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12077333434Catal Huyuk, TurkeyBest Early example of early neolithic towns0
12077333435NomadsHunter-Gathers, travel from place to place1
12077333436PastroalistsBranch of agriculture, use herds to affect environment2
12077333437Silk RoadMost important land trading route3
12077333438Mespotamiathe land between the rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, on the Eastern part of the Fertile Cresent4
12077333439Kushan EmpireRegion in south africa5
12077333440Axum/EthiopiaKingdoms of sub-Saharan east Africa based on Christianity6
12077333441CuneiformA form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.7
12077333442ideographs (ideograms)Images that represent an idea, such as a heart representing love.8
12077333443Zhou, Qin, HanClassical Chinese dynasties9
12077333444Confucianism/ConfuciusConfucius was a scholar Confucianism stated that everybody had a role in society and they should behave/beware of hierarchy10
12077333445Xi'an/ Chang'anCapital of Han Dynasty11
12077333446Silk RoadMost important land trading route12
12077333447AshokaLeader of the Mauryan dynasty of India.13
12077333448HinduismA religion developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms14
12077333449Buddhisma religion based on the teachings of the Buddha that developed in India15
12077333450Chandragupta Mauryafounder of the Mauryan Empire16
12077333451Mauryan EmpireThis was the first centralized empire of India whose founder was Chandragupta Maurya.17
12077333452Gupta EmpireThe decentralized empire that emerged after the Mauryan Empire, and whose founder is Chandra Gupta.18
12077333453Zoroastrianismsystem of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster noun19
12077333454HellenismGreek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great.20
12077333455Punic WarsWars fought between Rome and Carthage21
12077333456Julius CaesarRoman general who became the republic's dictator22
12077333457ConstantineEmperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians23
12077333458DiocletianRoman emperor who divided the empire into a West and an East section.24
12077333459ByzantiumCity in eastern Roman Empire that eventually became constantonopal25
12077333460RomeCapital city of the Roman Empire26
12077333461ShintoismReligion located in Japan and related to Buddhism. Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship.27
12077333462Islam: MuhammadFrom Mecca; unified Arabia into a single religious policy under Islam28
12077333463CaliphA supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government29
12077333464Umayyadthe first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus30
12077333465Abbasid EmpireGolden age of Islam, capital in Baghdad,31
12077333466Battle of SiffinFirst Muslim civil war July 26- July 28th; negotiation led to fragmentation of Ali's party.32
12117200836Battle of TalasBattle between the Tang Dynasty and the Muslims. Muslims win the Battle and stop Chinese western expansion. Diffusion of culture and technology33
12117206555Karbalaa city in central Iraq, located about 100 km southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of 700,000 people.34
12117208545sunnisThe political division within Islam who supported the Umayyads. The split between Sunnis and the Shi'a is the most fundamental in the Islamic world.35
12117211600shi'athe branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad36
12117212946baghdadCapital of Abbasid dynasty located in Iraq near ancient Persian capital of Ctesiphon37
12117216649Seljuk TurksScary men (BLAHA: Are you kidding me?) Central Asian Turkic nomads who migrated to the Middle East on horses defeated the Byzantines (Eastern Rome) at the battle of manzikert in 1071 CE. Byzantines would never recover.38
12117219750ShrivijayaSrivijaya was an important centre for the expansion of Buddhism from the 8th to the 12th century. Srivijaya was the first unified kingdom to dominate much of Malay archipelago39
12117224508MalaccaPortuguese factory or fortified trade town located on the top of the Malayan peninsula; traditionally a center for trade among the southeastern Asian island.40
12117226075demakmost powerful of the trading states on north coast of Java; converted to Islam and served as a point of dissemination to other ports.41
12117228751Sundiatamember of the Keita clan;created a unified states that became the Mali Empire.42
12117230554Ibn BattutaArab traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records43
12117231790Mali EmpireLocated between the Senegal And niger rivers, the Mali empire broke away from Ghana control in the 13th century. It was a model of an Islamicized Sudanic kingdom. It's economy was agriculturally based. Timbuktu was the port city of mali with a population of 50,000.44
12117233237song hay empireThe Songhai Empire was a state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century. At its peak, it was one of the largest states in African history. The state is known by its historiographical name, derived from its leading ethnic group and ruling elite, the Songhai45
12117234987mansa musaMansa Musa was the tenth Mansa, which translates to "sultan", "conqueror", or "emperor", of the wealthy West African Mali Empire.46
12117237387Bantu MigrationWest african originated tribe that migrated to eastern and southern africa47
12117241309Byzantine Empireeastern half of Roman Empire following collapse of western half of old empire;retained Mediterranean culture,particularly Greek,later lost Palestine, Syria, and Egypt to Islam; capital at Constantinople.48
12117243733BelisariusFlavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century before.49
12117246100Kievan RusKievan Rus' was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Varangian Rurik dynasty.50
12117249151NovgorodThe first city founded by the Kievan Rus' as they traveled down Eastern Europe in the mid 9th century.51
12117250758kievKiev is the capital city of Ukraine, bisected by the Dnieper River and known for its religious architecture, secular monuments and history museums.52
12117252079Cyril and Methodiusthe cyrillic alphabet mainly used in eastern europe was created by these two men53
