Review: AP World History Exam 1450-1750

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Review AP World History Exam 1450-1750
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Periodization

• 1453 Constantinople falls to the Ottomans
• Portuguese start exploring
• Colonies in the New World
• Coercive Labor Systems
• Ming closes doors and end expeditions in 1433
• Turks take over where Mongols left off in
  Russia and Southwest Asia
• 1750, Revolutions and Enlightenment
• End of Gunpowder Empires
• Beginning of Western Dominance

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Global interactions, Trade, and Technology

• Linking the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
• New sea lanes established with exploration
• First encounters with Western Hemisphere
• Biological (Columbian) Exchange plants,
  animals, disease, human community
• Global economy agricultural goods, manufactured
  goods, luxury items reach distant lands

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Global interactions, Trade, and Technology

• Technology gunpowder, printing and maritime
• Christianity and Islam spread
• Indigenous people suffer and are exploited
  (Potosi)
• Europeans flourish colonies, open markets
• Africa benefited from crops but devastated by
  slave trade

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Global interactions, Trade, and Technology

• Colonies in the Americas, trading posts in Africa
  and Asia
• Conquered Philippines and Indonesia but not
  China, India, Southwest Asia or Japan
• Importance of European explorations

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Major Empires Aztec, Ottoman, Inca, Ming, Qing
(Manchu) Portugal, Spain, Russia, France,
England, Mongol, Tokugawa, Mughal and Songhay

• SNAPSHOT on Absolutism and Gunpowder
• Use France as a model, but know how England is
  different
• Comparison of Ottomans France
• Mongols transform to other groups

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Major Empires Aztec, Ottoman, Inca, Ming, Qing
(Manchu) Portugal, Spain, Russia, France,
England, Mongol, Tokugawa, Mughal and Songhay

• Notes on Absolutism and Gunpowder Empires
  Ottoman, Mughal, China, Japan
• Gender women gaining political roles among the
  elite classes (not China/Japan) Coercive Labor
  Systems Introduced in Columbian Exchange,
  Readings on Spanish Labor Systems, ex. Potosi

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Cultural and Intellectual Development

• Exchange of arts
• Chinese,
• Mughal
• Ottoman contributions

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Mughal
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Syncretic Art
A Royal Mughal Court
Thirst in night
Love on a Boat at Night
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Wang Yuanqi
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Ottoman Art

• Calligraphy

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Carpets
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Tile and mosaic work
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Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul
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Sultan Ahmet Mosque in Istanbul
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Inside the Blue Mosque Ahmediye Cami
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Diverse Interpretations

• The West has long term Environmental advantages
  like the horse, metallurgy, immunity to disease,
  supportive governments funding voyages, desire
  for wealth and trade, desire to convert to
  Christianity, naval technology, belief that
  change is good, competition is good and property
  can be owned.