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AP World History Test 3: chapter 6-7 Flashcards
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| 5262534662 | Continental Population Distribution | Americas least, then Africa, then Eurasia by far largest | 0 | |
| 5262551485 | Effect of pack animals in americas | No animals (except for llamas and guinea pigs) were domesticated, thus no secondary products or animal-labor could be utilized, no longdistance contact or pastoral societies emerged | 1 | |
| 5267294049 | Meroe | A large city-center of Nubian civilization, by the southern nile, rainfall based agriculture, long distance trading, declined because of deforestation, ruled by women sometimes, smelting is a good job, ancient traditions then coptic christianity then islam | 2 | |
| 5267397725 | Axum | New civilization in the horn of Africa (now Ethiopia), relied economically on plow-based agriculture, made money off of taxing trade off the coast, wrote the language "Geez," adopted christianity in the 300s at the same time as Constantine (under king Ezana), declined bc environment after intensive farming and islam altering trade routs | 3 | |
| 5267462788 | Axum fell | This civilization fell because they had tried too big a conquest, environmental impacts, and Islam altered economically important trade routes, though area rose again (Christian) and is part of Ethiopia's history now. | 4 | |
| 5676470670 | Niger river cities w/o states | people flocked to Niger river valley bc drought, Jenne Jeno is main city, cities without central power between all and no central power within each, resemble indus river valley, fire working people are revered | 5 | |
| 5677260861 | This fueled African trading | africa didn't have stone, iron ore, salt, and fuel so long distance trade for agri and clay did have | 6 | |
| 5267491095 | Jenne-Jeno | A dry period made people coalesce by the fertile niger river valley, this was the major city in a network of ununified cities by the niger river | 7 | |
| 5267497277 | Sogdia | Spoke Iranian, the largest language across the silk road, practiced Zoroastrianism, lived in oases, very important middlemen in trade between China and Turks, spread Buddhism along trade routes + converted many, they were eventually absorbed into other cultures of the region | 8 | |
| 5268075237 | Dhow | Arab ship powered by wind, didn't have big rowing crews and could carry lots of supplies, thus could go further, Indians or arabs invented, spread it to Europe, | 9 | |
| 5268124460 | Plow based agriculture | Pulled by animals (faster, longer, more distribution, frees time for humans), digs deeper (moister lower down) | 10 | |
| 5268193486 | Indian Ocean trading network | sea-based trade routes, connected people across Eastern hemisphere, lower transportation costs, could carry more bulk goods for mass market | 11 | |
| 5268156203 | Cities without states | not parts of larger ruling networks, had to trade far away (ex. Teotihuacan, Jenne-Jeno) | 12 | |
| 5268170550 | Islamic trade | changes trade focus from nile river valley to sahara, but affects east coast more than interior africa, contact swahili people through trade, like merchants, convert many people because it is easy to convert, just say Shahada | 13 | |
| 5268194516 | Mahayana Buddhism | The Buddha is a divine deity, bhoddisatvas help people to enlightenment, spread throughout silk roads because very appealing and non-conflict, was adapted as it spread to fit the people it was spreading to, adapted from theraveda, "Great Vehicle" | 14 | |
| 5596633954 | Theraveda Buddhism | "Great Vehicle," og buddhism, | 15 | |
| 5268182140 | China | China was ahead invention-wise because of its historical continuity and secularism, silk was its major export | 16 | |
| 5268102436 | Black Death | when Mongol empire briefly unified Eurasia facilitated spread from China to Europe, killed 1/2 Europeans b/w 1346-1348, those who survived benefited | 17 | |
| 5268036835 | Silk Roads | extensive trade network across Eurasia, transported silk and other commodities, linked pastoral, agricultural, and outer-rim large civilizations, "relay trade" network | 18 | |
| 5268582534 | Kyber pass | in between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Pashtun poeple at border, Al Queda based here | 19 | |
| 5268609289 | Bottleneck of Panama | Thin, Seperated s and N america with dense jungles and disease, no boats bt n and s america because not enough desire | 20 | |
| 5268625122 | Capitalism | No big trade corporations, individual spontaneity, this was beginning to form but there was no market yet | 21 | |
| 5272603142 | Srivijaya | Malay kingdom, dominated critical choke point of Indian Ocean trade 670-1025, emerged from competition b/w ports for trade | 22 | |