12117255087FeudalismA political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land54
12117260017ManorialismManorialism, also called manorial system, seignorialism, or seignorial system, political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord.55
12117261401serfsa peasant who is bound to the land they live on. Work the land in exchange for military protection and shelter.56
12117263232Carolinian DynastyRoyal house of Franks grew in strength during the 8th century, then Carolingians took over this monarchy which was based in northern France.57
12117265135Charles Martel(686-741) Carolingian monarch of Franks; responsible for defeating Muslims in battle of Tours in 732; ended Muslim threat to western Europe58
12117267931Charlemagne: First Holy Roman Empire emperor; Reunited western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire;59
12117271506Hanseatic Leaguean organization of cities in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia for the purpose of establishing a commercial alliance.60
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AP English Language and Composition Flashcards

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13998685454The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically.Allegory0
13998685455Word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.Antecedent1
13998685456Opposition or contrast of ideas through parallelism.Antithesis2
13998685457Early to bed and early to rise help make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. -Ben FranklinAphorism3
13998685458"Oh, Captain, my Captain, our fearful trip is done..."Apostrophe4
13998685459The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing.Colloquial/Colloquialism5
13998685460A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor.Conceit6
13998685461correctional facility = jail between jobs = unemployedEuphemism7
13998685462This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.Homily8
13998685463An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.Invective9
13998685464a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.Metonymy10
13998685465The exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.Anaphora11
13998685466An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookishPedantic12
13998685467one of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms.Prose13
13998685468The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words.Semantics14
13998685469A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion.Syllogism15
13998685470A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole.Synecdoche16
13998685471A brief witty statement.Epigram17
13998685472The omission of a word or several words.Ellipsis18
13998685473Attacking a speaker's character instead of to their argument.Ad Hominem19
13998685474Having an instructive purpose; intending to convey information to teach a lesson usually in a dry, pompous manner.Didactic20
13998685475An incorrect belief or supposition based on faulty data, defective evidence, or false information.Fallacy21
13998685476Excessive pride that often brings about one's fall.Hubris22
13998685477Repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginnings of wordsAlliteration23
13998685478A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity.Litotes24
13998685479A statement or idea that seems contradictory but is in fact true.Paradox25
13998685480A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.Non Sequitur26
13998685481A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.Anecdote27
13998685482Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group.Jargon28
13998685483Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.Dogmatic29
13998685484Having or showing zeal.Zealous30
13998685485Understood or implied without being stated.Tacit31
13998685486An allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one.Innuendo32
13998685487Displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed.Lackadaisical33
13998685488A type of parallelism in which elements are reversed. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."Chiasmus34
13998685489A sentence in which the subject and verb come at the front of the sentence.Loose Sentence35
13998685490A sentence in which the subject and verb come toward the end of the sentence.Periodic Sentence36
13998685491Strongly encourage or urge someone to do something.Exhort37
13998685492Caustic, bitter language--iterally means "to tear the flesh."Sarcasm38
13998685493A complete sentence.Independent Clause39
13998685494Includes a subordinate conjunction, such as because, while, etc.Dependent Clause40
13998685495A reference to something (e.g., a book, a movie, an historical event) that is presumed to be well known to the audience.Allusion41
13998685496A work that pokes fun human vices and follies in order to call attention to a larger problem.Satire42
13998685497A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.Parody43
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AP Literature - Allusions List 2 Flashcards

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14913179354Golden Calfan image of gold in the shape of a calf, made by Aaron in response to the Israelites' plea for a god while they awaited for Moses' return.0
14913184182Hobbitlikeresembling or befitting a hobbit.1
14913188451Holden Caulfieldthe protagonist and narrator of the story2
14913191476" It's Greek to Me"This expression was coined by Shakespeare, who used it literally in Julius Caesar3
14913191477JudasApostle who betrayed Jesus4
14913197870Kafkaesquecharacteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world.5
14913202921Land of LilliputThis is a fictional land in the story "Gulliver's Travels"6
14913207550Little Black Samboa children's book written by Helen Bannerman in 1899; the story of a little boy who has to sacrifice his clothes to tigers, but ends up outwitting them; the story has been considered controversial because of the word "Sambo," which has become a racial slur in America.7
14913207551LuciferSatan8
14913210954Manna from heavenAn unexpected benefit or assistance especially when it comes at the time when it is needed most.9
