AP World History 2012-2013
  • Unit 1
    • 1.1.3: Tools and Adaptation>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.3.9 & 1.3.2: New Religions & Geographies of Early Civs.>
      • Early Religions>
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
        • Works Cited
      • The Early Civilizations>
        • Case Study
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
        • Works Cited
    • 1.1.2: Humans and Fire>
      • 1.1.4: Economic Structures>
        • Case Study
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.3.6: Arts & Record Keeping>
      • Arts and Artisanship
      • Systems of Recordkeeping
      • Case Study: The Phoenician Alphabet
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.3.1-1.3.3: Early Culture & Systems of Rule>
      • Culture's Effects
      • Systems of Rule
      • Case Study: Hammurabi's Code
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.1-1.4 Early Human Innovation>
      • 1.1.1: Human Patterns of Migration>
        • Case Study
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.2.1-1.2.3: The Climate & The Neolithic Era>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.2.5-1.2.6: Reliable Food Sources & Innovation>
      • Case Study - The Plow
      • Works Cited
    • 1.3.1-1.3.2: Pastoralists & Early Architecture>
      • Introduction
      • Monumental Architecture And Urban Planning
      • Pastoralist Weapon Dissemination And Transportation
      • Pastoralist Tools
      • Basic
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Works Cited
  • Unit 2
    • 2.2.5-2.2.7 Social Hierarchy and Gender Roles>
      • Gender Roles>
        • Case Study
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Social Hierarchies >
        • AGMSPRITE
    • 2.2.4 Cities>
      • Trade>
        • Trade AGMSPRITE
        • Trade Case Study
      • Religious Rituals>
        • Religious Rituals AGMSPRITE
        • Religious Rituals Case Study
      • Public Administration>
        • Public Administration AGMSPRITE
        • Public Administration Case Study
    • 2.2.2 Orchestration of the Persian and S. Asian Empires>
      • Persia>
        • Imperial Administration and Legal Systems
        • Military Power
        • Trade and Economic Integration and Regulation
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • South Asia>
        • Imperial Administration and Legal Systems
        • Military Power
        • Trade and Economic Integration and Regulation
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 2.2.2 Orchestration of Rome and China>
      • China>
        • Imperial Administration
        • Military Power
        • Trade and Economics
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Rome>
        • Imperial Administration
        • Military Power
        • Trade and Economics
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 2.2.1: Growth of Empires & States>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 2.1.6 Cultures Of Second Wave Civilizations>
      • Sculptures
      • Architecture
      • Literature
      • A.G.M.S.P.R.I.T.E
      • Sources
    • 2.1.1: Religions as a Bonding Force>
      • The Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Case Study
    • 2.1.4 Buddhism and Hinduism Impact on Gender Roles>
      • Buddhism
    • 2.1.2 The Emergence of Religions>
      • Christianity
      • Confucianism
      • Greco-Roman Philosophy
      • Daoism
      • AGMSPRITE
  • Unit 3
    • 3.1.1 Third Wave Global Trade Routes>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 3.1.2 The Impact of trade on emerging trading cities>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 3.1.3. Spread of Islam Through Afro-Eurasia>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 3.1.4 Inter-Regional Travelers >
      • The Basic Gist
      • Compare and Contrast
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 3.1.5. Cultural Interactions and Art>
      • The Basic Gist
      • Cultural Traditions AGMSPRITE
      • Art AGMSPRITE
      • Literature AGMSPRITE
      • Case Study
    • 3.1.6: The Impact of Newly Spread Technologies and Scientific Knowledge>
      • Basic Gist
      • Movement of Gunpowder from East to West
      • Movement of Printing from East to West
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 3.1.7 Inter-Regional Conflicts>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
  • Unit 4
    • 4.1.1. - Influence of Tools Upon Transoceanic Trade>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 4.1.2: Maritime Reconnaissance>
      • Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 4.1.3 World Economies>
      • Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE analysis
      • Case Study
    • 4.1.4 The Colossal Impact of the Colombian Exchange>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study on Sugar
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis of the East
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis of the West
    • 4.1.5 Government and the Arts>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 4.2.3 Forced Migration of Africans Cause and Effect>
      • Basic Gist
      • Causes of the forced migration of Africans
      • Effects/Developments of the forced migration of Africans
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 4.3.2 Impact of Technology on state consolidation and imperial expansion>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
  • Unit 5
    • 5.3.1 US and Latin American Revolutions >
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.2b Hatian Revolution>
      • Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.2a: Causes and Effects of French Revolution>
      • Causes of the French Revolution
      • Effects of the French Revolution
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.2c Causes and Effects of the Mexican Revolution>
      • Basic Gist
      • Causes of the Mexican Revolution
      • Effects of the Mexican Revolution
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 5.3.3: The Winds of Change>
      • Case Study
      • The Conception of Nation-States
      • Nationalism on the Rise
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 5.3.4 Nationalism and Democracy >
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
      • 5.3.5 Enlightenment and European Despots>
        • Basic Gist
  • Unit 6
    • War and Peace in a Global Context>
      • Big Gist>
        • WWI vs WWII
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Changing Economics>
      • Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE
      • Case Study
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Demographic and Environmental Changes>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 20th Century Globalization>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Effects of Revolutions on Women>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • New Patterns of Nationalism >
      • Basic Gist
      • Independence of Vietnam Case Study
      • Effects of Communism Case Study
      • Chinese and Russian Revolutions
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Globalization of Science, technology and culture. >
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE

AGMSPRITE

Pete Dauphin & Britney Spindler

Art & Architecture

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Geography

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Travelers and traders were able to effectively navigate geography.
Technological innovations in transoceanic trade and travel created new interactions with geography. Developments in the Europe’s shipbuilding techniques, the lateen sail, magnetic compass, and the sternpost rudder from China allowed sailors to efficiently travel the ocean. The ability to successfully navigate the ocean lead Europeans to geographically unfamiliar areas like the Americas and Western Africa. Europe was able to conquer the Americas and geographically expand their empire.


