AP World: Quest (Chaps. 6-8) Review

1. Know all the key dates from the beginning of the common era (32 C.E.--beginnings of Christianity) to 732 (Battle of Tours). As for 632 (Rise of Islam), it is a very good idea to look in the book not only to make sure you have the chronology of Mohammed's birth through hijra through his death through the empire's expansion and the Sunni-Shi'a split, but also that you should have an approximate sense of dates of these events. (i.e. born 570ish, first revelations 610ish, and so on...)
2. PERSIA! PERSIA! PERSIA! To be fully prepared, make sure to PERSIA the pre-Muslim Arab society, the Umayyads, the Abbasids, Islam in South Asia, Islam in Southeast Asia, and pre-Muslim African societies (North Africa, grasslands, Swahili coast, forest & plains) and how/to what degree Islam impacted the PERSIA of each one.
3. Don't forget to review the role of women in these societies. After all, they do happen to make up half of the population of every culture.