🌍AP World History: Modern
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2033 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your AP World History: Modern exam
Most-studied AP World History: Modern key terms
The AP World History: Modern terms students look up most, with a definition for each.
- Champa Rice
- Delhi Sultanate
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Song Dynasty
- Banking Houses
- Astrolabe
- Feudalism
- Ibn Battuta
- Neo-Confucianism
- Samarkand
- Marco Polo
- Caravanserai
- Zheng He
- Ottoman Empire
- Swahili City-states
- Monsoon Winds
- Great Zimbabwe
- Grand Canal
- Bhakti Movement
- Lateen Sail
- Indian Ocean Trade
- Crusades
- Sufism
- Buddhism
- House of Wisdom
- Mansa Musa
- Diasporic Communities
- Srivijaya Empire
- Khanates
- Safavid Empire
- Hausa Kingdoms
- Sultanate of Malacca
- Kashgar
- Hinduism
- Genghis Khan
- Pax Mongolica
- Camel Saddles
- Mughal Empire
- Caste System
- Devshirme
- Mali Empire
- Bills of Exchange
- Mercantilism
- Ming Dynasty
- Black Death
- Tribute System
- Tax Farming
- Seljuk Empire
- Inca Empire
- Compass
- Qing Dynasty
- Caravel
- Caravans
- Khmer Empire
- Dhows
- manorial system
- Bubonic Plague
- Judaism
- Serfdom
- Islam
- Timbuktu
- Protestant Reformation
- Encomienda System
- Margery Kempe
- Hacienda System
- Gunpowder Empires
- Government bureaucracy
- Chinampas
- Renaissance
- Uyghur script
- Diaspora
- Incan Mit'a System
- Byzantine Empire
- Ethiopia
- Salaried Samurai in Japan
- Sunni-Shia Split
- Seljuk Turks
- Songhai Empire
- Aztec Empire
- Golden Horde
- filial piety
- Trading Post Empires
- Sikhism
- Mita
- Joint-stock companies
- Mandate of Heaven
- Angkor Wat
- Safavid-Mughal conflict
- Hanseatic League
- Bantu People
- Yuan Dynasty
- Palace of Versailles
- Astronomical Charts
- Centralized Government
- Maya city-states
- Mongols
- Vijayanagara Empire
- Centralized Bureaucracy
- State of Gujarat
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Casta system
- Christianity
- Taj Mahal
- Civil Service Exam
- paper money
- City-States
- Russian Empire
- Trade Networks
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Kublai Khan
- Magna Carta
- MANIA
- Patriarchy
- Mississippian culture
- Peter the Great
- Moroccan conflict with the Songhai Empire
- Mexica
- Sufis
- Manchu
- Specialization of Labor
- HIPP Analysis Strategy
- Syncretic Religions
- Constantinople
- Buddhist monasticism
- Emperor Akbar
- Ivan IV
- Daoist religion
- Zamindars
- Spread of Islam
- Peasant and artisan labor
- Zamindars in the Mughal Empire
- Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt
- Gunpowder Weapons
- Shah Abbas I
- Martin Luther
- Proletariat
- Afro-Eurasia
- Divine Right
- Christopher Columbus
- Romanov Dynasty
- Ghana
- Fluyt
- Porcelain
- Catholic Counter-Reformation
- Quipu
- Little Ice Age
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Coerced Labor
- Three-field system
- Forbidden City
- Serfs
- Timur
- Hernán Cortés
- Swahili Coast
- Tenochtitlán
- Manchu Empire
- Song China
- Swahili Coast City-States
- Islamic Law
- Bushido
- Mayan civilization
- Forms of Credit
- Roman Catholic Church
- Boyar Class
- Shogun
- Indian Ocean trading network
- Samurai
- Inca
- Reconquista
- Indentured Servitude
- Vasco da Gama
- Jizya
- Mamluk Empire
- Confucian principles
- Cossack revolts
- Deism
- human sacrifice
- Sunni Islam
- dynastic cycle
- Muhammad
- Emperor Qianlong
- Creoles
- Estates General
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
- Akbar the Great
- monasticism
- Mughals
- commercial practices
- Mehmed II
- Metacom’s War