Military

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An artist's rendering of a Spaniard wielding the arquebus.
Innovative tools used in transoceanic trade and travel assisted Spanish in conquering the parts of the Americas and gaining military power. Expanding on gunpowder technology from China the Spanish were able to create more advanced weapons, like the Arquebus. Their ability to navigate the oceans and get to the Americas allowed Europeans to spread their power. Their advanced weapons assisted the Europeans in conquering the Americas. Advanced gun technology made the Europeans militaristically more powerful than the Middle East and Asia.


Society

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Black people were treated as commodities.
Society was heavily altered by the innovations related to transoceanic trade and travel. A significant change in society was the use of Africans as slaves. The new technology allowed access to the West coast of Africa to easier. Although, the idea of slavery wasn't new a class of people with dark skin who did free labor was. The societies in Africa were altered because they were now being sold to Europeans and living without freedom. The ability of transoceanic trade and travel spawned interactions between people of many different cultures altering societies. The Europeans altered the Native societies in the Americas by conquering their lands and depleting their populations with foreign disease.


Politics

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Religion

Advancement in technology and tools which allowed for the transoceanic trade to begin also allowed for the beginnings of colonialism and religious conquest. In this way, religion changed massively. Missionaries travelled along with traders and gained wealth and new converts.  In the Americas, especially South America, religious conversion was very successful. This was primarily due to the fact that there was little written religion with which to combat Christianity (additionally, people in the americas believed that successful european conquest was a symbol
of the death of their own gods). When Europeans weren't slaying non-converts, they were creating a sort of religious patois. Oftentimes native religions would combine with Christianity. Local rituals would survive and christian figures (saints, etc) would take on the duties of traditional deities. Beyond that, Europeans were settling in the Americas to escape religious persecution and find new places in which to practice freely. Although Europeans pursued religious conquest in Asia, it did not take well primarily because Christianity was very different to Asian religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism, which oftentimes focused on reincarnation and strict social hierarchy. Additionally, Asian religions were based in literature and sacred texts which are much harder to overtake than verbal religion.

Intellect

A result of transoceanic trade was that ideas were able to spread more quickly. Although, transoceanic trade was not the genesis of racism it was perpetuated it. The European traders viewing Africans as a commodity perpetuated the idea of racism to Europeans. The ability to navigate oceans lead to the spread of technological ideas and Christianity on different continents. 

Technology

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The prompt focuses on the development of new tools in order to advance transoceanic trade. See the Case Study for more details.
In addition to the compass, other technologies include the sextant and the astrolabe. The sextant was invented in the early 1700s and is a navigational tool. It is a simple tool which uses mirrors and reflection to find the angle of celestial bodies in relation to the horizon. Using that information to navigate and find your location is a slightly more challenging process which involves complex calculations, charts, and extensive knowledge of the earth in relation to other celestial bodies.
This is just one example of the way technologies advanced and developed to aid navigation and travel.

The image to the right is a sextant used for navigation.

Economy

The transoceanic trade revitalized Europe's economy in a new way. Europe was forced to expand outside of its continental region in order to find new ways to compete with India and China in trade. Europeans took control in the Americas and the Philippines, and also colonized port cities throughout coastal Asia. These ports and colonies began to level out the massive trade deficit Europe had to Asia. The English and the Dutch created their own trade empires in Asia while the Spanish colonized the Philippines and the Portuguese controlled much of the Indian Ocean. They were able to control their own commerce without relying on Middle Eastern traders to act as a go-between. Europe also had new access to the Americas and was able to take advantage of the resources there, too. 80% of the world's silver was at one time found in Spanish America, and the European fur trade flourished because of the abundance of fur-bearing animals in the Americas. Furthermore, Europeans were also able to trade with Native Americans  They traded so much that Native Americans in fact became dependent on European goods such as iron tools, gunpowder, and textiles. The expansion of trade and the growth of the world economy due to the spread of transoceanic trade was massive.

Works Cited

Compton, Marc. Lecture.

Equiano, Olaudah. "Excerpts from Slave Narratives - Chapter 3." Excerpts from Slave Narratives - Chapter 3. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2013.

"European Voyages of Exploration: Shipbuilding." European Voyages of Exploration: Shipbuilding. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2013.

"How to Use a Sextant." Robin's Dockside Shop Online. Robin's Dockside Shop, n.d. Web. 05 Feb. 2013. <http://www.robinsdocksideshop.com/how_to_use_a_sextant.htm>.

Slave Auction Ad.jpg. Digital image. Wikipedia. N.p., n.d. Web.

"Spanish Soldier Aiming an Arquebus in the New World, 16th Century Giclee Print." , Images, Pictures, Spanish Soldier Aiming an Arquebus in the New World, 16th Century Posters Code. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2013.

Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History. [S.l.]: Bedford Bks St Martin'S, 2012. Print.



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