Amsco ap world Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 9radio - correct answers a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves Internet - correct answers A global network connecting millions of computers, making it possible to exchange information. Green Revolution - correct answers Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers. Crossbreeding - correct answers when members of different species breed together. genetic engineering - co...

Amsco AP World History Modern Lesson 1.2 After Muhammad's death in 632 - correct answers Islam spread rapidly outward from Arabia and their reach spread from India to Spain Most Islamic leaders showed tolerance to - correct answers Christians, Jews, and others who believed in a single god and did good works Challenges the Abbasid Empire faced - correct answers They had conflicts with nomadic groups in Central Asia and confronted European invaders Egyptian Mamluks - correct answers Ara...

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...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY MODERN, Topic 4.4Indentured Servitude - correct answers Arrangements thru which servants were contracted to work for a specified period of years in exchange for passage Chattel Slavery - correct answers System in which individuals are considered property to be bought & sold Asante Empire & the Kingdom of Congo - correct answers The expansion of maritime trading networks supported their growth like some other African states 1498 Vasco de Gama - correct answers Inva...

AMSCO AP World 8.2 The Cold War United Nations (UN) - correct answers an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security Iron Curtain - correct answers Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. satellite countries - correct answers small states that are economically or politically dependent on a larger, more powerful state containment - correct answers American policy ...

AMSCO AP WORLD UNIT 1Based on this passage, which of the statements concerning the trading city of Hangzhou is most accurate? - correct answers Hangzhou was a vital trading city because it had foreign merchandise and was also accessible by the Grand Canal for internal trade. What development, which began before the passage above was written, allowed Europeans to obtain the products of East Asia? - correct answers New maritime technology allowed for ocean-going trips to establish trade routes ...

AMSCO AP World History Chapter 1 Latest 2023 Graded A Overfarming To farm so much that land looses its fertility Overgrazing The continual eating of grasses or their roots, without allowing them to regrow Artifacts objects made and used by early humans, usually dug up by archaeologists Paleolithic Period The Early Years of human history, ended around 8000 B.C.E., also call the "Stone Age" Neolithic Revolution A set of dramatic changes in how people lived based on the development of agricul...

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...

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 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...