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AP World History: Era 3 Test Flashcards

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6805359198bantua group of Niger-Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa (including Swahili and Zulu)0
6805359199Bedouinsnomadic peoples of the Arabian peninsula (pre-Islam)1
6805359200the Black Deathalso known as the Bubonic Plague, this epidemic spread throughout Afro-Eurasia, facilitated by trade2
6805359201Buddhist Sectsprimary examples: Jain, Chan, pure-land, Zen,3
6805359202the Bushido Codethe code of honor and loyalty mandatory for all bushi and samurai in Japan4
6805359203Caliphatea form of Islamic government led by a caliph5
6805359204Chinampathe Aztec floating gardens6
6805359205Chivalrythe code of loyalty and honor mandatory for knights in western European feudalism7
6805359206Christendomthe Christian world as a whole8
6805359207Civil Service Exam Systemdeveloped under Han China, was the system for determining the appointments of administrators based on knowledge rather than familial ties.9
6805359208Conversionexchanging your religious beliefs for another10
6805359209Crusadesa series of religious wars led by Christians and Muslims in attempt to regain "the holy land" (Jerusalem)11
6805359210Daimyowarlord rulers of small states following civil war and disruption of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japanese feudalism12
6805359211Dar al-Islaman area of the world under the rule of Islam13
6805359212Diffusion of scientific and technological traditionsthe spread and commercialization of new technologies and innovations, facilitated by the trans-continental trade routes14
6805359213Entrepota port of city center of trade15
6805359214Feudalism/decentralized governmenta system of government in which small estates were privately run with certain positions in a hierarchy, present in both Western Europe and Japan16
6805359215Fiefsan estate of land in a feudal system17
6805359216Gentrypeople of good social position, typically the well educated scholars in China18
6805359217Grand Canal in Chinabuilt during the Sui dynasty, connected China and its waterways, facilitated trade19
6805359218Guildssworn associations of people in the same business in Western Europe20
6805359219Hajjthe Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca21
6805359220Hanseatic Leaguean organization of cities in northern Germany and southern Scandanavia, encouraged trade22
6805359221Holy Roman EmpireThe empire set up in western Europe following the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor in the year 800. It was created by the medieval papacy in an attempt to unite Christendom under one rule.23
6805359222Khan/Khanatesthe leader or form of leadership in the Mongol empire24
6805359223Little Ice Agea period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period25
6805359224Magna Cartacharter issued by King John of England, protected feudal lords' power26
6805359225Manorialisma system of economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers during the Middle Ages27
6805359226Mit'aMit'a was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire28
6805359227monsoonsthe seasonal winds that blew across the Indian subcontinent, facilitated trade29
6805359228Neo-Confucianismrevived ancient Confucian scholar religion in the Song era of China30
6805359229nobilitythe group of people belonging to the noble class in a country, especially those with a hereditary or honorary title31
6805359230Papacythe class/groups of the Roman Catholic popes32
6805359231quiputhe record keeping system of the Incas, a system of knotted strings33
6805359232samuraithe mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders34
6805359233serfdomthe state of being a serf or feudal laborer35
6805359234shariaIslamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet36
6805359235Shiathe Islamic sect that supported Ali37
6805359236Sufithe Islamic mystics38
6805359237Sultanan Islamic leader in India in the Delhi Sultanate39
6805359238Sunnian Islamic sect the supported the Umayyad40
6805359239Swahilithe culture/language of south-eastern coast of Africa41
6805359240terrace farminga method of farming in which one cuts a groove along the side of a large slope to increase irrigation; used by the Incan empire42
6805359241tribute systemthe system in which a large empire controls a state, but leaves it be as long as the state pays a large sum of money and admits submission43
6805359242Ulamathe orthodox religious scholars of Islam44
6805359243Vassalsmembers of the military elite in western European feudalism45
6805359244Vikingsthe Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe in the 8th-11th centuries.46
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AP World History Chapter 19 Flashcards

