AP WORLD HISTORY UPDATED TEST GUIDE
2026 PROVEN SOLUTIONS DELIVERED
◉ conduit. Answer: a means by which something is transmitted (ex:
religion, disease, technology via trade routes)
◉ Swahili city-states. Answer: A number of commercial polities
established mostly by Indian Ocean trade by Bantu descendants the
Swahili, they rose to significant economic and political sapience
between 700 and 1100 CE forming large trade ports with coral brick
houses and a wealthy merchant and artisan class. Primarily traded
gold and ivory but knowledge also traveled along these routes
◉ Timbuktu. Answer: Mali trading city that became a center of
wealth and learning; Muslim
◉ Venice. Answer: An Italian town along with Pisa and Genoa that
controlled the Mediterranean trade after 1200 CE bringing silks and
spices from Asia to Europe.
◉ luxury goods. Answer: Goods that have special qualities that make
them more expensive than alternative goods (ex: silk, cotton textiles,
porcelain, spices, precious gems/metals)
◉ porcelain. Answer: a thin, beautiful pottery invented in China;
China had a monopoly on porcelain for a long time, luxury good
, ◉ astrolabe. Answer: An instrument used by sailors to determine
their location by observing the position of the stars and planets;
encouraged the growth of trade and exploration; invented by the
Greek 220 BCE
◉ paper money. Answer: legal currency issued on paper; it developed
in China as a convenient alternative to metal coins
◉ Hanseatic League. Answer: an organization of north German and
Scandinavian cities for the purpose of establishing a commercial
alliance.
◉ Byzantine Empire. Answer: (330 CE-1453 CE) The eastern half of
the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western
Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was
Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine. Christian,
centralized, Hagia Sophia, ceasorpapism
◉ caesaropapism. Answer: A political- religious system in which the
secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the
Byzantine Empire.
◉ Bantu migration. Answer: The movement of the Bantu peoples
southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture,
iron metallurgy, and agricultural techniques from around 500 BCE to
around 1000 CE
2026 PROVEN SOLUTIONS DELIVERED
◉ conduit. Answer: a means by which something is transmitted (ex:
religion, disease, technology via trade routes)
◉ Swahili city-states. Answer: A number of commercial polities
established mostly by Indian Ocean trade by Bantu descendants the
Swahili, they rose to significant economic and political sapience
between 700 and 1100 CE forming large trade ports with coral brick
houses and a wealthy merchant and artisan class. Primarily traded
gold and ivory but knowledge also traveled along these routes
◉ Timbuktu. Answer: Mali trading city that became a center of
wealth and learning; Muslim
◉ Venice. Answer: An Italian town along with Pisa and Genoa that
controlled the Mediterranean trade after 1200 CE bringing silks and
spices from Asia to Europe.
◉ luxury goods. Answer: Goods that have special qualities that make
them more expensive than alternative goods (ex: silk, cotton textiles,
porcelain, spices, precious gems/metals)
◉ porcelain. Answer: a thin, beautiful pottery invented in China;
China had a monopoly on porcelain for a long time, luxury good
, ◉ astrolabe. Answer: An instrument used by sailors to determine
their location by observing the position of the stars and planets;
encouraged the growth of trade and exploration; invented by the
Greek 220 BCE
◉ paper money. Answer: legal currency issued on paper; it developed
in China as a convenient alternative to metal coins
◉ Hanseatic League. Answer: an organization of north German and
Scandinavian cities for the purpose of establishing a commercial
alliance.
◉ Byzantine Empire. Answer: (330 CE-1453 CE) The eastern half of
the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western
Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was
Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine. Christian,
centralized, Hagia Sophia, ceasorpapism
◉ caesaropapism. Answer: A political- religious system in which the
secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the
Byzantine Empire.
◉ Bantu migration. Answer: The movement of the Bantu peoples
southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture,
iron metallurgy, and agricultural techniques from around 500 BCE to
around 1000 CE
