APWH POST-CLASSICAL ERA (1200 – 1450) WORLD MAP TEST STUDY GUIDE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF POST-CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY: THE POST-CLASSICAL WORLD • During the Post-Classical Era the areas of civilization spread to all continents except Australia and the Antarctic. • Areas, which had never known civilization, especially the lands and islands on the periphery of older civilizations, were settled and brought into contact with the core centers of civilizations. HISTORICAL REGIONS & MIGRATIONS

• Bantu Migrations • Catholic Western Europe • Indian Ocean Trade Route • Polynesian Migrations • Silk Road • Trans-Saharan Trade Route BODIES OF WATER

• Baltic Sea • North Sea • Congo River • Sea of Japan • Java Sea • Volga River • Mekong River PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

• Bosporus, Dardanelles • Hawaiian Islands • Iberian Peninsula • Java • Madagascar • Ural Mountains CITIES • Baghdad • Hangzhou • Cahokia • Heian • • Kilwa • Calicut • Melaka • Constantinople • Mogadishu • Cordoba • Novgorod • Great Zimbabwe • Tenochtitlan • Guangzhou • • Venice

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