AP World History Strayer Chapter 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 12128231143 | Venus Figurines | *Definition:* Paleolithic statuette portraying a woman. *Significance:* Shows in the paleolithic era people might have used women to tell time through birth, pregnancy, marriage, and death. Showed they understood differences and maybe had more permanent settlements than previously thought. |  | 0 |
| 12128231144 | Dreamtime | *Definition:* Recounting of the beginning of things through ancestral beings (how it all started/create). *Significance:* Shows how people believed things came to be and that they were intelligent beings. |  | 1 |
| 12128231145 | Clovis Culture | *Definition:* Prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture, named for distinct stone tools. *Significance:* It was one of the first clearly defined people in the Americas. They were hunters of large mammals. Significant because it shows what people relied on for food in the Americas. |  | 2 |
| 12128231146 | MegaFaunal Extinction | *Definition:* The destruction of large or relatively large animals of a particular time period. *Significance:* This occurred at the end of the Last Ice Age. Climate change caused it to happen. It was a change in food for people and was one of the causes of the Agricultural Revolution. |  | 3 |
| 12128231147 | Austronesian Migration | *Definition:* Expansion of a group of people (Austronesians) from Asia to the Pacific islands. *Significance:* It was the last phase of the great human Migration. It was a waterborne migration that spread their language fast and far. Domesticated plants and animals were also taken. |  | 4 |
| 12128231148 | "The Original Affluent Society" | *Definition:* The gathering and Hunting people where people worked fewer hours to meet needs. Meaning they had more leisure time. *Significance:* Shows that the thought that hunters and gatherers weren't always at the point of starvation. They had time for leisure because they only needed to meet material needs. |  | 5 |
| 12128231149 | Shamans | *Definition:* Person regarded as having access to the world of good and evil spirits (using drugs). *Significance:* They had a modern "priest" or "pope" to tell them what was going on. Used drugs to get to this state. Shows social capability. |  | 6 |
| 12128231150 | Trance Dance | *Definition:* Ritual where shamans dance and sing special medicine songs. *Significance:* These dances provided supernatural potency. This from god himself. Shows the way they connect themselves to their beliefs. |  | 7 |
| 12128231151 | Paleolithic Settling Down | *Definition:* The process of people moving toward permanent settlements at the end of the Last Ice Age. *Significance:* Caused the Agricultural Revolution and moved people to evolving socially. Through becoming more of a community and city like area. |  | 8 |
| 12128231152 | Gobekli Tepe | *Definition:* Massive Limestone pillars carved in a T-shape in a set of circle/rings for a ceremony. World's oldest temple. Located in Turkey. *Significance:* Revolutionized how archaeologists thought about the Stone Age. Showed that people settled down for longer than expected. |  | 9 |
| 12128231153 | Fertile Crescent | *Definition:* Region containing moist and fertile land of Western Asia. *Significance:* The start of Agriculture and domestication of plants and animals. One of the first places big civilizations were made because of its land. |  | 10 |
| 12128231154 | Teosinte | *Definition:* Mountain grass (ancestor of corn) in Southern Mexico. *Significance:* One of the first sustainable crops grown in the Americas during the Agricultural Revolutions. |  | 11 |
| 12128231155 | Diffusion Migration | *Definition:* Spreading of something more widely (people). *Significance:* First reason of globalization of agriculture. Spread of agricultural techniques, plants, and animals. |  | 12 |
| 12128231156 | Bantu Migration | *Definition:* Migrations of Bantu people. *Significance:* Bantu people introduced new things to the people in the area they moved to: iron working, new crops and techniques, and their culture. Permanent home structure. |  | 13 |
| 12128231157 | Ishi | *Definition:* Name means "Person". A man from one of the last hunter/gatherers in California. *Significance:* People learned a lot from his culture. His people were forced to isolate themselves, but were found anyway. |  | 14 |
| 12128231158 | Banpo | *Definition:* Archaeological site of an ancient village. China *Significance:* Showed housing and domesticated foods and animals. Shows the technological innovation during this time period. |  | 15 |
