Amsco ap world history Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Amsco AP World History 1.1Song Dynasty - correct answers Replaced the Tang in 960 and ruled for three centuries with a prosperous reign under which the arts flourished. Bureaucracy - correct answers China's strength was partially the result of its imperial bureaucracy through which elected officials carried out the empire's policies. Metiocracy and the Civil Service Exam - correct answers One of the Song Dynasties' great achievements was the expansion of educational opportunities as som...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 1 (2023/2024) Already Passed Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) The Chinese dynasty that placed much more emphasis on civil administration, industry, education, and arts other than military. Imperial Bureaucracy Division of an empire into organized provinces to make it easier to control Meritocracy a system in which promotion is based on individual ability or achievement Grand Canal The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers....

Amsco AP World History Modern Lesson 1.1East Asia - correct answers China, Japan, Korea South Asia - correct answers India Southeast Asia - correct answers Vietnam Song Dynasty - correct answers Most innovative; made the imperial bureaucracy Coal - correct answers made China successful Protoindustrialization - correct answers industrialization before the Industrial Revolution Artisans - correct answers skilled craftspeople Scholar Gentry - correct answers The highest...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY MODERN, Topic 5.10What resulted in a leadership role in industrialization? - correct answers Access to lots of natural resources, trans-oceanic trade routes & capital combined with an increasing population Scientific Revolution - correct answers Influenced by scientific knowledge transferred from the Islamic World to the West; helped bring about inventions that'd lead to the establishment of the factory system & mass production What did automation cause? - correct a...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 4Primogeniture Laws - correct answers English laws that only led eldest sons inherit land, leading younger sons to search for money via things like joint-stock companies. Omani-European Rivalry - correct answers Portuguese vs the Omani over the Muslim controlled Indian ocean trade Cartography - correct answers The science of making maps Astronomical Chart - correct answers a guide to the stars to help navigation Maritime Empires - correct answers e...

AMSCO AP World History Unit 6.6 and 6.7Colonial Service - correct answers Managers for plantations or other colonial enterprises. Taiping Rebellion - correct answers Revolt against Qing Dynasty brought poverty and disorder and led to people leaving China. Indentured Servants - correct answers People who worked for a set number of years before being freed. Contract Laborers - correct answers Unskilled workers exploited as substitutes for slave labor often for subsistence wages. Many Chin...

John Locke 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. Social Contract A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules. Tabula Rasa blank slate philosophes Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time. Baron Montesquieu Enlightenment thinker who s...

AMSCO AP World History Modernmagnetic compass - correct answers Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north rudder - correct answers the hinged plate at the back and bottom of a boat, used for steering junk - correct answers A very large flat bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel. Mongol Empire - correct answers an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY MODERN, Topic 4.2Christopher Columbus - correct answers Gained the Spanish monarchs' - Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand - support in 1492 for voyages across the Atlantic; his voyages helped increase the interest in discovery What did conquest bring? - correct answers They brought wealth to states thru tax collection & new trading opportunities; it also brought great material wealth, especially silver, to European states What stoked expansion? - correct answers Rivalr...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.8What technology made ocean travel easier? - correct answers Astronomical charts, the astrolabe, compass, magnetic compass, lateen sail, carrack, caravel, fluyt Columbian Exchange - correct answers A biological exchange of plants, animals, people, & diseases between the East & West Hemispheres What did the Columbian Exchange cause? - correct answers The development of the Atlantic System (a transoceanic trading network that forever changed where food...