Exam+Topics

= = = APWH Exam Topics = **A. Unit I - 8000 BCE to 600 CE**
 * 1) Comparisons of Hinduism and Confucianism and philosophical systems including some underlying similarities in cementing a social hierarchy.
 * 2) Role of women in different belief systems -- Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, and Hinduism
 * 3) Understanding of how and why the collapse of empire was more severe in western Europe (Rome) than it was in the eastern Mediterranean (Byzantine Empire) or in China (Han Dynasty)
 * 4) Compare the caste system to other systems of social inequality devised by early and classical civilizations, including slavery
 * 5) Describe interregional trading systems, e.g., the Silk Roads

**B. Unit II - 600 CE to 1450 CE**
 * 1) Japanese and European feudalism
 * 2) Gender systems and changes, such as the impact of Islam
 * 3) Explain and analyze the interactions between Muslims, Jews, and Christians
 * 4) Analyze the Chinese civil service exam system and the rise of meritocracy
 * 5) Compare political and social developments in eastern and western Europe
 * 6) Compare European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world

**C. Unit III - 1450 CE to 1750 CE**
 * 1) Compare colonial administrations of Spanish and English colonies
 * 2) Imperial systems: European monarchy (Britain or France) compared with a land-based Asian empire (China or Mughals)
 * 3) Analyze the development of the Portuguese and Mughal Empires.
 * 4) Analyze the development of the English and Ottoman Empires.
 * 5) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in the Americas
 * 6) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare the Incas and Aztecs in terms of economic exchanges
 * 7) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare Russia's interaction with of two of the following (Ottoman Empire, China, western Europe, and eastern Europe)

**D. Unit IV - 1750 CE to 1914 CE**
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare the causes and early phases of the industrial revolution in western Europe and Japan
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Comparative revolutions (Haitian and French)
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare reaction to foreign domination in: the Ottoman Empire and China
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare reaction to foreign domination in India and Japan
 * 5) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare forms of western intervention in Latin America and in Africa
 * 6) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare nationalism in China and Japan
 * 7) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare nationalism in Egypt and Italy
 * 8) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare nationalism in Africa (Pan Nationalism) and India (Indian Congress Movement)

**E. Unit V - 1914 CE to present**
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and India
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pick three revolutions (Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Iranian) and compare their effects on the roles of women
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare the effects of the World War I on areas outside of Europe
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare the effects of the World War II on areas outside of Europe
 * 5) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compare legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development in two of three areas (Africa, Asia, and Latin America)
 * 6) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Outline and analyze the consequences of warfare since WWI