AP World History Bank Five
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| 240473230 | Diocletian | Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. | 0 | |
| 240473231 | Bread and Circuses | A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems. | 1 | |
| 240473232 | Goths | An array of Germanic peoples, pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome, upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people. | 2 | |
| 240473233 | legalism | A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. | 3 | |
| 240473234 | assimilation | The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society, and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it. | 4 | |
| 240473235 | Huns | large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses, herding cattle, sheep, and horses as well as hunting. | 5 | |
| 240473236 | Tang Revival | The Sui Dynasty and its successor whom this is named after restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han, extending control along the silk route as far as the Tien Shan mountain range and the arid Ferghana basin. Trade flourished and China finally reached its western limits when its forces were defeated by the imperial armies of the Muslim Abbasid Empire at the Talas River | 6 | |
| 240473237 | Yellow Turban | A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would begin with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed, it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks. | 7 |