| 5272766201 | Slavery | chattle slavery= humans are possessions, no intersex provisional/"nicer" slavery= intersex not taboo, people can work out of it, treated better, more common in silk road civ. | 23 | |
| 5272782319 | Silk | China traded it to silk route and nomads, who traded it along the silk route, became symbol of elite status and wealth even though largely produced by commoners (women most of the time), breathable and light, not hardy fabric, made best by mulberry worm | 24 | |
| 5272803995 | Sufism | Nonviolent mystical Islamic sect, whirling dervishes= spinning order, reject material wordliness (Wear wool) | 25 | |
| 5272812258 | Salt | Worth a lot, essential to live, produced largely in Northeast Africa, (equator uses more spices because food is worse, could be rotting) | 26 | |
| 5272903674 | Piye | Khushite conqueror of egypt | 27 | |
| 5272923651 | Adulis | largest east african port | 28 | |
| 5677317953 | Mesoamerica | large very diverse region, but shared similar cultures | 29 | |
| 5272945296 | Niger River Valley civilization | Iron smithing revered as powerful (fire), cities organized around large cities and economy but no central state, driven to central-southern niger because of dry period in southern sahara, traded a lot because of nile boats |  | 30 |
| 5272999119 | Maya | "Popul Vuh" creation story, advanced sun and moon cycles and astronomy, advanced math and "0," elaborate writing system, elaborate agriculture and engineered environment, competing (Greece/Mesopotamia-like) city states, drought around 840 signals fall and death of population (ecological, fragmented so couldn't fix, disease, famine) | 31 | |
| 5677453158 | Andes civilizations | many different environments, most famous is inca, didn't develop writing, wari, tiwanaku, moche, and chimu (and norte chico earlier) also andes civilizations | 32 | |
| 5677333824 | El Mirador | archeo. site in Guatamala with monumental architecture and lots of people | 33 | |
| 5273048186 | Teotihuacan | giant city built to a plan, temple of sun and moon, Temple of Feathered Serpent people are sacrificed to accompany nobles to afterlife, had lots of tourists and mayan workers, may not have had a single high monarch, outside trade | 34 | |
| 5677529346 | Chavin | Religious cultural center in peru but was pan andean by the end, large influence from other places an on other places, | 35 | |
| 5677553666 | Moche | bt. 100-800 ce, ruled by warrior-priests, elaborate burials, coastal region civ., skilled craftspeople, fell bc enviro | 36 | |
| 5677625637 | Wari and Tiwanaku | both have surplus food and are common culture, wari has hillside terracing and is more tightly politically controlled, tiwanaku has raised swampy feilds | 37 | |
| 5273092799 | Borobudur | Largest buddhist monument, mountain shape with ten levels, in the Sailendra kingdom of Java | 38 | |
| 5273132188 | Swahili civilization | This civilization grew due to growing demand for east african trade, merchant class, kings and sizable towns, competing city-states, very cosmopolitan, Islamic (which separated it from other non-converted places more inland, got Islam from long distance (maritime) trade) |  | 39 |
| 5273117030 | Angkor Wat | Hindu temple in Angkor kingdom of cambodia, focused on Hindu understanding of cosmos, later used by Buddhists with little conflict |  | 40 |
| 5273193850 | Great Zimbabwe | civilization rose as a result of growing east african trade and its cattle, south of swahili | 41 | |
| 5677725564 | Bantu | Farming group in africa, moves and displaces hunter-gatherers, regards batwa neighbors as first, women are agri workers and men are hunters equal and seperate, kinship ties organize, religion of continuous organization | 42 | |
| 5677940192 | Southwestern early north america | lived in pit houses, got maize from meso (took 2,000 years to evolve from teosinte), kivas | 43 | |
| 5677846804 | Early Decentralized North America | hunting and gathering or mesoamerica or arctic settled bison hunters, bc diff languages never unites | 44 | |
| 5677965647 | Chaco | five pueblos in northern New Mexico, larger settlements from settling down, most impressive settling down of USish area, skilled astronomers and elaborate road system, drought ends it, "shallow" history | 45 | |
| 5677992512 | Mound Builders | independant agri revolution, Hopewell a section of it, later corn based agri, Cahokia city center after long history | 46 | |
| 5678055904 | Natchez | another NA chiefdom, upper class marries stinkards | 47 | |
| 6551313966 | steam power invented in | 1800s | 48 | |
| 6551337527 | conquering on interior africa | 1880s | 49 | |
| 6551366880 | joint stock company | group of investors buy stocks, helped from 1500s onwards | 50 |
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AP World History: Period 2 Review - Part 2 Flashcards
