4288457119 | Rock and Pillar Edicts | Buddist scripts put on rocks and pillars throughout Mauryan Empire under Ashoka's orders | 0 | |
4288457120 | Arabic Numarals | numbers we use today (123456789), invented by Gupta Empire but were diffused to the Arabs | 1 | |
4288457121 | Han Dynasty | dynasty after Qin, Founded by Liu Bang, 400 years, established centralized government | 2 | |
4288457122 | Delian League | alliance between many Greek city states created by Athens under Pericles | 3 | |
4288457123 | Hellanism | culture, lifestyle, and ideas of Classical Greece | 4 | |
4288457124 | Patricians | Roman landowning noblemen | 5 | |
4288457125 | Plebians | Roman commoners | 6 | |
4288457126 | Twelve Tables of Rome | like The Ten Commandments for the Romans, basis for the US Bill of Rights | 7 | |
4288457127 | First Triumvirate | senate weakened; Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar took power | 8 | |
4288457128 | Second Triumvirate | formed after death of Caesar; Octavius, Marc Antony, and Lepidus | 9 | |
4288457129 | Pax Romana | golden age of Roman Empire, peace and prosperity | 10 | |
4288457130 | Paganism | any polytheistic religeon | 11 | |
4288457131 | Christianity | Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, followers believe he was the son of god and was ressurected, follow mainly the new testamate | 12 | |
4288457132 | Edict of Milan | Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire | 13 | |
4288457133 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion before Islam | 14 | |
4288457134 | Confusianism | follows the teachings founded by Confucius, philosophy and ethics, was developed by Mencius. | 15 | |
4288457135 | Daoism / Taoism | follows the teachings of Lao-tzu, humility and religious piety | 16 | |
4288457136 | Polythiesm | a religion which believes in more than one god | 17 | |
4288457137 | Legalism | Strict legal system, must follow authority no matter what or else harsh punishment | 18 | |
4288457138 | Buddism | follows the teachings of Budda, karma, started in India and later spread to China | 19 | |
4288457139 | Judaism | first monotheistic religeon | 20 | |
4288457140 | Theravada and Mahayana | two different sects of Buddism | 21 | |
4288457141 | Mauryan Empire | Empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya, modern day India (but not a substantial part in the South) and Pakistan, unification of many smaller Aryan kingdoms | 22 | |
4288457142 | Chandragupta Maurya | founded Mauryan Empire | 23 | |
4288457143 | Ashoka Maurya (or just Ashoka) | King of Mauryan Empire, Buddist, took it to its greatest heights, made it powerful and wealthy from trading silk, cotton, and elephants to Mesopotamia and Eastern Roman Empire | 24 | |
4288457144 | Chandra Gupta the Great | Revived Mauryan Empire as Gupta Empire | 25 | |
4288457145 | Gupta Empire | successor of Mauryan Empire, enjoyed relative peace, art and science, fell solely because of invasion by the White Huns | 26 | |
4288457146 | Great Wall of China | Wall that protected China from Mongols, started by Qin dynasty each dynasty ending with the Ming added to the wall | 27 | |
4288457147 | Qin Shi Huang | first king of Qin dynasty (by far the shortest dynasty, ended a year after he died), standardized laws, currencies, writing, weights, and measures | 28 | |
4288457148 | Xiongnu | invaded China and Eastern Europe, mostly only successful in Europe, may have been Huns | 29 | |
4288457149 | Wu Ti | Emperor of Han dynasty, called the warrior emperor, defended against Huns, enlarged emperor in central Asia | 30 | |
4288457150 | Satrapies (singular = Satrap) | province in Aechimenid Persia | 31 | |
4288457151 | Great Royal Road | largest road in Persia, 1,600 miles from | 32 | |
4288457152 | Lydins | came up with coined money | 33 | |
4288457153 | Phonicians | created first Alphbet | 34 | |
4288457154 | Hebrews | first Monotheists | 35 | |
4288457155 | Athens | Greek city state, first democracy | 36 | |
4288457156 | Sparta | Greek city state, war based society | 37 | |
4288457157 | Persian Wars | All Greek City States vs. Persia; ended in stalemate after Greece won at Marathon and Salamis | 38 | |
4288457158 | Golden Age of Pericles | Golden age of Greece, after Persian war, Delian League, Philosophers | 39 | |
4288457159 | Socrates | Greek Philosopher, critic of Sophists, believed in questioning everything to, hopefully, figure out everything | 40 | |
4288457160 | Plato | Greek Philosopher, student of Socrates and wrote about Socrates, wrote The Republic (book), came up with non-democratic governing system involving a philosopher king | 41 | |
4288457161 | Aristotle | Greek Philosopher, student of Plato, questioned nature of human belief, thought, and knowlege | 42 | |
4288457162 | Homer | writer of The Iliad and The Oddesey | 43 | |
4288457163 | Peloponnesian War | war between Athens and Sparta | 44 | |
4288457164 | Macedonians | conquered Greece after Sparta won the Peloponnesian war, Alexander the great devoted huge empire | 45 | |
4288457165 | Alexander the Great | took Macedonian Empire to it's hieght | 46 | |
4288457166 | Punic Wars | Rome vs. Carthage, First ----- War: Rome conquers Sicely; Second ----- War: General Hannibal (Carthage) attacks Northern Italy, Rome invades Carthage thus forcing Hannibal back, Rome wins but Carthage is not destroyed; Third ----- War: Fifty years after last Punic War Rome destroys Carthage | 47 | |
4288457167 | Hannibal | General of Carthage during Punic War, on e of the greatest military geniuses of all time | 48 | |
4288457168 | Octavious | took power from rest of second triumvirate, became second emperor of Rome | 49 | |
4288457169 | Constantine | Emperor who legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire, moved capital to Byzantium, started as co-emperor but then overthrows the other emperor and reunites Rome | 50 | |
4288457170 | Constantinople | became capital of the Roman Empire in 340 C.E.; formerly called Byzantium; now called Istanbul | 51 | |
4288457171 | Diocletian | emperor who split the Roman Empire into two regions run by co-emperors, not yet separate empires | 52 | |
4288457172 | Wang Mang | interrupted Han dynasty with short Xin dynasty, Han dynasty is restored after but collapses soon after into several kingdoms | 53 | |
4288457173 | Julius Caesar | took power from rest of first triumvirate, became first emperor of Rome, murdered by senators | 54 |
AP World History Princeton Review Key Terms Section 2 Flashcards
Primary tabs
Need Help?
We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.
If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.
Need Notes?
While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!