- Peninsulares
- Printing Press
- Han Dynasty
- Hundred Years' War
- Civilization
- Carrack
- Sinhala dynasties
- Louis XIV
- Ninety-Five Theses
- Daimyo
- Venice
- Chattel Slavery
- Capitalism
- Stalin's Five-Year Plan
- Baghdad
- Triangular Trade
- Shia Islam
- Pilgrimage to Mecca
- Commercial Revolution
- Cultural diffusion
- Sugar
- Agricultural Revolution
- Zen Buddhism
- Maratha conflict with Mughals
- Tang Dynasty
- Scientific Revolution
- Ottoman Millet System
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Feudal System
- Pueblo Revolt
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Consolidate Power
- Interregional Trade
- Tomatoes
- Maroons
- Money Economies
- Inquisition
- Civil Service Exams
- Social Hierarchy
- Shi'a
- Mesoamerica
- Monarchy
- Tokugawa Japan
- Ottoman Empire slave soldiers
- Luxury Goods
Key Terms by Unit
1.1 East Asia from 1200-1450
1.2 Dar al-Islam from 1200-1450
1.3 South and Southeast Asia from 1200-1450
1.4 State Building in the Americas
1.5 State Building in Africa
1.6 Europe from 1200 to 1450
1.7 Comparisons from 1200-1450
2.1 The Silk Roads
2.2 The Mongol Empire
2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean
2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity
2.7 Comparison of Economic Exchange
3.1 Empires Expand
3.2 Empires: Administration
3.3 Belief Systems of Land-Based Empires
3.4 Comparison in Land-Based Empires
4.1 Technological Innovations from 1450 to 1750
4.2 Causes of Exploration from 1450-1750
4.3 Columbian Exchange
4.4 Maritime Empires Established
4.5 Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed
4.6 State Power from 1450 to 1750
4.7 Changing Social Hierarchies from 1450 to 1750
4.8 Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750
5.1 The Enlightenment
5.2 Nationalism & Revolutions
5.3 Industrial Revolution Begins
5.4 Industrialization Spreads
5.5 Technology in the Industrial Age
5.6 Government & Industrialization, 1750 to 1900
5.7 Economic Developments, 1750 to 1900
5.8 Reactions to Industrialization, 1750 to 1900
5.9 Society and the Industrial Age
5.10 Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age
6.1 Rationales for Imperialism, 1750 to 1900
6.2 State Expansion, 1750 to 1900
6.3 Indigenous Responses to Imperialism, 1750 to 1900
6.4 Global Economic Development, 1750 to 1900
6.5 Economic Imperialism, 1750 to 1900
6.6 Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
6.7 Effects of Migration, 1750 to 1900
6.8 Causation in the Imperial Age
7.1 Shifting Power After 1900
7.2 Causes of World War I
7.3 Conducting World War I
7.4 The Economy in the Interwar Period
7.5 Unresolved Tensions After World War I
7.6 Causes of World War II
7.7 Conducting World War II
7.8 Mass Atrocities After 1900
7.9 Causation in Global Conflict
8.1 Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization
8.2 The Cold War
8.3 Effects of the Cold War
8.4 Spread of Communism After 1900
8.5 Decolonization After 1900
8.6 Newly Independent States After 1900
8.7 Global Resistance to the Established Order in the 20th Century
8.8 End of the Cold War
8.9 Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization
9.1 Advances in Technology and Exchange after 1900
9.2 Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease
9.3 Debates about the Environment after 1900
9.4 Economics in the Global Age
9.5 Calls for Reform and Responses after 1900
9.6 Globalized Culture after 1900
9.7 Resistance to Globalization After 1900
9.8 Institutions Developing in a Globalized World
9.9 Continuity and Change in a Globalized World
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