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9221925007Abd al-Hamid IIOttoman sultan who accepted a reform constitution but then suppressed and ruled as an autocrat0
9221925008Boxer RebellionA 1900 rebellion of traditionalist Chinese people who wanted to throw the foreigners out1
9221925009China, 1911The year of the collapse of China's imperial order2
9221925010daimyoA Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai3
9221925011Hong XiuquanLeader of the Taiping Rebellion. Thought himself the younger brother of Jesus4
9221925012informal empirethe growing presence of Europeans in Africa during the first decades of the nineteenth century5
9221925013Meiji restorationThe restoration of the Emperor Meiji to power in Japan, overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate in 18686
9221925014Matthew PerryThis American naval officer was the driving factor in Japan's opening by using gunboat diplomacy7
9221925015Opium Warsconflict between Britain and China in 1839 over the Opium trade, Britain wins and China weakens8
9221925016Russo-Japanese War(1904-1905) War between Russia and Japan over imperial possessions. Japan emerges victorious and takes parts of Manchuria under its control9
9222011491samuraiClass of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land10
9222011492self-strengthening movementChinese attempt (1860-1895) to blend Chinese cultural traditions with European industrial technology11
9222011493Selim IIIOttoman sultan who tried to reorganize army by European standards, but assassinated in a janissary revolt in 180712
9222011494the sick man of Europelabel given to a European country experiencing a time of economic difficulty or impoverishment. The term was first used in the mid-19th century to describe the Ottoman Empire, but has since been applied at one time or another to nearly every other major country in Europe13
9222011495social Darwinismthe belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle14
9222011496Taiping UprisingMassive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of the country from 1850-1864. It was, in essence, the establishment of a new country, the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, in the southern part of China15
9222011497Tanzimat reformsA set of reforms designed to remake the Ottoman Empire on a Western European model from 1840-187016
9222011498Tokugawa shogunateJapanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences17
9222011499unequal treatiesSeries of nineteenth-century treaties in which China made major concessions to Western powers18
9222011500Young OttomansEducated urban men who tried to create a constitution, liberal reform, and a Turkic national state19
9222011501Young Turksa successful Turkish reformist group in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries20
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AP World History: Summer Vocabulary Flashcards

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7195074984AbsolutismAdvocacy of a rule by absolute standards or principles.0
7195080944AdministerTo manage or supervise the execution, usse, or conduct of.1
7195087527Afro-African e.g Afro-American, Afro-Asiatic.2
7195093985AgrarianOf or relating to, or characteristic of farmers or their way of life.3
7195097486AnalyzeTo study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of.4
7195099440Anti-SemitismHostility towards or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.5
7195105066ArableFit for or used for the growing of crops.6
7195110266-archySuffix for rule or government (e.g. Monarchy)7
7195115898AristocracyA class or group of people believed to be superior. Or that class governs the people believed to be inferior.8
7195120364AuthoritarianOf, or relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority.9
7195123655Balance of PowerAn equilibrium of power sufficient to discourage or prevent one nation or party from imposing its will on or interfering with the interests of another.10
7195131517BureaucracyGovernment characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority.11
7195136338CausationThe act or process of causing.12
7195140860-centricSuffix for being concentrated about, directed to, or located in or at a center.13
7195142328City-stateAn autonomous state consisting of a city and surrounding territory.14
7195148006CoerceTo compel to an act or choice.15
7195148698ColonyA body of people living in a new territory, but retaining ties with the parent state.16
7195154346ConscriptionCompulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service.17
7195158895ContextThe interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.18
7195163819Coup d'etatA sudden decisive exercise of force in politics. The violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.19
7195168081DeforestationThe action or process of clearing of forests or the state of having been cleared of forests.20
7195170003DeityA god or goddess.21
7195174814DemocracyA government in which the power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically free elections.22
7195184814DemographyThe statistical study of human populations especially with reference to size and density, distribution, and vital statistics.23
7195187544DiffusionThe spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to others by contact.24
7195190552DynastyA succession of rulers of the same line of descent.25
7195194665EgalitarianAsserting, promoting, or marked by a belief in human equality with respect to social, political, and economic affairs.26
7195196921EmpireA major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority.27
7195201250GlobalizationThe development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets.28
7195205649HierarchyA ruling body of clergy organized into orders or ranks each subordinate to the one above it.29
7195254899IndentureA contract binding one person to work for another for a given period of time.30
7195263801KinshipThe quality or state of being kin.31
7195264850MetallurgyThe science and technology of metals.32
7195267408MigrationThe act, process, or an instance of migrating.33
7195272542Nation-stateA form of political organization under which a relatively homogeneous people inhabits a sovereign state.34
7195277559NomadicOf, or relating to, or characteristic of a people who have no fixed residence, but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory.35
7195288787PastoralA group of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen.36
7195292402PatriarchySocial organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line.37
7195299604Raw MaterialCrude or processed material that can be converted by manufacture, processing, or combination into a new and useful product.38
7195302810SedentaryNon-Migratory not nomadic group of people.39
7195310142SecularNot ecclesiastical or clerical.40
7195314058SyncretismThe combination of different forms of belief or practice.41
7195315776SynthesisThe composition or combination of a parts or elements so as to form a whole.42
7195322148StratificationThe act or process of dividing or arranging into classes, castes, or social strata.43
7195324636VernacularOf, relating to, or characteristic of a period, place, or group.44
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AP World History Chapter 24 and 25 Vocabulary Flashcards