14913215102Mephistopheleandevilish or crafty10
14913218565Musea person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist - each of the nine goddesses, the daughter Zeus and Mnemosyne preside over the art and sciences.11
14913218566Oedipus complexaccording to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father12
14913224403Orwelliancharacteristic of the writings of George Orwell, especially with reference to his dystopian account of a future totalitarian state in Nineteen Eighty-Four13
14916791023Pandora's Boxa process that generates many complicated problems as the result of unwise interference in something14
14916791024Panglossianmarked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic15
14916796148pound of fleshinsistence on being repaid16
14916800281ProcrustesIn Greek mythology, he was a thief of Attica who placed anyone he captured on an iron bed. If the person was too tall he cut off whatever hung over; it too short, he stretched the person until he fit. "Procrustean bed" connotes a rigid standard to which exact conformity is enforced17
14916813259Carpe diemused to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future.18
14916822325Big Brothera person or organization exercising total control over people's lives.19
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Ap World History Vocab chapter 19 Flashcards

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8792052784Gunpowder Empiresrefers to large multiethnic states in southwest, central, and south Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control their territories0
8792052785TamerlaneA monogol-turkic ruler of the late 14 century set the stage for the rise of turkic empires. lead an army filled with nomadic invaders, invaded central asia and middle east. started the Ghazi Ideal1
8792052786ghazi ideala model for warrior life that blended the cooperative values of nomadic culture with the willingness to seve as a holy fighter for islam2
8792052787ottoman Empirewas the larges and most enduring of the islamic empires of this period. Lasted untill defeated by the allis in world war 13
8792052790bosporus straitthe only waterway linking the black sea with the meditarian sea4
8792052791topkapi palacea famous landmark, royal residence of the sultans, began construction during the reign of Mehmed 2.. In instanbul5
8792052792devshirmeA tax places by ottomans on the christians in the balkan area. they had to give one son to the government6
8792052793janissariesthey formed elite forces in the ottoman army."slaves of state"7
8792052795Viennathe main city in Austria, his armies were hammering at the gates of it. failed to take city twice, but they still sent trops their wich cause great fear. Ottomans expansion stopped here.8
8792052796RhodesLast crusader kingdoms before taken over by the Turks9
8792052801coffeehousesThey became centers for news. Mainly men10
8792052803viziersadvisers to the sulton11
8792052806battle of lepantoConflict between the spanish and the ottomans. After 1571 the ottoman navy won't be strong.12
8792052808safavidsTurkic group in Persia/ Iran. Shia muslims13
8792052809IsmailFirst safavid ruler14
8792052810shahismail was proclaimed it, it is equivalent to king or emperor. Title of the Safavid empire15
8792052811shah abbasruled over safavid empire at its height.16
8792052812IsfahanSafavids beaufiful capitol city, added broad avenues,parks,and numerous mosques and schools17
8792052813Strait HormuzOne fourth of the world's oil supply comes from here. from persian gult and arabian sea18
8792052814baburFirst Moogle Ruler19
8792052816delhithe capitol where akbar established and efficient government and a systen of fairly administrated laws.20
8792052817zamindarspeople who recieved land for collecting taxes for the mougles.21
8792052818sikhismMonothesitc religion of the 1400's. combination of Islam and Hinduism22
8792052819satithe ritual in which widows killed themselves by jumping on the funerall pyres of their husbands23
8792052820din-i-llahimonothestic religion that was a blend of hinduism, islam, christianity, and zoroastronism24
8792052821castev25
8792052822taj MahalA toumb for Shan Jahan's wife outside of Delhi26
8792052823shan Jahanbuilt the taj mahal, as a tomb for his wife.27
8792052824AurangzebLast of the great mougle rulesrs28
8792152803SAMARKANDan oasis town along the silk roads in central Asia; place where merchants & caravans found food, rest, lodging, and markets; became cosmopolitan center; conquered by the Mongols; During the rule of Timur Lane was the most influential captial city, a wealthy trading center known for decorated mosques and tombs.29
8792161853Mehmed IIConqueres the Byzantines30
8792172402SULEIMAN IThe greatest of the Ottoman rules. It expanded the most under him.31
8805712998AkbarGreatest Moogle ruler32
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AP World History ( Americas) Flashcards

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15558243120What led to the Mayans,Aztecs, and Incas?decline of Olmec and chain0
15558246039Earthern MoundsMississippi1
15558249306Who ruled in Miss.The Great Sun, (priests,nobles,farmers,hunters,artisans,slaves)2
15558255852In Miss. who hunted?Men hunted and women farmed3
15558258117What society did Miss. have?Matrillineal(woman's side)4
15558268128What led to the decline of miss.diseases and droughts5
15558269844Chacostone and clay6
15558270682Mesa verdesandstone7
15558272621MayanCivilization8
15558274789Gov?City States,most rulers were men9
15558278947Why did they fight?tribute and human sacrifices10
15558286875People were required to pay taxes(crops or labor)true11
15558288274no centralized govtrue12
15558292510AztecsCivilization13
15558296475What did they develop to ensure dominance?tributary system14
15558302602Conquered people were forced to surrender land,perform military service, and surrender landstrue15
15558303741city states into provincestrue16
15558305544What kind of gov did they have?theocracy(religious leaders)17
15558308574EmperorGreat Speaker18
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