AP World History: The Modern Era
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Key ideas in AP World History: The Modern Era
- Merchants acted as cultural ambassadors
- Religious conversion often followed trade hubs
- Technological secrets traveled along the same paths as physical goods
- The Mongol Empire provided unified political control over the Silk Road
- Pax Mongolica reduced the threat of bandits and local tolls
- Increased safety allowed for longer, more frequent merchant journeys
- The cultural and religious spread along trade routes
- The impact of the Mongol Empire on trade safety
- The magnetic compass allowed for navigation in open water
- Lateen sails allowed ships to sail into the wind (tacking)
- Knowledge of Monsoon winds was essential for timing voyages
- How maritime technology enabled Indian Ocean trade
- The plague originated in Central/East Asia
- Trade ships and caravans carried infected fleas and rats
- Densely populated trade hubs were the first to be hit by the pandemic
- The progression of the Black Death via trade networks
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Where was a person in the 13th century most likely to encounter a new religion for the first time?
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Where AP World History: The Modern Era takes you
Travel through the last 800 years of human history to see how trade, empires, and revolutions connected the globe. Learn the major patterns that shaped our modern world from the Silk Road to the digital age.
- 1
The Global Tapestry and Trade
- Networks of Exchange
- Power and Belief (1200-1450)
- 2
Empires and Oceans
- The Rise of Gunpowder Empires
- The Great Atlantic Shift
- 3
Revolutions and Industry
- Enlightenment and Political Change
- The Industrial Engine
- 4
The Global Century
- Global Conflict and Ideology
- The Modern Connected World
4 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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