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AP World History Geography Flashcards

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14901610507Eastern HemisphereEast of the Prime Meridian0
14901626091Western HemisphereWest of the Prime Meridian1
14901633316Northern HemisphereNorth of the Equator2
14901638531Southern Hemispheresouth of the equator3
14901646056Pacific OceanOcean on the West Coast of the US4
14901652798Atlantic OceanOcean on the East Coast of the US5
14901667102Indian OceanOcean south of India6
14901681910Arctic OceanOcean surrounding the North Pole7
14901686423South China Seaa tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons8
14901715521Sea of JapanBody of water east of the Korean Peninsula and west of Japan.9
14901719062Baltic Seaa sea in northern Europe10
14901725698Black Seaa sea between Europe and Asia11
14901742514Caribbean Seaan arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America12
14901745601Mediterranean SeaThis body of Water separates Europe and Africa13
14901751841Indian Ocean Tradeconnected to Europe, Africa, and China.; worlds richest maritime trading network and an area of rapid Muslim expansion.14
14901755166Silk RoadAn ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea extending some 6,440 km (4,000 mi) and linking China with the Roman Empire. Marco Polo followed the route on his journey to Cathay.15
14901759561Trans-Saharan Traderoute across the sahara desert. Major trade route that traded for gold and salt, created caravan routes, economic benefit for controlling dessert, camels played a huge role in the trading16
14901766462Sub-Saharan TradeThis trade connected to the Indian Ocean trade along the eastern coast of Africa, which in turn connected the people of sub-Saharan Africa to trade centers in Cairo and India17
14901789449Atlantic Trade3 way trade btwn Europe America/West Indies and Africa; revolved around slavery(slavery, cash crops, goods for slave societies)18
14901795636QingTibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia19
14901802836RussianSiberia20
14901814515OttomanBalkans (Southeastern Europe21

AP world history chapter 34 Flashcards

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13809559012BangladeshFounded as an independent nation in 1972; formerly East Pakistan.0
13809559013Indira GandhiDaughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. She was also prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977.1
13809559014Corazon AquinoFirst president of the Philippines in the post-Marcos era of late 1980s; she served from 1986 to 1992; Aquino, whose husband was assassinated by thugs in the pay of the Marcos regime, was one of the key leaders in the popular movement that toppled the dictator.2
13809559015Jawaharlal NehruOne of Gandhi's disciples; governed India after independence (1947); committed to program of social reform and economic development; preserved civil rights and democracy.3
13809559016Benazir BhuttoTwice prime minister of Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s; first ran for office to avenge her father's execution by the military clique then in power.4
13809559017Religious RevivalismAn approach to religious belief and practice that stresses the literal interpretation of texts sacred to the religion in question and the application of their precepts to all aspects of social life; increasingly associated with revivalist movements in a number of world religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism.5
13809559018Primary Productsfood or industrial crops with a high demand in industrialized economies; their prices tend to fluctuate widely6
13809559019neocolonial economyIndustrialized nations' continued dominance of the world economy; ability of the industrialized nations to maintain economic colonialism without political colonialism7
13809559020Gamal Abdel NasserTook power in Egypt following a military coup in 1952; enacted land reforms and used state resources to reduce unemployment; ousted Britain from the Suez Canal zone in 19568
13809559021Free Officers MovementMilitary nationalist movement in Egypt founded in the 1930s; often allied with the Muslim Brotherhood; led coup to seize Egyptian government from khedive in July 1952.9
13809559022Anwar SadatSuccessor to Gamal Abdul Nasser as ruler of Egypt; acted to dismantle costly state programs; accepted peace treaty with Israel in 1973; opened Egypt to investment by Western nations.10
13809559023Hosni MubarakPresident of Egypt since 1981, succeeding Anwar Sadat and continuing his polices of cooperation with the West.11
13809559024Green RevolutionIntroduction of improved seed strains, fertilizers, and irrigation as a means of producing higher yields in crops such as rice, wheat, and corn; particularly important in the densely populated countries of Asia.12
13809559025Ayatollah KhomeiniReligious ruler of Iran following revolution of 1979 to expel the Pahlavi shah of Iran; emphasized religious purification; tried to eliminate Western influences and establish purely Islamic government.13
13809559026HomelandsUnder apartheid, areas in South Africa designated for ethnolinguistic groups within the black African population; such areas tend to be overpopulated and poverty-stricken.14
13809559027African National CongressBlack political organization within South Africa; pressed for end to policies of apartheid; sought open democracy leading to black majority rule; until the 1990s declared illegal in South Africa15
13809559028Nelson MandelaLong-imprisoned leader of the African National Congress party; worked with the ANC leadership and F.W. De Klerk's supporters to dismantle the apartheid system from the mid-1980s onward; in 1994, became the first black prime minister of South Africa after the ANC won the first genuinely democratic elections in the country's history.16
13809559029Steve BikoAn organizer of black consciousness movement in South Africa, in opposition to apartheid; murdered while in police custody17
13809559030F.W. de KlerkWhite South African prime minister in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Working with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress, de Klerk helped to dismantle the apartheid system and opened the way for a democratically elected government that represented all South Africans for the first time.18
13809567104Walter SisuluBlack African leader who, along with Nelson Mandela, opposed apartheid system in South Africa19
13809571336Muslim BrotherhoodEgyptian religious and nationalist movement founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928; became an example for later fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world.20

AP Psychology Chapter 10: Thinking and Language Flashcards

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13901915376Cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating0
13901917649conceptsa mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
13901929885prototypesa mental image or best example of a category2
13901933365Algorithma methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Slow but accurate.3
13901940357Heuristica simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently. Fast but error-prone.4
13901974823availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common5
13901993005belief biasthe tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid6
13902004877belief perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited7

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14696870868Acerca deabout0
14696870869la fuentefountain1
14696870870aparercerto appear2
14696870871pararto stop3
14696870872averiguarto find out4
14696870873ambostogether5
14696870874la citadate6
14696870875el concursocontest7
14696870876bienestarwell-being8
14696870877destacarto stand out9
14696870878los logrosachievements10
14696870879los datosfacts, information11
14696870880los seres humanoshuman beings12

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