[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-315077-105":59,"doc-detail-315077-en":131},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":124,"head_meta":126,"extra_data":128,"updated_unix":130},105,"en","the-ap-art-history-curriculum-framework-content-area-7-west-and-central-asia","The AP Art History Curriculum Framework - Content Area 7 - West and Central Asia","","Guidance for AP Art History Content Area 7 focuses on West and Central Asian art from 500 B.C.E. to 1980 C.E. It explains how historical cultures and shifting boundaries shaped the Silk Route connections between regions spanning Greco-Roman, China, and India. The framework emphasizes cultural transmission through arts influenced by Islam and Buddhism, cross-cultural comparisons, and major materials such as textiles, metalworks, and ceramics. It also addresses religious architecture, pilgrimage monuments, and the varying use of figural art in Buddhist versus Islamic contexts, including nonfigural mosque decoration and sacred manuscript practices.",{"@graph":69,"@context":123},[70,84,106],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-ap-art-history-curriculum-framework-content-area-7-west-and-central-asia/315077/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/the-ap-art-history-curriculum-framework-content-area-7-west-and-central-asia/315077.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"WPS_1786070896","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-01","2026-09-20",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":105},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",14,{"@type":107,"mainEntity":108},"FAQPage",[109,115,119],{"name":110,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":112},"What historical role do the arts of West and Central Asia play in world art?","Question",{"text":113,"@type":114},"They play a key role in world art history by giving form to vast cultural interchanges that linked European and Asian peoples.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"How did major religions shape art across West and Central Asia?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"Buddhism and Islam unify the region’s religious arts through shared beliefs and practices, and architecture often serves religious functions. Arts may be sacred or secular and show influence from cultural ideas transmitted across these lands.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"How does the framework compare figural art in Buddhist and Islamic contexts?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"Figural art is common in secular art across the region and is a primary visual communication form in Buddhist communities. In Islamic religious contexts, mosque decoration is nonfigural, and sacred-text objects focus on calligraphy and ornamentation without figural imagery, though figural art appears in Islamic secular works.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},315077,1790053759,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":44,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145,"preview_page_count":4},549768072016,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","The AP Art History Curriculum Framework  \n\n| CONTENT AREA 7\u003Cbr>West and Central Asia\u003Cbr>500 B. C. E.–1980 C. E. |\n| --- |\n| ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 7-1. The arts of West and Central Asia play a key role in the history of world art, giving form to the vast cultural interchanges that have occurred in these lands that link the European and Asian peoples.\u003Cbr>▶ Essential Knowledge 7-1a. Historical cultures of West and Central Asia reside ina vast area that includes the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, Anatolia, Greater Iran, Central Asia, Inner Asia, and Himalayan Asia. These regions have had shifting political boundaries throughout their histories and include lands associated with the former Soviet Union and modern China. They form the heart of the ancient Silk Route that connected the Greco–Roman world with China and India.\u003Cbr>▶ Essential Knowledge 7-1b. Arts attest to the transmission and influence of cultural ideas, such as Islam and Buddhism, and cultural art forms, such as Hellenistic architecture, Buddhist sculpture, chinoiserie (in Persian art), and ceramic-tile decoration. Cross-cultural comparisons with the arts of these regions may be made most readily to the arts of the ancient Mediterranean, medieval Europe, and South, East, and Southeast Asia.\u003Cbr>▶ Essential Knowledge 7-1c. West Asia is the cradle of arts produced in regions with a dominant Islamic culture. These arts may be religious or secular in nature, and may or may not have been made by or for Muslims. The term “Islamic Art” maybe applied to these diverse art forms. Many examples of Islamic art from across the traditional Islamic lands share similarities in terms of their content and visual characteristics.\u003Cbr>▶ Essential Knowledge 7-1d. The arts of West and Central Asia were created for and acquired by various kinds of local and global patrons. Audiences for these works included royal and wealthy patrons, lay and monastic religious practitioners, and foreign collectors who acquired works through gift or trade.\u003Cbr>▶ Essential Knowledge 7-1e. The arts of West and Central Asia had great international impact through trade. Textiles were perhaps the most important art form in these regions and dominated much of the international trade between Europe and Asia. Islamic metalworks, including examples with Christian subject matter, were created for trade in the regions bordering the Mediterranean. Ceramics were another important trade item, particularly the iznik wares created in Turkey. |\n\nENDURING UNDERSTANDING 7-2. The religious arts of West and Central Asia are united by the traditions ofthe region: Buddhism and Islam.  \n▶ Essential Knowledge 7-2a. Cultures of these regions are diverse, but they were united through their shared beliefs and practices, particularly the world religions of Buddhism, which originated in the sixth century B. C.E. in South Asia, and Islam, which originated in the seventh century C.E. in West Asia.  \nAP Art History Course and Exam Description  \nReturn to Table of Contents  \n© 2015 The College Board  \n129  \nThe AP Art History Curriculum Framework  \n▶ Essential Knowledge 7-2b. Architecture in West and Central Asia is frequently religious in function. West and Central Asia is home to many important Islamic mosques, which are decorated with nonfigural imagery, including calligraphy and vegetal forms. All mosques have a Qibla wall, which faces the direction of Mecca, home of the Kaaba. This wall is ornamented with an empty Mihrab niche, serving asa focus for prayer. A large congregational mosque may also include a Minbar (pulpit for the imam), as well as a Minaret and a central courtyard to call and accommodate practitioners for prayer. Other important forms of Islamic religious architecture include commemorative monuments, such as the Kaaba and the Dome of the Rock, and tomb architecture. Central Asia is further recognized for its outstanding Buddhist cave architecture, which incorporates relief carving, constructive sculpture, and wall paintin","cbCaiaL2GPdK0izh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaL2GPdK0izh","pdf",3436591,"English","# Enduring Understanding 7-1\n## Essential Knowledge 7-1a\n## Essential Knowledge 7-1b\n## Essential Knowledge 7-1c\n## Essential Knowledge 7-1d\n## Essential Knowledge 7-1e\n# Enduring Understanding 7-2\n## Essential Knowledge 7-2a\n## Essential Knowledge 7-2b\n## Essential Knowledge 7-2c\n# Enduring Understanding 7-3\n## Essential Knowledge 7-3a\n## Essential Knowledge 7-3b\n## Essential Knowledge 7-3c","[{\"question\":\"What historical role do the arts of West and Central Asia play in world art?\",\"answer\":\"They play a key role in world art history by giving form to vast cultural interchanges that linked European and Asian peoples.\"},{\"question\":\"How did major religions shape art across West and Central Asia?\",\"answer\":\"Buddhism and Islam unify the region’s religious arts through shared beliefs and practices, and architecture often serves religious functions. Arts may be sacred or secular and show influence from cultural ideas transmitted across these lands.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the framework compare figural art in Buddhist and Islamic contexts?\",\"answer\":\"Figural art is common in secular art across the region and is a primary visual communication form in Buddhist communities. In Islamic religious contexts, mosque decoration is nonfigural, and sacred-text objects focus on calligraphy and ornamentation without figural imagery, though figural art appears in Islamic secular works.\"}]","The AP Art History Curriculum Framework - Content Area 7 - West and Central Asia | PDF",1789903027,23]