Ap World History Key Concepts Narrative Essay – Flashcards

-Archaeologists have found evidence that these people travelled around in small, foraging bands that were basically egalitarian. Because they had no consistently reliable source of food, they were almost always on the move.

- The practice of agriculture transformed the social and economic characteristics of human societies. It also changed the nature of the crops that were farmed.

- Trade between these people spread ideas, technologies and even diseases. And as the needs of urban centers grew, the struggle for limited resources often led them to military conflict. And also, develop states, or governments, organized by bureaucracies and legitimized often by religious belief.

- Rulers appealed to these belief systems to justify their actions; common ethical and ceremonial traditions gave cohesion to society.Also as, beliefs were rarely homogeneous and deviations, reform movements, and differing interpretations could challenge the social order.

- As empires acquired massive wealth, the unequal distribution of this wealth across social classes placed enormous pressure on the political and social order. Eventually, all of the classical civilizations could not deal with the problems created by their own internal or external crises.

- Luxury goods and raw materials traveled in caravans and on boats to distant markets. Traveling with them were belief systems, ideas, technology, culture and diseases.

Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade, and expanded the geographic range of existing and newly-active trade networks. https://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com/Key+Concept+3.1

Empires collapsed and were reconstituted; in some regions new state forms emerged. Following the collapse of empires, most reconstituted governments, including the Byzantine Empire and the Chinese dynasties — Sui, Tang, and Song — combined traditional sources of power and legitimacy with innovations better suited to the current circumstances. Source: https://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com/Key+Concept+3.2

Innovations stimulated agricultural and industrial production in many regions. Agricultural production increased significantly due to technological innovations. source: https://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com/Key+Concept+3.3

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Industrialization fundamentally altered the production of goods around the world. It not only changed how goods were produced and consumed, as well as what was considered a "good," but it also had far-reaching effects on the global economy, social relations, and culture.

Industrializing powers established transoceanic empires.II. Imperialism influenced state formation and contraction around the world.III. New racial ideologies, especially Social Darwinism, facilitated and justified imperialism.

The rise and diffusion of Enlightenment thought that questioned established traditions in all areas of life often preceded the revolutions and rebellions against existing governments.II. Beginning in the eighteenth century, peoples around the world developed a new sense of commonality based on language, religion, social customs and territory. These newly imagined national communities linked this identity with the borders of the state, while governments used this idea to unite diverse populations.III. Increasing discontent with imperial rule propelled reformist and revolutionary movements

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rapid scientific advances. New communication & transportation eliminated geographic distance. New scientific paradigms/ understandings of the world.

Europe dominated c.1900 but empires decline. New political form increase by c.2000. Older land-based empires collapsed. Colonies achieved independence through either negotiation or armed struggle.

Communist states directed the economy & oversaw development of industry. US & W. Europe states played minimal role until Great Depression, when they took more active role.