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6344926057Niger RiverThe Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending about 4,180 km. It is an invaluable water source in the Sahara Desert. It's two fertile deltas provide critical water sources and wetlands to an otherwise very dry region0
6344926058creoleAmerican-born descendants of saltwater slaves. Mostly of mixed race.1
6344927803GullahGullah is the Creole language of the Gullah, having an English base with elements from various West African languages. It has about 125,000 speakers.2
6344927804GeecheeAnother term to describe the Gullah people or the Gullah dialect.3
6344929236SanteriaSanteria (Way of the Saints) is an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Yoruba beliefs and traditions, with some Roman Catholic elements added. Santeria grew out of the slave trade in Cuba.4
6344929237VodunAfrican religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti.5
6344930679CandombleA religion found primarily in Brazil that is strongly influenced by religions from Africa, which came to Brazil by means of the slave trade from the 16th to 19th century.6
6344930680gumboGumbo is a stew that originated in southern Louisiana during the 18th century. Gumbo is often categorized by the type of thickener used: the African vegetable okra, the Choctaw spice filé powder.7
6344932192polygynyA polygamous mating system involving one male and many females.8
6344932193Saint DomingueA French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804.9
6344934057DahomeyKingdom developed among Fon or Aja peoples in 17th century. Became the center in Abomey, 70 miles from coast. Dahomey was under King Agaja's expanded to control coastline and port of Whydah by 1727. They accepted Western firearms and goods in return for African slaves.10
6344934058Sunni AliSunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in west Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty. Under Sunni Ali's rule and cavalry many cities were captured and then strengthen, such as Timbuktu (captured in 1468) and Djenné (captured in 1475).11
6344934059OyoOyo was a yoruban city-state. It had a king who used nobles in provinces. The secret society of Ogboni checked the king's power.12
6344935616barracoonsA type of barracks used historically for the temporary confinement of slaves or criminals.13
6344937962Ile de GoreeGorée is famous as a destination for people interested in the Atlantic slave trade but relatively few slaves were processed or transported from there.14
6344937963Vasco da GamaVasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as linking the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitively.15
6344941021triangular tradeA three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africans were sent to the Americas to be slaves. America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa.16
6344941022Atlantic trade systemThough this trade system slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods were traded between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North America, especially New England, sometimes taking over the role of Europe. The use of African slaves was important to growing colonial cash crops, which were sent to Europe. European goods, in turn, were used to buy African slaves, which were then brought on the sea lane west from Africa to the Americas.17
6344943803Middle PassageThe route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade.18
6344944796African DiasporaThe African diaspora are communities throughout the world that are descended from the historical movement of population from Africa.19
6344944797abolitionThe action or an act of abolishing slavery in the Americas among other places. Enlightenment ideals led to the freedom and revolutions that sometimes ended in revolts from the enslaved.20
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AP World History: Chapter 1 Flashcards

