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6862774947	Where did Homo sapiens migrate to	Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas	0
6862795131	What is the meaning of the Paleolithic Era?	Old Stone Age	1
6862797996	What were some advancements in the Paleolithic Era?	Invented the first tools, made fire, lived in clans, developed oral language, created cave art.	2
6862815667	What is the meaning of the Neolithic Era?	New Stone Age	3
6862823158	What did societies during the Neolithic Era create?	Developed Agriculture, domesticated animals, used advanced tools, made pottery, developed weaving skills	4
6862836393	What is an example of an archaeological site in England that began during the Neolithic and was completed during the Bronze Age?	Stonehenge	5
6862842267	What were some River Valley Civilizations?	Egypt, Mesopotamia/Sumer, Indian, Chinese	6
6863235121	What were the three West African Kingdoms?	Ghana, Mali, Songhai	7
6862848862	Which group first had the idea of monotheism?	The Hebrews/Jews	8
6862854345	What contains the records and beliefs of the Hebrews?	The Torah	9
6862857198	Who led the Hebrews out of Egypt?	Moses	10
6862871101	Where did Hieroglyphics come from?	Egypt	11
6862871102	Where was Cuneiform created?	Sumer	12
6862872192	Who created the Alphabet	Phoenicians	13
6862878961	Which group of people invaded India and created a rigidly structured society (caste system)?	The Aryans (Indo-Aryans)	14
6862885176	Which Indian Empire caused the Golden Age of classical Indian culture?	Gupta Empire	15
6862887996	What are the main keys of Hinduism?	Caste system, Belief in many forms of one deity, reincarnation into different caste systems, Karma, Vedas and Upanishads	16
6862897931	Who founded Buddhism?	Siddhartha Guatama	17
6862902764	Who spread Buddhism from India to China and other parts of Asia?	Asoka	18
6862905868	Which river was Classical China centered on?	Huang He (Yellow river)	19
6862909487	Which ruler built The Great Wall?	Qin Shi Huangdi	20
6862913889	What was the name of the trade route connecting China to other cultures?	The Silk Road	21
6862918127	What were some example of contributions to Classical China?	Civil service system, paper, porcelain, silk	22
6862923577	What are some contributions of Confucianism?	Respect for elders, code of politeness, emphasis on education, ancestor worship (filial piety)	23
6862930205	What are some contributions of Taoism?	Humility, simple life and inner peace, harmony with nature	24
6862953464	Where was Ancient Greece located?	Between the Aegean and Mediterranean seas	25
6862966582	What was a Polis?	Greek city state	26
6862978419	Who were two aristocrats who worked for reforms that led to democracy?	Draco and Solon	27
6862982720	What were the Persian wars?	War between Persia and Greece	28
6862989872	What was the alliance of Greek city states called?	The Delian League	29
6863003317	Who was leader of Athens during its Golden Age?	Pericles	30
6863006896	Where were the 3 major philosophers of Greece?	Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle	31
6863010970	What were the 2 major drama playwriters?	Aeschylus and Euripides	32
6863013668	What was the most famous Greek poet?	Homer	33
6863017077	What were two of Homer's most famous works?	The Iliad and The Odyssey	34
6863022042	Who is known as the father of history?	Herodotus	35
6863026953	What are the three column types?	Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian	36
6863029396	Who was the major contributor to science?	Archimedes	37
6863031301	Who is the father of medicine?	Hippocrates	38
6863035849	Who were two contributors to mathematics?	Euclid and Pythagoras	39
6863039990	Who was Philip II of Macedonian's son?	Alexander the Great	40
6863052772	Which civilization lasted from 700 BCE- 500 CE	Rome	41
6863055370	What were the three main social classes of Rome?	Patricians, Plebeians, and Slaves	42
6863065277	Which group of people had citizenship in Rome?	Patrician and Plebeian men	43
6863072437	Who made up the First Triumvirate?	Julius Caeser, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus	44
