AP World History
Study Guide – Russia, Latin America, and Africa
Chapters 18 – 20
AP World History
Name: ______
Early Modern Age,
1450 C.E. to 1750 C.E.
Russia, Latin America, & Africa
Study Guide
Shaka, King of the Zulu
(1781-1828)
Chapters 18 – 20
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Chapter 18
The Rise of Russia
- Into what areas did Russia expand and how was this accomplished?
- How had Mongol rule affected Russia?
- What was the nature of Russian expansion under the Ivans’?
- How did Peter the Great try to “westernize” Russia?
- What was the extent of Westernization under Catherine the Great?
- What was the nature of Russian serfdom?
- Why did Russia become economically dependent on the West?
- What themes have dominated Russian history, and how have they affected Russian development?
- What characteristics did Eastern Europe share with Russia?
Chapter 19
Early Latin America
- How did Iberian society influence Spanish and Portuguese conquests?
- What Iberian institutions were transplanted to the Americas?
- How did the Caribbean serve as a model of the Spanish Empire?
- Discuss the economy of the American colonies.
- What effects did the Spanish contacts and conquests have on Indian society?
- What was the Great Exchange and how did it affect societies around the world?
- How did Spain manage and organize its empire and colonial possessions?
- How did the discovery of gold & diamonds change the economic organization of Brazil?
- What effects did the 18th century reform movements have on Latin America?
- Describe the social hierarchy of the American colonies.
Chapter 20
Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- How did the arrival of Portugal (and other Europeans) affect West Africa?
- Why did the slave trades arise and how did they affect Africa?
- How many Africans were enslaved and where did they go?
- How was the slave trade organized and who controlled the trade?
- How did African slavery differ from American slavery?
- How did the slave trade influence African politics and the rise of states?
- What developments occurred in East Africa?
- What was the Mfecane and how did it affect Southern Africa?
- How did African cultures, religions, and institutions change outside of Africa?
- Why did the slave trade come to an end?
Unit Review
- Identify three similarities between the labor systems developed in Russia, Latin America, and Africa during this period.
- Identify three similarities of the economic roles developed in Russia, Latin America, and Africa during this period.
- Identify the similarities the cultures developed in Latin America, and Africa during this period.
Identify
Who? What? Where? When?
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- Boyars
- Pugachev Rebellion
- Cossaks
- Westernization
- Partition of Poland
- Encomiendas
- Bartolome de las Casas
- Mita
- Conquistador
- Haciendas
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Council of the Indies
- Viceroyalties
- Captaincies
- Sociedad de las Castas
- Peninsulares
- Creoles
- Lancados
- Indies Piece
- Triangular Trade
- Great Trek
- Mfecane
- Middle Passage
- Factories
- Asantehene