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7223846728Historyperiod after humans were able to document0
7223848597Prehistoryperiod before humans could document1
7223852146Australopithecus"southern ape"2
7223853837Homo Erectus"upright walking man"3
7223856026Homo Sapiens"consciously thinking man"4
7223859569Neanderthalsfirst human species that went extinct5
7223862501Radiocarbon Datingmethod of telling how old things are (fossils)6
7223873006"Out of Africa" Migration Theoryall human species migrated from Africa7
7223881667Push and Pull Factorsfactors that push or pull people from a location, push- away pull- back in8
7223900859Paleolithic Age"old stone age" hunting-and-gathering times, currently an egalitarian society9
7223907820Egalitarian Societysociety of all people being equal10
7223910676Venus Figurinesfertility in women statue; big belly and large breasts11
7223925859Neolithic Age"new stone age" beginning of agriculture12
7223928485Neolithic Revolutionduring the Neolithic era of the beginning of migration13
7223931398Nomadstraveler from place to place14
7223935279Domesticationprocess of taming animals to be pets15
7223939210Pastoralismfocus is on raising livestock16
7223943004Diffusionspread of ideas, religions, and technologies17
7223955065Jerichofirst settled permanent village, located in current day Israel18
7223960654Catal Huyuka food surplus situation19
7223961848Textilecloth or fabric20
7223964987Special of Laborwomen take on jobs while men hunted21
7223968012Barbariansnomadic societies22
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Chapter 18 Vocabulary | AP World History Flashcards

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8573803013Atlantic SystemThe network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic System.0
8573848639Chartered CompanyGroups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies.1
8573803014Dutch West India CompanyTrading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa2
8573806059PlantocracyIn the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the eighteenth century.3
8573848640DriverA privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave going did its work on a plantation.4
8573848641SeasoningAn often difficult period of adjustment to new climates, disease environments and work routines, such as that experienced by slaves newly arrived in the Americas5
8573850686ManumissionA grant of legal slave freedom to an individual slave6
8573850687MaroonA slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America7
8573850688CapitalismThe economic system of large financial institutions -banks, stock exchanges, investment companies - that first developed in early modern. A system of free trade with less regulation.8
8573850689MercantilismEuropean government policies of 16th century, 17th century, and 18th centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland.9
8573853423Royal African CompanyA trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa10
8573853424Great CircuitThe network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system11
8573862661Middle PassageThe part of the Atlantic Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the ATlantic to the Americas12
8573862662SonghaiA people, language, kingdom , and empire in Western Sudan in West Africa. Stretched from Atlantic to the land of Hausa13
8573862663BornuA powerful West African Kingdom of the southern edge of the Sahara in the central Sudan. Which was important in trans-Saharan trade.14
8573868939Navigation ActsRequirements in trade that forced an entity to trade with Britain15
8574103652Grands BlancsSlave owners16
8574146695New AmsterdamThe region that later became New York17
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AP World History Chapter 14 Vocabulary Flashcards

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8376930770African DiasporaName given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade.0
8376930771BeninWest African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade.1
8376930772British/ Dutch East India companiesPrivate trading companies chartered by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples.2
8376930773DahomeyWest African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.3
8376930775Indian Ocean commercial networkThe massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered on the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500.4
8376930776PotosiCity that developed high in the Andes (in present-day Bolivia) at the site of the world's largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570s.5
8376930777Silver DrainTerm often used, along with "specie drain" to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East, a process exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were desirable in Eastern markets; eventually, the bulk of the world's silver supply made its way to China.6
8376930780Tokugawa shogunateMilitary rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments.7
8376930781Trading post empireForm of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples.8
8376930784DaimyoFeudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors.9
8376930791SamuraiThe warrior elite of medieval Japan.10
8376930792ShogunIn Japan, a supreme military commander.11
8376986051transoceaniccrossing an ocean12
8377006386Caravelsmall fast moving Spanish ship from the 15-17 centuries13
8377039078Carrackthree or four masted ship that was developed in Europe around the 14-15 centuries14
8377057885FluytA dutch sailing vessel designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel15
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World History AP CHAPTER 15 TERMS Flashcards