6863083993	Who was Rome's First Emperor?	Octavian who became Augustus Caeser	45
6863088342	Who did Augustus defeat in Egypt?	Cleopatra and Marc Anthony	46
6863092718	How was Julius Caesar assassinated?	Assassinated by Senators at a meeting hall	47
6863120052	What is the term for Roman Peace?	The Pax Romana	48
6863127310	Who was Christianity led by?	Jesus of Nazareth	49
6863131298	What is the name of someone who dies for their cause?	Martyr	50
6863136194	Who adopted and legalized Christianity?	Emperor Constantine	51
6863141717	What is the name of the dispersal of Jews?	the Diaspora	52
6863147218	Who wrote the Aeneid?	Virgil	53
6863150070	Who contributed to Roman science?	Ptolemy	54
6863153249	What was the language of Rome?	Latin	55
6863154822	What was the law code of Rome?	The Twelve Tables	56
6863164001	What was the name of the war between Rome and Carthage?	The Punic Wars	57
6863169563	What was the most precious color in Rome?	Purple	58
6863174062	Why did the Punic wars happen?	Rome and Carthage were in a competition for trade	59
6863181069	What was the name of the eastern side of the Roman Empire when the west fell to Barbarians?	The Byzantine Empire	60
6863184650	Under which ruler did the Byzantine Empire reach its height in culture and prosperity?	Emperor Justinian	61
6863188185	What was the form of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire?	Greek Orthodox Christianity	62
6863204181	Who is the prophet of Islam?	Muhammad	63
6863206101	Where was Muhammad born?	Mecca	64
6863211901	What is the name of the Holy Book for Islam?	Quran	65
6863227391	What was the only Christian African civilization?	Axum/Aksum	66
6863240917	What were the three West African Civilizations?	Ghana, Mali, Songhai	67
6863243656	What is the ethnic religion unique to Japan?	Shinto	68
6867614346	Which mesoamerican civilization rules Chichen Itza?	Mayan	69
6867614347	Which mesoamerican civilization ruled Tenochtitlan?	Aztec	70
6867614348	Where was the Aztec civilization located?	Arid valley in Central Mexico	71
6867614349	Machu Picchu belonged to which Mesoamerican civilization?	Incan	72
6867614350	Which mesoamerican civilization was located in the Andes Mountains?	Incan	73
6867614351	Which Russian threw off the mongols and centralized power in Moscow?	Ivan the Great	74
6867721105	What is a fief?	Land Grant	75
6867721106	What is a serf?	A peasant confined to work in a manor	76
6867721107	Which pope crowned Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor?	Pope Leo III	77
6867721108	Which four groups of people I cared Europe?	Angles, Saxons, Magyars, and Vikings	78
6867721109	Where did the Vikings come from?	Scandinavia	79
6867721110	Which Pope called for a "holy war" or Crusade?	Pope Urban II	80
6867721111	In which Crusade was the city of Jerusalem captured?	1st Crusade	81
6867721112	In which Crusade was there a treaty between Saladin and Richard I?	3rd Crusade	82
6867721113	I'm which Crusade was Jerusalem taken back by the Muslims?	2nd Crusade	83
6867721114	In which Crusade was Constantinople sacked?	4th Crusade	84
6867721115	What were the impacts of the Black Death?	Decline in population, scarcity of labor, led to the end of Feudalism, Decline of church influence, disruption of trade	85
6867721116	Which English king lead the Norman conquest and united most of England?	William the Conqueror	86
6867721117	Which Frank established the Capetian dynasty?	Hugh Capet	87
6867721118	Which English king signed the Magna Carta?	King John	88
6867721119	What was the name of the mission to take back Spain from the Muslim moors?	Spanish Reconquista	89
6867755150	What are the three important Italian cities?	Florence, Venice, and Genoa	90
6867755151	Who wrote the Prince?	Machiavelli	91
6867755152	What did the Prince believe in the power of a ruler?	Absolute power	92
6867755153	Who painted the Sistine Chapel and created the David?	Michelangelo	93
6867755154	Who wrote sonnets about his ideal woman Laura?	Petrarch	94
6867755155	Who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper	Leonardo da Vinci	95
6867755156	Who wrote the praise of folly?	Erasmus	96
6867755157	Who wrote Utopia?	Sir Thomas More	97