| 12128231159 | "Secondary Products Revolution" | *Definition:* Innovations in Eurasian society and culture. *Significance:* Involved new uses for domesticated animals: milk and harvest animals and to ride them. |  | 16 |
| 12128231160 | Pastoral Societies | *Definition:* Nomadic group of people who travel with herds of domesticated animals (food source). *Significance:* Moved with the seasons and animals and created powerful military confederations. The domesticated animals made easier traveling on forbidding environments. |  | 17 |
| 12128231161 | *Definition:* Large settlement. One of the first cities. In Anatolia/ Turkey *Significance:* Example of an early town where transition to a fully settled existence was achieved. Food from agriculture and social/gender equality in communities. | Catalhuyuk |  | 18 |
| 12128231162 | Chiefdoms | *Definition:* Form of hierarchical political organization society based on kinship with a formal leader. *Significance:* Cultural evolution. Where people began giving different "classes". Not through fear and violence but through kinship/gifts/charisma. | 19 |
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AP World History Cities Flashcards
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| 4726205798 | Canton (China) |  | 0 | |
| 4726208797 | Baghdad |  | 1 | |
| 4726213381 | Batavia |  | 2 | |
| 4726213833 | Mecca |  | 3 | |
| 4726214883 | Malacca |  | 4 | |
| 4726218072 | Constantinople/Istanbul |  | 5 | |
| 4726223740 | Cordoba |  | 6 | |
| 4726225766 | Tours |  | 7 | |
| 4726228164 | Jerusalem |  | 8 | |
| 4726229002 | Tenochtitlan |  | 9 | |
| 4726229717 | Timbuktu |  | 10 | |
| 4726232883 | Beijing |  | 11 | |
| 4726233216 | Kilwa |  | 12 | |
| 4726237849 | Calcutta |  | 13 | |
| 4726242069 | Jenne |  | 14 | |
| 4726247600 | Moscow |  | 15 |
AP WORLD HISTORY PERIOD 4 KEY TERMS Flashcards
Period 4 important people/places/events
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| 10573200519 | age of reason | An era during which rational thought is prominent or esteemed, especially the Enlightenment in western Europe. | 0 | |
| 10573200520 | Akbar the Great | a ruler of the Mughal empire from 1542-1605, he pursued tolerance for all religions and cultures; he expanded the empire and led the golden age of the Mughal empire | 1 | |
| 10573200521 | Atlantic slave trade | took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries; most slaves transported to the new world | 2 | |
| 10573200522 | John calvin | founder of the Christian Protestant sect called Calvinism which develops Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone and emphasizes the grace of God and the doctrine of predestination. | 3 | |
| 10573200523 | Colombian exchange | the exchange of plants. animals, diseases, and technologies between the peoples of the Americas and the old world and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization | 4 | |
| 10573200524 | creoles | In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. | 5 | |
| 10573200525 | Dutch East India company | established in 1602; was the first company to issue stock and considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world; established to carry out colonial trade and activities in Asia | 6 | |
| 10573200526 | encomienda system | a grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies; it provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindias | 7 | |
| 10573200527 | English bill of rights | established in 1689; ensured the power and rights of parliament (therefore taking away from the power of the monarchy and ensuring the power of the parliament) | 8 | |
| 10573200528 | enlightenment | a philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and that were just as scientific as the laws of physics | 9 | |
| 10573200529 | european exploration | started with the Spanish expanding into the new world, after this happened the race for land and the extortion of resources occurred; European countries soon set off around the world colonizing land and getting rich at the expense of their conquered peoples | 10 | |
| 10573200530 | Gutenberg's printing press | improved the Chinese printing press; Johannes Gutenberg made a printing press that efficiently; device applies pressure to a print medium that rests on an inked surface made of movable type, thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press are widely regarded as among the most influential events in human history, revolutionizing the way people conceive and describe the world they live in, and ushering in the period of modernity. | 11 | |
