AP WORLD HISTORYMIDDLE EAST REVIEW

UNIT 1:

Mesopotamia

Egypt

UNIT 2:

Nomadic Groups

Persian Empire

Greek-Persian Wars

Influence of Middle East in Indian Ocean; Saharan Trade Routes

Impact of Alexander the Great; Roman Empire

UNIT 3:

The Rise of Islam

Umayyad Caliphate (goals, problems, fall)

Abbasid Caliphate (goals, problems, fall)

Impact on: Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, India

Role in Trade

The Crusades

The Mongols (Il-Khanate of Persia)

The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

UNIT 4:

The Ottoman Empire (1453; millet system; changes made; threat to Western Europe; problems; janissaries; expansion)

The Safavid Empire (relationship with other religions; relationship with Ottoman Empire; relationship with Europeans; trade; problems)

Conflicts with Western Europe

Influence on India, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa

UNIT 5:

The Ottoman Empire (Problems and Reforms)

Muhammad Ali (Egypt)

Suez Canal

UNIT 6:

Role in World War I and World War II

Balfour Declaration

Decolonization

Arab Nationalism; Building of Arab Nation-States

Iranian Revolution

Role in Global Trade (oil; OPEC)

Islamic fundamentalism

KEY THEMES:

  • Role in the development of early civilizations
  • Relationship with other regions through trade (Mediterranean; Saharan and Sub-Saharan Trade Routes; Silk Road; Indian)
  • Influence of Islam in Shaping Region
  • Expansion and influence of Islam upon other regions (Sub-Saharan Africa; Western Europe; India)
  • Empire and Nation-State Building (treatment of Muslims vs. Non-Muslims; conflicts between religious factions; efforts at unification and expansion)
  • Social Interactions with in the Middle East (Muslims/Non-Muslims; Roles of Women; Changing Social Expectations; Coercive Labor)

PREVIOUS ESSAY QUESTIONS:

  • Analyze similarities/differences between the role of the state in Japan’s economic development and the role of the state in the economic development of ONE of the following during the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries (China, Ottoman Empire, Russia)
  • Compare the 19th century nation-building in Latin America to that of the Middle East in the 20th Century
  • Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from 300 to 1450 CE
  • Analyze major changes and continuities in nationalist ideology and practice in the Middle East from World War One to the present.
  • Compare the historical processes of empire building in the Spanish maritime empire in the period from 1450 through 1800 with the historical processes of empire building in the Ottoman Empire.
  • Analyze changes and continuities along the Silk Roads from 200 BCE to 1450 CE
  • Compare the process of state-building in TWO of the following in the period 600 to 1450 CE (Islamic States; City-States; Mongol Khanates)
  • Compare the effects of the First World War in TWO of the following regions (East Asia, Middle East, South Asia)
  • Compare differing responses to industrialization in any TWO of the following (Japan, Ottoman Empire, China, Russia)