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| 10394258927 | Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) | The central text of Daoism; translated as The Way and Its Power. |  | 0 |
| 10394262117 | Daoism | Chinese philosophy/religion that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it, avoid futile struggles, and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature. |  | 1 |
| 10394266616 | Darius I | Great king of Persia (r. 522-486 B.C.E.) following the upheavals after Cyrus's death; completed the establishment of the Persian Empire. |  | 2 |
| 10394268150 | Dharma | Performance of the duties appropriate to an individual's caste: good performance will lead to rebirth in a higher caste. |  | 3 |
| 10394293625 | Filial Piety | The honoring of one's ancestors and parents, a key element of Confucianism. |  | 4 |
| 10394298467 | Greco-Persian Wars | Two major Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 B.C.E. and 480 B.C.E., in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea. |  | 5 |
| 10394300997 | Greek Rationalism | A secularizing system of scientific and philosophic thought that developed in classical Greece in the period 600 to 300 B.C.E.; it emphasized the power of education and human reason to understand the world in nonreligious terms. |  | 6 |
| 10394302953 | Gupta Empire | (320-550 CE) The decentralized empire that emerged after the Mauryan Empire, and whose founder is Chandra Gupta. |  | 7 |
| 10394303704 | Han Dynasty | Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Qin in 202 BCE; ruled for next 400 years. It restored unity in Chnia & softened the government's legalist policies. |  | 8 |
| 10394317067 | Hellenistic Era | The period in which Greek culture spread widely into Eurasia in the kingdoms ruled by Alexander's political successors (323 - 30 B.C.E.). |  | 9 |
| 10394322652 | Helots | The dependent, semi-enslaved class of ancient Sparta whose social discontent prompted the militarization of Spartan society. |  | 10 |
| 10394324956 | Herodotus | Greek historian known as the "Father of History" (ca. 484-ca. 425 B.C.E.). His Histories enunciated the Greek view of a fundamental divide between East and West, culminating in the Greco-Persian Wars of 490-480 B.C.E. |  | 11 |
| 10394344026 | Hinduism | A major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, developed from Vedic religion. The word itself is derived from outsiders to describe the diverse Indian religious traditions. |  | 12 |
| 10394349389 | Hippocrates | "Founder of Medicine" (c. 460 - 370 B.C.E.) During the Golden Age in Greece he was a scientist that believed all diseases came from natural causes. He also had high ideals for physicians & an oath was made that is still used today. |  | 13 |
| 10394353038 | Hoplite | Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior numbers of opponents by fighting as a unit. Eventually over time, the ability to afford arms and armor & fight for the state came to define Greek citizenship. |  | 14 |
| 10394358964 | Ionia | The territory of Greek settlements on the coast of Anatolia; the main bone of contention between the Greeks and the Persian Empire. |  | 15 |
| 10394360008 | Jesus of Nazareth | Born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity, which include forgiveness for your enemies, kindness to others, and ever-lasting life for those who believe follow his teachings. |  | 16 |
| 10394373086 | Karma | In Indian tradition, the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life. |  | 17 |
| 10394373973 | Kshatriya | The second of the four classes of the caste system, traditionally made up of warriors and administrators |  | 18 |
| 10394375525 | Laozi (Lao Tzu) | Legendary author of the Tao Teh Ching and founder of Daoism (according to tradition, born in 604 BCE) |  | 19 |
AP World History: Chapter 18 Flashcards
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| 8158642260 | Chartered companies | Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to france and england in exchange for a momopoly over trade to the west indies colonies | 0 | |
| 8158642261 | Dutch west India company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct it's merchants trade in the Americas and Africa | 1 | |
| 8158642262 | Plantocracy | In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land | 2 | |
| 8158642263 | Driver | A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did it's work on a plantation | 3 | |
| 8158642264 | Seasoning | An often difficult period of adjustment to new climates, disease environments, and work routines, such as that experienced by slaves newly arrived in the Americas | 4 | |
| 8158642265 | Manumission | A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave | 5 | |
| 8158642266 | Maroon | A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of a community of runaway slaves In the West Indies and South America | 6 | |
