AP World History Exam Study Guide
2024/2025 Exam All Answers and
Illustrations Given
Civilization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An ambiguous term often used to denote more
complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any
group of people sharing a set of cultural traits.
Foragers - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔People who support themselves by hunting wild
animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects.
Cuneiform - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A system of writing in which wedge-shaped
symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and
was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to
represent other languages of western Asia. Because so many symbols had
to be learned, literacy was confined to a relatively small group of
administrators and scribes.
History - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The study of past events and changes in the
development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices.
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,City-state - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A small independent state consisting of an
urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic
political form in early Mesopotamia, classical Greece, Phoenicia, and early
Italy.
Culture - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Socially transmitted patterns of action and
expression. Material _____ refers to physical objects, such as dwellings,
clothing, tools, and crafts. _____ also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and
technology.
Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution-When? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
change from food gathering to food production that occurred between 8000
and 2000 B.C.E., independently in various parts of the world. This also
includes the domestication of plants and animals.
Paleolithic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The period of the Stone Age associated with
the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Neolithic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The period of the Stone Age associated with the
ancient Agricultural Revolution (s). It follows the Paleolithic period.
Mohenjo-Darro - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Largest of the cities of the Indus Valley
civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus
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,River in contemporary Pakistan. Little is known about the political
institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large scale of construction
at Mohenjo-Daro, the orderly grid for streets, and the standardization of
building materials are evidence of central planning.
Name the 4 river valleys where civilization began. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1)
Mesopotamia, 2) Egypt, 3) Pakistan, 4) northern China
What are the characteristics of civilization? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Cities that
serve as administrative centers, 2) a political system based on control of
defined territory, 3) specialization, 4) status based on wealth, 5)
monumental buildings, 6) a writing system, 7) long distance trade, and 8)
major advancements in science and art.
Loess - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. It
constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China.
Because _____ soil is not compacted, it can be worked with a simple
digging stick, but it leaves the region vulnerable to devastating
earthquakes.
Daoism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Chinese school of thought, originating in the
Warring States Period with Laozi. Daoism offered an alternative to the
Confucian emphasis on hierarchy and duty. Daoists believe that the world
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, is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They
accept the world as they find it, avoid futile struggles, and deviate as little
as possible from the Dao, or "path" of nature.
Legalism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An authoritarian political philosophy that came to
be called ____. These thinkers believe human nature is essentially wicked
and that people behave in an orderly fashion only if compelled by strict
laws and harsh punishments.
Confucius - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Western name for the Chinese philosopher
Konzi (551-479 B.C.E.). His doctrine of duty and public service had a great
influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct
for government officials.
Mandate of Heaven - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Chinese religious and political
ideology developed by the Zhou, according to which it was the prerogative
of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the rule of China and to take
away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself justly and in the best
interests of his subjects.
Shang - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The dominant people in the earliest Chinese
dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1045 B.C.E.).
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2024/2025 Exam All Answers and
Illustrations Given
Civilization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An ambiguous term often used to denote more
complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any
group of people sharing a set of cultural traits.
Foragers - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔People who support themselves by hunting wild
animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects.
Cuneiform - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A system of writing in which wedge-shaped
symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and
was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to
represent other languages of western Asia. Because so many symbols had
to be learned, literacy was confined to a relatively small group of
administrators and scribes.
History - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The study of past events and changes in the
development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices.
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,City-state - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A small independent state consisting of an
urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic
political form in early Mesopotamia, classical Greece, Phoenicia, and early
Italy.
Culture - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Socially transmitted patterns of action and
expression. Material _____ refers to physical objects, such as dwellings,
clothing, tools, and crafts. _____ also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and
technology.
Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution-When? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
change from food gathering to food production that occurred between 8000
and 2000 B.C.E., independently in various parts of the world. This also
includes the domestication of plants and animals.
Paleolithic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The period of the Stone Age associated with
the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Neolithic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The period of the Stone Age associated with the
ancient Agricultural Revolution (s). It follows the Paleolithic period.
Mohenjo-Darro - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Largest of the cities of the Indus Valley
civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus
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,River in contemporary Pakistan. Little is known about the political
institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large scale of construction
at Mohenjo-Daro, the orderly grid for streets, and the standardization of
building materials are evidence of central planning.
Name the 4 river valleys where civilization began. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1)
Mesopotamia, 2) Egypt, 3) Pakistan, 4) northern China
What are the characteristics of civilization? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Cities that
serve as administrative centers, 2) a political system based on control of
defined territory, 3) specialization, 4) status based on wealth, 5)
monumental buildings, 6) a writing system, 7) long distance trade, and 8)
major advancements in science and art.
Loess - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. It
constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China.
Because _____ soil is not compacted, it can be worked with a simple
digging stick, but it leaves the region vulnerable to devastating
earthquakes.
Daoism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Chinese school of thought, originating in the
Warring States Period with Laozi. Daoism offered an alternative to the
Confucian emphasis on hierarchy and duty. Daoists believe that the world
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, is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They
accept the world as they find it, avoid futile struggles, and deviate as little
as possible from the Dao, or "path" of nature.
Legalism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An authoritarian political philosophy that came to
be called ____. These thinkers believe human nature is essentially wicked
and that people behave in an orderly fashion only if compelled by strict
laws and harsh punishments.
Confucius - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Western name for the Chinese philosopher
Konzi (551-479 B.C.E.). His doctrine of duty and public service had a great
influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct
for government officials.
Mandate of Heaven - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Chinese religious and political
ideology developed by the Zhou, according to which it was the prerogative
of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the rule of China and to take
away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself justly and in the best
interests of his subjects.
Shang - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The dominant people in the earliest Chinese
dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1045 B.C.E.).
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