3556937487 | AP regions | W. Europe; E. Europe; E. Asia; SE Asia; N Africa; W Africa; E Africa; S Africa; Latin America; Oceania; Central Africa | 0 | |
3556948996 | Ghana, Mali, Songhay | W. Africa | 1 | |
3556949961 | Aksum, Ethiopia | E. Africa | 2 | |
3556953246 | Kongo | Equatorial Africa | 3 | |
3556953247 | China | E. Asia | 4 | |
3556954784 | India | S. Asia | 5 | |
3556956269 | Russia | E. Europe | 6 | |
3556957342 | E. Europe | Byzantium | 7 | |
3556958616 | Abbasid Caliphate | Middle East | 8 | |
3556958618 | Japan | E. Asia | 9 | |
3556959693 | Vietnam | SE Asia | 10 | |
3556962630 | Delhi Sultanate, Mughals | S. Asia | 11 | |
3556962631 | Ottoman Empire | E. Europe, Middle East | 12 | |
3556992379 | Area of protestant reformation, commercial revolution, and the enlightenment | W. Europe | 13 | |
3556998652 | Foundations Period | 8000BCE-600BCE | 14 | |
3556999728 | Classical Era | 600BCE-600CE | 15 | |
3557001229 | Post-classical Era | 600CE-1450CE | 16 | |
3557004956 | Early Modern Era | 1450CE-1750CE | 17 | |
3557006503 | Modern Era | 1750CE-1914CE | 18 | |
3557007941 | Contemporary Era | 1914-Present | 19 | |
3557613481 | River Valley Civilizations | Foundations | 20 | |
3557616019 | Zhou, Qin, Han | Classical | 21 | |
3557620097 | Ancient Greece & Rome | Classical | 22 | |
3557622298 | Maurya & Gupta | Classical | 23 | |
3557625456 | Rise of the Maya | Classical | 24 | |
3557627123 | Delhi Sultanate | Postclassical | 25 | |
3557627124 | Mughal Empire | Early Modern | 26 | |
3557631389 | Ghana, Mali, Songhay | Postclassical | 27 | |
3557634347 | Feudal Japan Era begins | Postclassical | 28 | |
3557639201 | Rise Incas & Aztecs | Postclassical | 29 | |
3557642099 | Umayyad & Abbasid Caliphates | Postclassical | 30 | |
3557642100 | Byzantium | Postclassical | 31 | |
3557643821 | Kievan Rus | Postclassical | 32 | |
3557646494 | Sui, Tang, Song | Postclassical | 33 | |
3557648413 | Crusades | Postclassical | 34 | |
3557649781 | Commercial Revolution in Europe | Early Modern | 35 | |
3557651481 | Zhenghe Expeditions | Postclassical | 36 | |
3557653513 | Mongol Empire | Postclassical | 37 | |
3557656097 | Protestant Reformation | Early Modern | 38 | |
3557658417 | Early Modern | European Colonization of Americas | 39 | |
3557662846 | eqalitarian | promoting social equality | 40 | |
3557666051 | bureaucracy | hierarchy of specialized officials administering policies of an institution, especially a government | 41 | |
3557673336 | civil service system | government bureaucracy whose posts are awarded based on competitive exams | 42 | |
3557678430 | centralized | power concentrated in the center, especially political power concentrated in the hands of one leader/emperor or executive body | 43 | |
3557685967 | decentralized | power dispersed among many different points, especially political power distributed among many different nobles/landowners/leaders/regions | 44 | |
3557695090 | scholar-gentry | aristocratic Chinese social class of landowning Confucian officials (Song China) | 45 | |
3557699919 | aristocrat | member of a social class thought to be superior (or noble) often by virtue of the family they were born into; often possess special political, religious and economic privileges, especially the owning of large amounts of land | 46 | |
3557710868 | ideology | overall system of beliefs, values and goals that make up the worldview of an individual or a group (political, religious, economic, social) | 47 | |
3557718642 | institution | important, formal organization of individuals in a civilization working for a common purpose; (governments, churches, universities, corporations) | 48 | |
3557726059 | empire | a state which rules over a great amount of territory | 49 | |
3557728854 | feudalism | decentralized socio-political organization created by nobles exchanging land for formal oaths of service and protection; especially with strong militaristic values and an elite class of specialized warriors (W. Europe - 800CE-1000CE; late Zhou China, Postclassical Japan) | 50 | |
3557748257 | orthodox | conforming to the central, authoritative beliefs, especially with regard to religion | 51 | |
3557752697 | social class | ranking in society denoting privileges and restrictions, often arising from wealth, birth and/or occupation | 52 | |
