8405034841 | Periplus maris erythraei | the sailing itinerary of the Red Sea | 0 | |
8405046761 | monsoons | Winds that governed sailing and shipping in the Indian Ocean | 1 | |
8405066409 | Rhapta | Principal commercial center of the east African coast (near modern Dar es Salaam in Tanzania) | 2 | |
8405095393 | China | Silk and porseline | 3 | |
8405099560 | Rome | Glass and gold | 4 | |
8405177473 | Buddhism | Establishment of monostaries on the trade route to protect pilgrims and allow communities to learn about this religion | 5 | |
8405220048 | Silk Roads | Merchants and travelers created an extensive network of trade routes that linked much of Eurasia and north Africa | 6 | |
8405273446 | Kashgar | The town that the two main branches come together in | 7 | |
8405294294 | Indonesia | To what country does Hinduism extend to? | 8 | |
8405310042 | Gang Ying | Chinese ambassador that embarked on a mission to distant western lands in 97 AD and proceeded as far mas Mesopotamia | 9 | |
8405356252 | raja | Sanskrit for "king" | 10 | |
8405418669 | Edict of Milan | Official document proclaiming the toleration of Christianity in the Roman empire | 11 | |
8405442116 | ermiticial monastic tradition | Relies on being a hermit | 12 | |
8405460420 | cenobitic monastic tradition | Relies on being part of a community | 13 | |
8405472458 | Nestorianism | Chinese belief about the nature of Christ; human person and divine person are in the same bodily vessel but are of different entities | 14 | |
8405539336 | Mani | Devout Mesopotamian Zoroastrian who drew upon the influences of Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Buddhism to develop a syncretic faith; imprisoned and died in chains | 15 | |
8405597494 | Manichaeism | Syncretic faith that upheld the teachings of the three prophets: Zoroaster, Jesus Christ, and Buddha; good and evil is 50/50 (dualism) and if one does not strive for the good, he or she can easily fall into darkness | 16 | |
8405727075 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | Peasant discontent during the late Han China dynasty fueled this immense uprising | 17 | |
8405754184 | sinicization | Nomads learn to read and write Chinese, take Chinese wives, take cultural elements, and even colonize parts of China | 18 | |
8405780228 | Daoism | Offered a way to find peace in a turbulent world as a religion. Many of the followers become the first alchemists when attempting to achieve immortality by mixing elixirs | 19 | |
8405821708 | Terrible Third Century | 26 Barracks emperors, empire too large, epidemics, debasement of coins | 20 | |
8405838392 | 26 Barracks emperors | Refers to the long line of assassinations of and conspiracies against the emperors | 21 | |
8405861610 | Tetrarchy | Diocletian in the West, Constantine in the East, a lieutenant in the West, and a lieutenant in the East | 22 | |
8405903732 | Diocletian | Emperor that attempted to deal with the crumbling empire by dividing the emperor into two administrative districts; skilled administrator that brought the armies under imperial control and strengthened the imperial currency | 23 | |
8405947459 | Constantine | Establishes new capital city in the east and converts to Christianity | 24 | |
8406012795 | Huns | Nomads that aggressively advance westward migration from their homeland in central Asia | 25 | |
8406031741 | Attila | Warrior king that organized the Huns into a virtually unstoppable military juggernaut | 26 | |
8406051547 | Odoacer | Germanic general that deposed Romulus Augustus, the last of the Roman western emperors | 27 | |
8406064215 | Byzantine empire | Eastern half of the Roman empire that survived for another millennium after the fall of the west | 28 | |
8406088795 | Theodosius | Emperor that made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire | 29 | |
8406100852 | Edict of Thessolonica | Doctrine that makes Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire | 30 | |
8406132548 | St. Augustine | Bishop of Hippo; converted to Christianity while studying in Italy and worked to reconcile Christianity with Greek and Roman philosophical traditions, especially Platonism, and to articulate Christianity in terms that were familiar and persuasive to the educated classes; "Confessions" and "City of God" | 31 | |
8406181219 | "City of God" | Work that promotes that Rome may not be what it's all about and there is a greater, more powerful place | 32 | |
8406206989 | Council of Nicea | Took up the difficult and contentious issue of Jesus' nature, proclaiming that he was both fully human and fully divine | 33 | |
8406245047 | patriarchs | Reside in Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch | 34 |
World History AP: Silk Roads Flashcards
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