APWH+Review+Topics

__**A. 8000 BCE - 600 CE**__
 * 1) Comparisons between Hinduism, Confucianism as religious and philosophical systems including some similarities in cementing a social hierarchy
 * 2) Compare the role of women in different belief systems - Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Judaism, and Hinduism
 * 3) Understanding how and why the collapse of empire was more severe in western Europe (Rome) than it was in the eastern Mediterranean (Byzantine) or in China (Han)
 * 4) Compare the caste system to other systems of social inequality devised by early and classical civilizations including slavery
 * 5) Compare the development of traditions, institutions and technologies in the major civilizations of the east (China, India) and the west (Greece, Rome)
 * 6) Describe interregional trading systems such as the Silk Roads and Indian Ocean for this time period: who traded, what traded, when, where, why, how, etc...
 * 7) Describe the political structures of the major early civilizations, Shang, Qin, Zhou, India (Indus Valley Civ.), Egypt
 * 8) Describe the political structures of the major early civilizations, Greece and Rome
 * 9) Describe the transition from nomadic lifestyle to a sedentary one. Consider economic, political, social and religious issues at play.

__**B. 600 CE - 1450**__
 * 1) Compare and contrast Christianity and Islam
 * 2) Compare Japanese and European feudalism
 * 3) Compare developments in political and social institutions in both eastern and western Europe
 * 4) Compare European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world
 * 5) Inca and Aztec Empire (political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, geography)
 * 6) Compare the role and function of cities and trade in major societies - Indian Ocean, China, Europe
 * 7) Importance of Tang and Song economies and early Ming initiatives
 * 8) Gender relations, changes and differences across major societies: Europe, Dar al-Islam and China
 * 9) Analyze nomadic empires (political, economic, social, military, cultural)

__**C. 1450 - 1750**__
 * 1) Compare colonial administrations
 * 2) Compare coercive labor systems: slavery and other labor systems in the Americas
 * 3) Analyze the development of empire (i.e. general empire building in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas)
 * 4) Analyze imperial systems: a European sea-based empire compared with land based Asian empire
 * 5) Impact of Columbian Exchange on Atlantic world (Europe, African and Americas)
 * 6) Compare Russia's interaction with two of the following: Ottoman Empire, China, and eastern Europe
 * 7) Cultural and intellectual developments in Europe: Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment
 * 8) Cultural and intellectual developments in China and Japan: Ming, Qing and Tokugawa Shogunate
 * 9) Analyze the relationship in Europe between the papacy, absolute monarchs and enlightened ideas.

__**D. 1750 - 1900**__
 * 1) Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial Revolution in western Europe and Japan
 * 2) Compare revolutions: French, Haitian, American
 * 3) Compare reaction to foreign interference in the Ottoman Empire, and China
 * 4) Compare reaction to foreign interference in Japan and India
 * 5) Describe social problems faced by working class in western Europe, Russia and China
 * 6) Compare Marxism and Capitalism and its influences on society
 * 7) Describe and explain the causes for the rise of nationalism in Europe and the Middle East
 * 8) Compare state building and pushes for independence in the New World, United States and Mexico
 * 9) Analyze the legacies of imperialism with respect to economic, social and cultural changes outside of Europe

__**E. 1900 - present**__
 * 1) Compare patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and India
 * 2) Compare the effects of WWI on areas outside of Europe
 * 3) Compare the effects of WWII on areas outside of Europe
 * 4) Analyze the global effects of the Western consumer society on two areas outside of Europe
 * 5) Compare legacies of colonialism and patters of economic development in two of three areas (Africa, Asia and Latin America)
 * 6) Compare major forms of twentieth century warfare
 * 7) The notion of "the West" and "the East" in the Cold War
 * 8) Analyze new patterns of nationalism (fascism, racism, genocide, breakup of Soviet Union)
 * 9) Describe social reform and revolution (changing gender roles, family structures, rise of feminism, and internation Marxism)