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Ap World History Geography Flashcards
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| 14725591361 | Nile River |  | 0 | |
| 14725591362 | Indus River |  | 1 | |
| 14725591363 | Huang He |  | 2 | |
| 14725591364 | Tigris River |  | 3 | |
| 14725591365 | Euphrates River |  | 4 | |
| 14725591366 | Amazon River |  | 5 | |
| 14725591367 | Atlantic Ocean |  | 6 | |
| 14725591368 | Pacific Ocean |  | 7 | |
| 14725591369 | Indian Ocean |  | 8 | |
| 14725591370 | Mediterranean Sea |  | 9 | |
| 14725591371 | Black Sea |  | 10 | |
| 14725591372 | Red Sea |  | 11 | |
| 14725591373 | Caspian Sea |  | 12 | |
| 14725591374 | Arabian Sea |  | 13 | |
| 14725591375 | Himalayas |  | 14 | |
| 14725591376 | Alps |  | 15 | |
| 14725591377 | Caucasus Mountains |  | 16 | |
| 14725591378 | Ural Mountains |  | 17 | |
| 14725591379 | Andes |  | 18 | |
| 14725591380 | Hindu-Kush | 19 | ||
| 14725591381 | Gobi Desert |  | 20 | |
| 14725591382 | Sahara Desert |  | 21 | |
| 14725591383 | Kalahari Desert |  | 22 | |
| 14725591384 | Arabian Peninsula |  | 23 | |
| 14725591385 | Korean Peninsula |  | 24 | |
| 14725591386 | Caribbean |  | 25 | |
| 14725591387 | Middle East |  | 26 | |
| 14725591388 | South Asia |  | 27 | |
| 14725591389 | Southeast Asia |  | 28 | |
| 14725591390 | Indonesia |  | 29 | |
| 14725591391 | Philippines |  | 30 | |
| 14725591392 | Japan |  | 31 | |
| 14725591393 | Canton |  | 32 | |
| 14725591394 | Baghdad |  | 33 | |
| 14725591395 | Batavia |  | 34 | |
| 14725591396 | Mecca |  | 35 | |
| 14725591397 | Malacca (Melaka) |  | 36 | |
| 14725591398 | Constantinople/Istanbul |  | 37 | |
| 14725591399 | Cordoba |  | 38 | |
| 14725591400 | Jerusalem |  | 39 | |
| 14725591401 | Tenochtitlan |  | 40 | |
| 14725591402 | Timbuktu |  | 41 | |
| 14725591403 | Beijing |  | 42 | |
| 14725591404 | Kilwa |  | 43 | |
| 14725591405 | Calcutta |  | 44 | |
| 14725591406 | Jenne |  | 45 | |
| 14725591407 | Moscow |  | 46 | |
| 14725591408 | South China Sea |  | 47 | |
| 14725591409 | Strait of Gibraltar |  | 48 | |
| 14725591410 | Bering Sea |  | 49 | |
| 14725591411 | Sea of Japan |  | 50 | |
| 14725591412 | Bosporus |  | 51 | |
| 14725591413 | Persian Gulf |  | 52 | |
| 14725591414 | Niger River |  | 53 | |
| 14725591415 | Tiber River |  | 54 | |
| 14725591416 | Ganges River |  | 55 | |
| 14725591417 | Yangtze River |  | 56 | |
| 14725591418 | Pyrenees Mountains |  | 57 | |
| 14725591419 | Indian Subcontinent |  | 58 | |
| 14725591420 | Swahili Coast |  | 59 | |
| 14725591426 | Sub-Saharan Africa | Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara. |  | 60 |
| 14725591421 | Iberian Peninsula |  | 61 | |
| 14725591422 | Sumatra |  | 62 | |
| 14725591423 | Malaysian Peninsula |  | 63 | |
| 14725591424 | Crimean Peninsula |  | 64 | |
| 14725591427 | Anatolia | A large peninsula at the western edge of Asia; also called Asia Minor |  | 65 |
| 14725591425 | Central Asia Steppes |  | 66 |
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AP World History Chapter 4 (India) Flashcards
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| 7393423397 | Alexaner the Great | -took over part of India -conquered Persian empire -attempted to combine Greek and Persian cultures | 0 | |
| 7393428898 | Caste System | -5 Varnas (sections) -many subclasses (Jati) 1. Warriors (Kshatriyas) 2. Priests (Brahmans) 3. Traders/Farmers (Vaisyas) 4. Common Laborers (Sudras) 5. Untouchables -(Buddism didn't like the caste system) -mobility??? -promoted tolerance??? | 1 | |
| 7393438184 | Mauryan | -Chandragupta (NOT GUPTA) -Ashoka | 2 | |
| 7393439549 | Chandragupta | -large armies -bureaucracy -autocratic | 3 | |
| 7393441407 | autocratic | -relating to a ruler who has absolute power | 4 | |
| 7393442570 | Ashoka | -extended territory -converted to Buddism -trade -grandson of Chandragupta | 5 | |
| 7393444316 | Gupta | -smaller territory -negotiated and intermarried with local ruling families | 6 | |
| 7393446420 | Political Institutions (India) | -regionalism and diversity -religion didn't stress politics -preist became source of authority (Hindu Preists) | 7 | |
| 7393453194 | Hinduism | -no single founder -multiple approaches -flexible -reincarnation -Ethics: Dharma and Karma -reinforced caste system | 8 | |
| 7393455941 | Buddism | -4 noble truths -Nirvana -equal opportunity -no priests -monasteries -monks/missionaries spread | 9 | |
| 7393459870 | Bodhisattvas | buddhist saint | 10 | |
| 7393460733 | Arts/Sciences (India) | -literature -drama -science -math (decimals, zero, number systems) -astronomy -medicine -scripture -painting -architecture (stupas) | 11 | |
| 7393464077 | Family Life (India) | -Patriarchal -children were spoiled and encouraged to imagine and play -once children were old enough to work they were put to work -served s economic unit | 12 | |
| 7393466186 | Economy (India) | -trade -merchants were treated better than in China -still agricultural at base | 13 | |
| 7393468607 | Buddha | -creator of Buddhism -found enlightenment under bo tree -taught that enlightenment can be achieved by abandoning desires for all earthly things | 14 | |
| 7393474257 | Sanskrit | -sacred and classical Indian language | 15 | |
| 7393476359 | Indra | -chief deity of the Aryans | 16 | |
| 7393477582 | dharma | -caste position and career determined by a person's birth -Hindu culture requires that one accept one's social position and perform occupation to best of ones abilities in order to have a better situation the next life | 17 | |
| 7393483859 | Vishnu | -the brahman god of sacrifice -later hindu -widely worshipped | 18 | |
| 7393485806 | Shiva | -hindu -god of destruction and reproduction worshipped as personification of cosmic forces pf change | 19 | |
| 7393488466 | Nirvana | -Buddhist state of enlightenmant or tranquillity | 20 | |
| 7393490509 | Stupas | -stone shrines built to house pieces of bone or hair and personal possessions said to be the relic of the Buddha | 21 |
