What Are the Best Quizlet Decks for AP World?

Unit 1: The Global Tapestry (8-10%)

• Caste System: a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation, but also his or her position in society.
• Serfdom: a type of labor used in feudal Europe in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but they are bound to the land and are not allowed to leave or to pursue a new occupation.
• Tribute System: a payment made by one nation to another in acknowledgment of submission, notably used by Chinese dynasties.

Unit 2: Networks of Exchange (8-10%)

• Bubonic Plague: a disease brought to Europe by the Mongols during the Middle Ages.
• Magnetic Compass: a Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north.
• Mansa Musa: an emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East.

Unit 3: Land-Based Empires (12-15%)

• Mandate of Heaven: a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule by a divine source.
• Protestant Reformation: a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.
• Tax Farming: a government's use of private collectors to collect taxes. Individuals or corporations contract with the government to collect a fixed amount for the government and are permitted to keep as profit everything they collect over that amount. (used in Ottoman Empire)

Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections (12-15%)

• Coercive Labor: any labor system that involves force. (slavery, serfdom, encomienda)
• Mercantilism: an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by strictly regulating the economy to obtain large amounts of gold and silver by selling more goods than they bought and utilizing colonies.
• Plantation Agriculture: a production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop.

Unit 5: Revolutions (12-15%)

• Berlin Conference: a meeting in Berlin where many superpowers met to divide up the African continent.
• Capitalism: an economic system based on private ownership of capital.
• French Revolution: a revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.

Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization (12-15%)

• King Leopold II: a Belgian king who opened the African interior to European trade along the Congo River and, by 1884, controlled the area known as the Congo Free State.
• Opium War: a war between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories; the victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China.
• White Australia Policy: a policy that intentionally restricted non-white immigration to Australia.

Unit 7: Global Conflict (8-10%)

• Great Depression: the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.
• Holocaust: a methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.
• League of Nations: an organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.

Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization (8-10%)

• African National Congress: a political organization that pushed for an end to apartheid in South Africa and equality between whites and blacks.
• NATO: a military alliance, created in 1949, made up of 12 non-communist countries, including the United States, that would support each other if attacked.
• Proxy War: a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate.

Unit 9: Globalization (8-10%)

• Green Revolution: a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1960s, that increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world.
• United Nations: an organization established in 1945 as a successor to the League of Nations; attempts to find solutions to global problems and deal with virtually any matter of concern to humanity.
• World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO): a global network of fair trade organizations and resources for locating vendors and products.