3557759170 | caste | refers to a sharply rigid class system based on heredity with little to no chance of mobility (India) | 53 | |
3557766176 | hierarchy | ranking system of individuals of a few with elite standing and more with lesser standing (i.e. a triangular structure; ex. political/military/church/social hierarchies) | 54 | |
3557782129 | consolidate (as in territory) | to join together securely into one whole (ex. establishing full power over conquered lands and making them fully a part of the original state) | 55 | |
3557790107 | assimilate (as in peoples) | to absorb a group into a culture; a group that is assimilated adopts many if the traits of another culture | 56 | |
3557796104 | manufacturing | the making of goods by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale; often involved the use of techniques or technologies that are advanced for the time (ex. the production of silk in China or cotton in India) | 57 | |
3557808616 | diffusion | the spreading of features from one culture to another, as in the spread of religions or technologies (ex. the diffusion of Buddhism from India to E & SE Asia) | 58 | |
3557821169 | coercive labor system | an institution in which workers are compelled to work by force, intimidation, or authority, often against their will (ex. serfdom, slavery) | 59 | |
3557828929 | regional | an area divided into fully or partially autonomous (independent) areas or states; often the result of geographic barriers (ex. desert, mountains, jungle), diversity or distance (ex. India) | 60 | |
3557842260 | legitimize | to make lawful, to make acceptable, or to justify; can refer to the justification for a particular government or ruler or to establishing a belief system as acceptable (ex. the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven legitimized Chinese dynasties) | 61 | |
3557854667 | commercial | engaged in trade or pertaining to trade and the exchange of goods and services. A commercial class is involved directly (a merchant) or indirectly (a banker) in trade. A commercial policy is intended to impact trade | 62 | |
3557873448 | caliphate | refers to the area of governed by a caliph or to the office of the caliph, a political and religious leader in Islam. Historically, the caliphate refers to the Muslim empire, governed by the last caliph that lasted from the death of Muhammad to the murder of the last caliph by the Mongols | 63 | |
3557893729 | demographic | an important characteristic or statistic of a human population, as in death rate, migration, religious, or racial composition, etc. | 64 | |
3557905429 | mystical | a belief system in which there is direct connection between a person's soul and God or the ultimate reality; especially a system which disregards orthodox beliefs in favor of a more intuitive, possible ecstatic, religious experience (ex. Sufism) | 65 | |
3557919827 | animistic | the belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects, such as rivers, trees, or mountains, and phenomena, such as storms or floods (ex. Central Africa in the postclassical age) | 66 | |
3557931975 | rationalism | reliance on the human ability to reason as the best guide for belief and action. Rationalist philosophies focus on the use of reason (as opposed to faith, tradition or authority) to understand the world and morality; rationalism in religion is the reliance on resin as the best way to understand doctrine | 67 | |
3557950333 | full attention | you must be able to give your full attention to whatever you are memorizing | 68 | |
3557953173 | chunking | your brain wants things to be in sets of 3 or 4; look for patterns, familiar elements, or other ways to break the material into groups of 3 or 4 familiar elements (if possible) | 69 | |
3557973868 | RAGE | R-religion; A-artistic; G-geographic; E-economic | 70 | |
3557973869 | SPIT | S-social; P-political; I-intellectual; T-technological | 71 | |
3557973870 | IKEA | I- interest; K-knowledge; E-emotion; A-audience | 72 | |
3557973871 | COKE | C-credible; O-omitted; K-known; E-exaggerate | 73 | |
3558021129 | STUDY THE ESSAY SKILLS | additional doc; POV; DBQ; analysis | 74 |
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