not manage? | 20 | |
| 4285638688 | Political, cultural, and administrative | What types of difficulties did Empires create that often led to their collapse/decline/transformation? | 21 | |
| 4285638689 | Successive mobilization of resources led to environmental damage which resulted in social tensions and economic difficulties by concentrating too much wealth in the hands of elites. | How did empire create environmental issues and what did these issues lead to? | 22 | |
| 4285638690 | Issues along the frontier such as threat of invasions. | What sorts of external problems did empires face? | 23 | |
| 4285638691 | Rome: Problems with northern and eastern neighbors Gupta: White Huns | What are 2 important examples of empires' external problem? | 24 | |
| 4285638692 | Hebrew (Scriptures) | The codification of the ________ scriptures further associated Judaism with monotheism. | 25 | |
| 4285638693 | Mesopotamia | The Hebrew scriptures influenced the cultural and legal traditions of what area? | 26 | |
| 4285638694 | Conquest of Jewish states by Assyria, Babylonia, and Rome. | What trend influenced the Jewish diasporic communities in the Middle East? Which peoples were involved? | 27 | |
| 4285638695 | Vedic, Hinduism | Sanskrit scriptures formed the basis of the __________ religions, which later became known as __________. | 28 | |
| 4285638696 | Core beliefs: desire, suffering, and the search for enlightenment. Scriptures: Sutras & other misc. scriptures. | What core beliefs did Buddhism preach? What scriptures were they recorded in? | 29 | |
| 4285638697 | The Vedic beliefs and rituals dominant in South Asia. | Buddhism was, in part, a reaction to ____________. | 30 | |
| 4285638698 | Asoka / Mauryan Empire / efforts of missionaries and merchants and the establishment of educational institutions. | Emperor _______________ of _____________ supported the spread of Buddhism. Buddhism was also spread through ___________________________. | 31 | |
| 4285638699 | Confucianism | The philosophical belief system of ___________ came out of China. | 32 | |
| 4285638700 | to promote social harmony by outlining proper rituals and social relationships. | Confucianism's main goal was: | 33 | |
| 4285638701 | Balance between humans and nature. | What are the core beliefs of Daoism? | 34 | |
| 4285638702 | It influenced medical theories and practices, pottery, metallurgy, and architecture. | What role did Daoism play in the development of Chinese culture? | 35 | |
| 4285638703 | Judaism | Christianity drew on which religious tradition? | 36 | |
| 4285638704 | Roman & Hellenistic | Initially, Christianity rejected _______________ influences. | 37 | |
| 4285638705 | Efforts of missionaries and merchants through many parts of Afro-Eurasia / Emporer Constantine | Christianity initially spread through ____________, and later through the support of ____________________. | 38 | |
| 4285638706 | Logic, empirical observations, and the nature of political power and hierarchy. | What are the cored ideas of Greco-Roman philosophy/science? | 39 | |
| 4285638707 | Affected gender roles: Judaism & Christianity: encouraged monastic life Confucianism: emphasized filial piety | What role did belief systems play in social systems? | 40 | |
| 4285638708 | Shamanism/Animism persisted because of their daily reliance on the natural world. | What belief systems continued alongside the codified, written belief systems? Why did these persist outside of core civilizations? | 41 | |
| 4285638709 | Literature, drama, architecture, and sculpture. / Ex. Greek plays, Indian epics | Which major art forms were influenced by belief systems? Which important examples are provided in the Key Concept outline? | 42 |
