1. AP World Review
Unit 3

2. Historical Thinking Skills
Comparison
Continuity and Change Over Time
Use of Evidence
Periodization
Causation
Argumentation
Contextualization
Interpretation
Synthesis

3. Specifics for Unit 3 Three Key Concepts Represents 20% of total exam
Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks (3.1)
Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions (3.2)
Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences (3.3)
Represents 20% of total exam

4. Communication and Trade Networks
Who’s trading? Where were they trading? What did the trade?
Empires and Trade
Migration
Cross-Cultural Exchanges
Small scale and large scale
Crops and Diseases

5. State Forms and Their Interactions
New Governments
Islamic States
Khanates
Japan and Europe
Byzantine Empire
Chinese Empires
Contacts & Conflict  Technological & Cultural Transfers
Tang and Abbasids
Crusades
Mongol Empires

6. Economic Capacity Increased agricultural and manufactured goods
The Fate of Cities
Social Changes
Labor Organization
Patriarchy
Rebellion of Free Peasants
Changes in Family Structure because of Religion

7. What do we do with this? Remember the historical thinking skills
Comparisons
Trade Routes
Empires
Decline of cities
Migrations (Bantu v. Polynesian)
Change and Continuity Over Time
Rise and Fall of Empires
Religion
Periodization

8. Be aware… Change and Continuity can stretch over two periods
Comparisons can be between similar processes in different time periods
You can’t look at anything in isolation!!!