AP Language and Composition // Terminology Flashcards
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| 14428069842 | alliteration | repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 14428071384 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event | 1 | |
| 14428072885 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 14428075342 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses ex. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, | 3 | |
| 14428076619 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 14428077670 | annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 14470913568 | antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 14470914953 | antimetabole | repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 7 | |
| 14470916146 | antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 14470923873 | aphorism | a short astute statement of a general truth ex. actions speak louder than words | 9 | |
| 14470924747 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun ex. my mom, WHO IS A NURSE, lives close to the hospital. | 10 | |
| 14470926747 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period | 11 | |
| 14470929335 | argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 14470935400 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 14470938533 | assertion | an emphatic statement or declaration | 14 | |
| 14470942023 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 14470946134 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses ex. I came, I saw, I conquered | 16 | |
| 14470952121 | attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 14470954110 | audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 14470962241 | authority | a reliable, respected source; someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 14470966407 | bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 20 | |
| 14470971594 | cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source ex. "according to..." | 21 | |
| 14470972495 | claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 14470973666 | close reading | a careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary or structural elements of a text | 23 | |
| 14470980000 | colloquialism | an informal or conversational use of language | 24 | |
| 14470985278 | common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions | 25 | |
| 14470986655 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 14470987577 | concession | a reluctant acknowledgement or yielding | 27 | |
| 14470989417 | connotation | that which is implied by a word as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 28 | |
| 14470991413 | context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 29 | |
| 14470994461 | coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and or but | 30 | |
| 14471011565 | counterargument | a challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 14471016524 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 32 | |
| 14655375711 | diction | word choice | 33 | |
| 14655375712 | documentation | bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 34 | |
| 14655376240 | elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 35 | |
| 14655376413 | epigram | A brief witty statement. | 36 | |
| 14655376685 | ethos | a greek term referring to the character of a person | 37 | |
| 14655377606 | figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 38 |
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| 14751863891 | ameliorate | to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming | 0 | |
| 14751865824 | aplomb | (n.) poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity | 1 | |
| 14751867393 | bombastic | (adj.) pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas | 2 | |
| 14751868558 | callow | (adj.) without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers | 3 | |
| 14751871023 | drivel | (n.) saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; (v.) to let saliva flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly | 4 | |
| 14751876115 | epitome | (n.) a summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality | 5 | |
| 14751882404 | exhort | (v.) to urge strongly, advise earnestly | 6 | |
| 14751884840 | ex officio | by virtue of holding a certain office | 7 | |
| 14751889822 | infringe | to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds | 8 | |
| 14751890973 | ingratiate | (v.) to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical or derogatory sense) | 9 | |
| 14751894972 | interloper | one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder | 10 | |
| 14751897715 | intrinsic | (adj.) belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part | 11 | |
| 14751901561 | inveigh | (v.) to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval | 12 | |
| 14751903205 | lassitude | (n.) weariness of body or mind, lack of energy | 13 | |
| 14751905453 | millennium | (n.) a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy | 14 | |
| 14751906615 | occult | (adj.) secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; mysterious, magical, uncanny; (v.) to hide, cover up; eclipse; (n.) matters involving the supernatural | 15 | |
| 14751909647 | permeate | (v.) to spread through, penetrate, soak through | 16 | |
| 14751911129 | precipitate | (v.) to fall as moisture; to cause or bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height, to give distinct form to; (adj.) characterized by excessive haste; (n.) moisture; the product of an action or process | 17 | |
| 14751915449 | stringent | (adj.) strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste | 18 | |
| 14751917898 | surmise | (v.) to think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess; (n.) likely idea that lacks definite proof | 19 |
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