| 10573200531 | hacienda system | a rich European (In Spanish speaking colonies, Spanish Europeans) held a large area of land on which serfs and slaves worked. They worked the land for the land owner and were bound there; landowners owned the workers | 12 | |
| 10573200532 | Henry VIII | separated the Church of England from the Roman Catholic church; became supreme head of the church of England; only did this because the Roman Catholic church denied him a divorce | 13 | |
| 10573200533 | heliocentric theory | the theory that the sun is the center of the Solar System and not the Earth | 14 | |
| 10573200534 | holy roman empire | the loose federation of mostly German states and principalities headed by an emperor elected by the princes; lasted from 962-1806 | 15 | |
| 10573200535 | indulgences | the forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins, granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act (people paid the church to be forgiven of their sins); inspired reformation movements | 16 | |
| 10573200536 | Janissary | Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century; the trained Christian boys taken from Christian families in the Ottoman empire | 17 | |
| 10573200537 | Manchu (Qing dynasty) | Manchu: federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing empire; Manchus overthrew the Ming empire in 1644, the Quing controlled Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan and Tibet, the last Qing emperor overthrown in 1911 | 18 | |
| 10573200538 | Martin Luther | leader of the reformation act against the Roman Catholic church and father of the Protestants; wanted to reform the church because of its corruptions and the indulgence system; posted a 95 thesis | 19 | |
| 10573200539 | Mestizo | term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed Amerindian and European descent | 20 | |
| 10573200540 | Mulattos | term used by Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent | 21 | |
| 10573200541 | Peter the Great | a Russian tsar that introduced and encouraged Russia to become like a Western state; introduced technology, culture, language, style, etc | 22 | |
| 10573200542 | Peninsulares | a term used by Spanish colonies to describe someone born of Spanish descent (directly from Spain) | 23 | |
| 10573200543 | Phillip II of Spain | Spain was in debt and King Phillip II imposed a heavy sales tax and tried to enforce Catholic orthodoxy (did this to the Netherlands who soon revolted) | 24 | |
| 10573200544 | protestant reformation | religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It resulted in the "protesters" forming several new Christian denominations, including the Lutheran and Reformed Churches and the Church of England | 25 | |
| 10573200545 | scientific revolution | the intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had lad the groundwork for modern science. | 26 | |
| 10573200546 | Suleiman the magnificent | the most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire; ruled from 1520-1566; also known as Suleiman Kanuni, "The Lawgiver"; he significantly expanded the empire in the Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean | 27 | |
| 10573244771 | Early Modern 1450-1750 | Period 4 | 28 | |
| 10573249036 | AP World History | Period 4 | 29 |
AP World History: Packet C Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 5411084789 | deteriorated | become progressively worse | 0 | |
| 5411084790 | development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation OR a process in which something grows/advances | 1 | |
| 5411084791 | diffusion | the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another | 2 | |
| 5411084792 | diplomacy | negotiation between nations | 3 | |
| 5411084793 | disparity | inequality | 4 | |
| 5411084794 | excerpt | a passage selected from a larger work | 5 | |
| 5411084795 | expedient | appropriate to a purpose | 6 | |
| 5411084796 | exploits | a striking or notable deed | 7 | |
| 5411084797 | extent | the point or degree to which something extends | 8 | |
| 5411084798 | extortion | the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats | 9 | |
| 5411084799 | facilitated | make (an action or process) easy or easier. | 10 | |
| 5411084800 | fealty | the loyalty that citizens owe to their country | 11 | |
| 5411084801 | fidelity | faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief | 12 | |
| 5411084802 | fraternize | associate or form a friendship with someone (esp. when one is not supposed to) | 13 | |
| 5411084803 | globalization | the act of something extending to other or all parts of the world | 14 |
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