AP World History Unit 4 Vocabulary
Aztec Empire
Theme 3: State-building, expansion, and conflict - answerDefinition: Also known as the Triple
Alliance, started as a pact between 3 Nahua "altepetl" governments: Mexico-Tenochtitlan,
Mexico-Texcoco, and Mexico-Tlacopan.
Key Concept: 4.3 State Con...
Theme 3: State-building, expansion, and conflict - answer✔Definition: Also known as the Triple
Alliance, started as a pact between 3 Nahua "altepetl" governments: Mexico-Tenochtitlan,
Mexico-Texcoco, and Mexico-Tlacopan.
Key Concept: 4.3 State Consolidation and Imperial expansion
Sig: This empire was one of the dominant forces in the Central America region.
Benin
Theme 3: State-building, expansion, and conflict - answer✔Definition: A country in West
Africa, an ancient kingdom that was ruled by a warrior king.
Key Concept: 4.3 State Consolidation and Imperial expansion
Sig: This nation played a significant role in the development of the culture of Africa.
Christopher Columbus
Theme 1: Interaction between humans and the environment - answer✔Definition: An Italian
explorer and colonizer that completed four journeys across the Atlantic Ocean into the New
World.
Key Concept: 4.1 Globalizing networks of Communication and Exchange
Sig: This navigator was one of the first Europeans to discover the Americas.
Fire stick Farming
Theme 1: Interaction between humans and the environment - answer✔Definition: The
agricultural strategy that Indigenous Australians used to burn vegetation in order to make
hunting easier and to alter the fate and resistance of plant and animal species in a land.
Key Concept: 4.2 New forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
Sig: This method of agriculture greatly aided the Indigenous Australians in surviving off the land
they lived on.
Vasco De Gama
Theme 1: Interaction between humans and the environment - answer✔Definition: Went by the
title of 1st Count of Vidigueira, he was a the 1st European to arrive in India through nautical
means as a Portuguese explorer.
Key Concept: 4.1 Globalizing networks of Communication and Exchange
Sig: This explorer helped develop a new route to India for the Europeans to use.
Hundred Years War
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