| 8158642267 | Capitalism | The economic system of large financial institutions-banks, stock exchanges, investment companies-that first developed in early modern Europe. Commercial ___ that trading system of the early modern economy, is often distinguished from industrial ___ the system based on machine production | 7 | |
| 8158642268 | Royal African company | A trading company chartered by the English government to conduct it's merchants trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa | 8 | |
| 8158642269 | Mercantilism | European government policies designed to promote overseas trade between a country and it's colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their mother-land country. The British system was defined by the navigation acts, the French system by laws known as the Exclusif | 9 | |
| 8158642270 | Atlantic circuit | The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system | 10 | |
| 8158642271 | Middle passage | The part of the Atlantic circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas | 11 | |
| 8158642272 | Songhai | A people, language, kingdom, and empire in western Sudan in west Africa. At it's height, the Muslim ____ empire stretched from the Atlantic to the land of Hausa and was a major player in the trans-Saharan trade | 12 | |
| 8158642273 | Hausa | An agricultural and trading people of central Sudan in west Africa. Aside from their brief incorporation into the Songhai empire, the ___ city-states remained autonomous until the sokoto caliphate conquered them | 13 | |
| 8158642274 | Bornu (Or Kanem-Bornu) | A powerful west African kingdom at the southern edge of the Saharan in the central Sudan, which was important in trans-Saharan trade and in the spread of Islam. | 14 | |
| 8158642275 | Atlantic system | The network of trading links that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic basin | 15 |
AP World History Chapter 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 7263612070 | loess | a fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. it constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow Rover Valley in northern China | 0 | |
| 7263615985 | Shang | the dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1045 bce) | 1 | |
| 7263657108 | Zhou | the people and dynasty that ook over the dominant position in north China from the Shang dynasty and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. The Zhou era, particularly the vigorous early period (1045-771 bce) was remembered in Chinese tradition as a time of prosperity and benevolent rule | 2 | |
| 7263695132 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, according to which it was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of China and to take away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself in the best interests of his subjects | 3 | |
| 7263734969 | Confucious | western name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi (551-479 bce) his doctrine of duty and pubic service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials | 4 | |
| 7263741345 | Daoism | chinese school of thought, originating in the warring States Period with the laozi. daoism offered an alternative to the Confucian emphasis on hierarchy and duty | 5 | |
| 7263778997 | yin/yang | in Chinese belief, complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. yang is associated with masculine, light and active qualities; yin with feminine, dark, and passive qualities | 6 | |
| 7263825952 | kush | an Egyptian name for the Nubia, the region alongside the Nile River south of Egypt, where an indigenous kingdom with its own distinctive institutions and cultural traditions arose beginning in the early second millenium bce | 7 | |
| 7263847587 | Meroe | capital of a flourishing kingdom in southern Nubia from the fourth century bce to the fourth century ce. in this period Nubian culture shows more indeoendence from Egypt and the influence of sub-Saharan Africa | 8 | |
| 7263880597 | Celts | peoples sharing common linguistic and cultural features that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium bce | 9 | |
| 7263889905 | Druids | the class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples | 10 | |
| 7263922158 | Olmec | the first Mesoamerican civilization. between ca. 1200 and 400 bce. the Olmec people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide ranging trade, ceremonial centers and monumental construction | 11 | |
| 7263946515 | Chavin | the first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 bce) | 12 | |
| 7263952282 | llama | a hoofed animal indigenous to the Andes Mountains in South America. It was the only domesticated beast of burden in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans | 13 |
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