Period 5 Themes AP World History Flashcards

13943348368	Humans and the Environment	- industrialization increased human impact on environment - increased levels of pollution - need for natural resources strained the environment - industrialization permitted major earth-shaping engineering projects (Suez Canal, Panama Canal) - industrial era transportation contributed to global migration and distribution of disease (emigrants, tuberculosis, cholera)	0
13943368457	Culture	- "The Enlightenment" prompted rational inquiry - questioning led to massive political changes - public education became normal - new trends of art and literature emerged - affordable innovations involved machine power, fossil-fuel, energy, electricity -globally adopted western culture - Nationalism and racial superiority	1
13943390695	State Building, Expansion and Conflict	- revolution and reform towards democratization - U.S. broke away from England and became super power - Spanish and Portuguese freed - technological, economic and military rise altering balance of global power - modern political and economic ideologies of conservatism, liberalism, nationalism and socialism emerge	2
13943412427	Economic Systems	- industrialization displaced agriculture as most crucial in economy - include steel, electricity, chemical industry, petroleum - capitalism became dominant mode of economic organization - reactions: trade-union activism, Utopian socialism, Marxism - commerce and banking grew in importance	3
13943424222	Social Structures	- revolutions/rebellions increased - aristocracies faded - Bourgeoisie expanded and Proletariat was born - coerced/semi-coerced labor continued - women remain secondary - increased awareness of gender inequality - lower class women in the workplace - Europe, Canada, and U.S. fought for suffrage	4