AP World History: Units 1–2

Distinguish the major state-building methods, belief systems, and economic patterns of East Asia, the Islamic world, South and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from c. 1200 to c. 1450 using a regional comparison chart.

Explain how commercial practices, technologies, states, and empires expanded the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and trans-Saharan networks and produced major cultural, environmental, and economic effects from c. 1200 to c. 1450.