Important AP World History Dates Flashcards
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| 13971117503 | 8000 BCE | Neolithic Revolution | 0 | |
| 13971120776 | 500s BCE | Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism | 1 | |
| 13971131170 | 221 BCE | Qin Dynasty unified China | 2 | |
| 13971136141 | 206 BCE-220 Ce | Han Dynasty in China | 3 | |
| 13971138398 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 4 | |
| 13971141125 | 476 CE | fall of Rome | 5 | |
| 13971144826 | 570 CE | Birth of Muhammed (Islam) | 6 | |
| 13971163553 | 1258 CE | Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate | 7 | |
| 13971172432 | 1271-1295 CE | Marco Polo's journeys | 8 | |
| 13971175366 | 1324 CE | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 9 | |
| 13971180364 | 1325-1349 CE | Ibn Battuta's travels | 10 | |
| 13971190970 | 1347-1348 CE | Bubonic plague in Europe | 11 | |
| 13971198432 | 1405-1433 CE | Zheng He's voyages | 12 | |
| 13971201258 | 1453 CE | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 13 | |
| 13971203733 | 1492 CE | Columbus/Reconquista of Spain | 14 | |
| 13971206815 | 1502 CE | first slaves to America | 15 | |
| 13971209320 | 1517 CE | Martin Luther/95 theses | 16 | |
| 13971211654 | 1521 CE | Cortez conquers the Aztecs | 17 | |
| 13971215373 | 1533 CE | Pizarro conquered the Incas | 18 | |
| 13971218007 | 1618-1648 CE | 30 years war | 19 | |
| 13971220554 | 1689 CE | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 20 | |
| 13971232709 | 1750s CE | Industrial Revolution begins in England | 21 | |
| 13971258469 | 1756-1763 CE | 7 years war/French and Indian War | 22 | |
| 13971267423 | 1776 CE | Declaration of Independence | 23 | |
| 13971271201 | 1789 CE | French Revolution | 24 | |
| 13971273171 | 1804 CE | Haitian Revolution | 25 | |
| 13971279738 | 1839-1860s CE | Opium Wars in China | 26 | |
| 13971301888 | 1848 CE | Marx & Engles' The Communist Manifesto | 27 | |
| 13971305108 | 1857 CE | Sepoy Mutiny | 28 | |
| 13971307585 | 1885 CE | Berlin Conference ( Scramble for Africa) | 29 | |
| 13971330075 | 1905 CE | Russo_Japanese War | 30 | |
| 13971334713 | 1910-1920 CE | Mexican Revolution | 31 | |
| 13971337403 | 1911 CE | Chinese Revolution | 32 | |
| 13971340265 | 1914-1918 CE | WWI | 33 | |
| 13971358547 | 1917 CE | Russian Revolution | 34 | |
| 13971360829 | 1929 CE | Start of Great Depression | 35 | |
| 13971364426 | 1931 CE | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 36 | |
| 13971379316 | 1939 CE | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 37 | |
| 13971382554 | 1945 CE | end of WWII | 38 | |
| 13971384368 | 1947 CE | Independence and partition of India - creation of Pakistan | 39 | |
| 13971386630 | 1948 CE | Creation of Israel | 40 | |
| 13971388434 | 1949 CE | Mao Zedong establishes communist China | 41 | |
| 13971392048 | 1950-1953 CE | Korean War | 42 | |
| 13971394305 | 1954 CE | Vietnam defeats France | 43 | |
| 13971396576 | 1959 CE | Cuban Revolution | 44 | |
| 13971396577 | 1962 CE | Cuban Missile Crisis | 45 | |
| 13971398851 | 1967 CE | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 46 | |
| 13971402781 | 1979 CE | Iranian Revolution | 47 | |
| 13971402822 | 1989 CE | Fall of Berlin Wall | 48 | |
| 13971404696 | 1991 CE | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 49 | |
| 13971410224 | 2001 CE | 9/11 Attacks | 50 |
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AP Literature - Poetry Terms Flashcards
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| 13456156515 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 13456156516 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love (ex. in Frankenstein when Victor talks to the clouds) | 1 | |
| 13456162604 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity but start with diff consonants (adds to the rhythm, internal rhyme) | 2 | |
| 13456164733 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 3 | |
| 13456167723 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 4 | |
| 13456167724 | Epigram | short poem or statement, a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation in a clever or amusing way | 5 | |
| 13456169669 | Fixed form | A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas (has a set way of writing it) | 6 | |
| 13456171657 | Iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 7 | |
| 13456175215 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 8 | |
| 13456175216 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 9 | |
| 13456175240 | Metaphysical conceit | An analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world (extended metaphor) | 10 | |
| 13456183111 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 11 | |
| 13456183112 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 12 | |
| 13456185341 | Pun | A play on words | 13 | |
| 13456185342 | Internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 14 | |
| 13456185343 | Rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 15 | |
| 13456186951 | Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 16 | |
| 13456188416 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 17 | |
| 13456188417 | Sestet | six line stanza | 18 | |
| 13456190871 | Speaker | the voice of the poem | 19 | |
| 13456190872 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 20 | |
| 13456192313 | Structure | the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or poem | 21 | |
| 13456194381 | Synechdoche | Uses a part to explain a whole ex. Lend me an ear. | 22 | |
| 13456196755 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 23 | |
| 13456202150 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 24 | |
| 13456203697 | Euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 25 | |
| 13456205842 | Foot | the rhythm of a poem based on its stressed and unstressed syllables | 26 | |
| 13456208134 | Iamb | Metric foot having two syllables (first unstressed, second stressed) | 27 | |
| 13456211908 | Direct metaphor | Directly compares two things with a verb such as "is" | 28 | |
| 13456213512 | Indirect metaphor | an implied comparison: ex: They were locked in a dark tomb of a cellar | 29 | |
| 13456217352 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 30 | |
| 13456217353 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase (ex. jumbo shrimp) | 31 | |
| 13456219652 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 32 | |
| 13456219653 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 33 | |
| 13456416065 | Haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature | 34 | |
| 13456416066 | Sestina | a poem with six seset stanzas (6 lines each) and a final tercet (3 lines), all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing tercet | 35 | |
| 13456436551 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 36 | |
| 13456437799 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the end of back-to-back lines of the quatrain at the end | 37 | |
| 13456454393 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 38 | |
| 13456454394 | Elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 39 | |
| 13456454395 | Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 40 | |
| 13456455821 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. | 41 | |
| 13456455822 | Narrative | Pa poem that tells a story and has a plot | 42 | |
| 13456459519 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 43 | |
| 13456459520 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 44 | |
| 13459048351 | Epithet | descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing, or a person that helps make its characteristics more prominent than they actually are | 45 | |
| 13459050324 | epitaph | phrase or statement in memory of someone who has died; inscription on a tombstone | 46 | |
| 13459052524 | epigraph | short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book to suggest a theme | 47 | |
| 13459057140 | enjambment | the running over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped (less singsongy, keeps the thought going) | 48 |
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