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6160057998Protestant ReformationBegan in 1517 when a German priest named Martin Luther, and sparked debate about the practices of the Catholic Church.0
6160057999Martin lutherA German priest who sparked the Reformation.1
6160058000Protesetant denominationsLutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, Quaker, Anabaptist2
6160058001HuguenotsThe protestant minority in France. A group of 3000 of them were massacred by them in 1572.3
6160058002Edict of Nantes4
6160058003Catholic Counter-ReformationA movement that reformed the corruption and abuse in the Catholic church.5
6160058004Jesuit"Society of Jesus" a religious order committed to spreading the Catholic Church.6
6160058005Taki Onqoy'Dancing sickness' predicted that Andean deities would overcome the Christian invaders7
6160058006HuacasThe spirit of local gods in the Americas.8
6160058007CofradiasChurch based associations of laypeople.9
6160058008Emperor KangziAn emperor of China who spoke out against missionaries coming into China.10
6160058009AurangzebDuring the reign of this Mughal emperor official policies accommodated Hindus.11
6160058010Ibn Abd ad-WahhabAn Islamic scholar who argued that the weakening Muslim power in the world was a result of deviations from the teachings of Islam.12
6160058011Wang YangmingAn influential Chinese thinker during the Ming Dynasty.13
6160058012Kaozheng'Research based on evidence' a Chinese Confucian system intended to seek truth from facts.14
6160058013Bhakti movementA devotional form of Hinduism.15
6160058014MiribaiA high-caste woman who was a Bhakti poet from northern India.16
6160058015SatiThe old Hindu practice where a widow threw herself on her husband's funeral pyre.17
6160058016GuruA religious teacher in Hinduism.18
6160058017KrishnaA Hindu deity that Miribai thought of as her husband.19
6160058018Guru NanakThe founder of Sikhism who was involved in the bhatki movement.20
6160058019SikhismBlended Muslim and Hindu religion into a distinct religious practice.21
6160058020European UniversitiesWere in paris,Bologna, Oxford, Cambridge, and Salamanca. Established courses of instruction.22
6160058021CopernicusSaid that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth turns on its axis.23
6160058022PtolemyA Greco-Egyptian mathematician and astronomer who lived in Alexandria in the 2nd century.24
6160058023EnlightenmentA point where scientific progress swelled and transformed human society.25
6160058024VoltaireA French writer who wrote his Treatise on toleration.26
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AP WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 18 Flashcards

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8124662226Yurt: around 600BCE, ILarge circle-shaped tent made of animal skins that can be packed up and moved from place to place.0
8124664834Shamans: Mongol Empire, CSpiritually adept men and women who communicated with the unseen world1
8124665923Temujin: 1161-1227 CE, PGenghis Khan's birth name, founder the Mongol Empire2
8124668901Khubilai Khan: 1215-1294 CE, PGenghis Khan's grandson and founder of the Yuan Empire.3
8124671137Ilkhanate: 1256-1335 CE, PMongol state that ruled Persia after abolition of the Abbasid empire in the thirteenth century4
8124673667Yuan: 1271-1368 CE, PMongol dynasty founded by Kublai Khan; united China5
8124675043Tamerlane: 1336-1405 CE, PFounder of Timurid Dynasty in Persia6
8124678408Ming Yongle: 1360-1424 CE, PThird emperor of the ming dynasty7
8124681326Battle of Manzikert: 1071 CE, PSeljuc Turks defeated the Byzantines, the Byzantine Empire was lost8
8124682948Seljuks: 11-12th century CE, PGroup of turks9
8124686661Khanbaliq: 1271-1368 CE, PCapital of the Yuan Dynasty10
8124689024Golden Horde: 1240ish-1502 CE, PA famous horde of the Mongol Empire that later became Turkish11
8124690471Helegu: 1218-1265 CE, PMongol Ruler that expanded southwest portion of the Mongol Empire12
8124692246Marco Polo: 1254-1324 CE, IVenetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan13
8124693098Ming Hongwu: 1328-1398 CE, PFounder on Ming empire; an upholder of the traditional order14
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