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AP World History Mongols Flashcards

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8479917511	Ghengis Khan	The first great unifier and empire-builder of the Mongol people Tiltle bestowed upon him.	0
8479917512	Temujin	which was the Real name of Ghengis Khan 1167-1227	1
8479917513	Hulegu	Il-Khan of Persia and defeater of the Abbasid Dynasty	2
8479917514	Kipchak	Khanate of the Golden Horde (modern day western Russia)	3
8479917515	Yuan Dynasty	Chinese dynasty formed principally from Mongol conquerors	4
8479917516	Steppe	Geographical term for the great pasturelands of the Mongols which, through ill-suited for farming, were perfect for sustaining great herds. This is where Temujin was born	5
8479917517	Ogodai	Khan whose death may have spared Europe--the Mongol leaders were required to return to the East in the midst of European conquest	6
8479917518	Xiongnu	Predecessors to the Mongos (~200BCE-200CE); long troubled the development of China	7
8479917519	Beijing	Modern name for Khanbalik, the capital of the Yuan dynasty	8
8479917520	Bedouin	Desert dwelling Arabs	9
8479917521	Modun	Precursor to Ghengis Khan as unifier of the nomadic peoples north of the Yellow River	10
8479917522	Moscow	The center of Russian power moved here from Kiev under Mongol rule	11
8479917523	Kublai Khan	Khan whose rule of China was expansive and (relatively) enlightened; hosted Marco Polo	12
8479917524	Persia	Area where Mongol rule devastated the ecology; unlike most areas of the Empire, Mongols assimilated here, many converting to Islam	13
8479917525	Karakorum	Original capital of the Mongols	14
8479917526	Tolerant	Word which might describe the Mongol attitude towards the diverse religions encountered across their expansive empire	15
8479917527	Khan	"Leader"	16
8479917528	Pastoral	Peoples most focused on raising of herds, therefore they were often nomadic	17
8479917529	Yurt	What the Mongols lived in	18
8479917530	The bow	The Mongols' one/major technological contribution/innovation	19
8479917531	Mongolian Empire	Largest empire in world history.	20

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AP Literature Terms Flashcards

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9787612805	Allegory	story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities Ex. Animal Farm and Everyman	0
9787640154	Alliteration	repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together	1
9787657966	Allusion	reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture an indirect reference to something	2
9787704059	Anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row deliberate form of repetition	3
9787715761	Anastrophe	inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence purpose is rhythm, emphasis, or euphony	4
9787729792	Anecdote	brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual	5
9787738643	Antagonist	opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story	6
9787744419	Antimetabole	repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order "one should eat to live, not live to eat"	7
9787767237	Antithesis	balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure	8

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AP World History P.6 Chapter 2 Flashcards

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7509570630	Central Asian/Oxus civilization	A major First Civilization that emerged around 2200 B.C.E. in Central Asia along the Oxus or Amu Darya river in what is now northern Afghanistan. An important focal point for a Eurasian-wide system of intellectual and cultural exchange, it faded away about 1700 B.C.E.	0
7509570631	Code of Hammurabi	A series of laws publicized at the order of King Hammurabi of Babylon (d.1750 B.C.E.). Not actually a code, but a number of laws that proclaim the king's commitment to social order.	1
7509570632	Egypt: "The Gift of the Nile"	The region would not have been able to support a significant human population without the Nile's annual inundation, which provided rich silt deposits and made agriculture possible.	2
7509575971	Epic of Gilgamesh	The most famous extant literary work from ancient Mesopotamia, it tells the story of one man's quest for immortality.	3
7509583681	Hatshepsut (pron. hat-shep-soot)	Ancient Egypt's most famous queen; reigned 1472-1457 B.C.E.	4
7509583682	Mohenjo Daro/Harappa	Major cities of the Indus Valley civilization; both of which flourished around 2000 B.C.E.	5
7509586613	Norte Chico/Caral	A region along the central coast of Peru, home of a civilization that developed in the period 3000-1800 B.C.E. Caral was the largest of some twenty-five urban centers that emerged in the area at that time.	6
7509586614	Nubia	A civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile Valley, noted for development of an alphabetic writing system and a major ironworking industry by 500 B.C.E.	7
7509589865	Olmec civilization	An early civilization that developed along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico around 1200 B.C.E.	8
7509589866	Patriarchy	Literally "rule of the father"; a social system of male dominance.	9
7509592348	Pharaoh	A king of Egypt. The term literally means "the palace" and only came into use in the New Kingdom, but it is generally employed in reference to all ancient Egyptian rulers.	10
7509592349	Rise of the State	A process of centralization that took place in the First Civilizations, growing out of the greater complexity of urban life in recognition of the need for coordination, regulation, adjudication, and military leadership.	11
7509595345	Uruk (pron. OOH-rook)	The largest city of ancient Mesopotamia.	12
7509595346	Bronze Age	A period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization. 3500 BCE - 1300 BCE. Bronze is made through mixing copper with an alloy such as tin. It is stronger and more durable than copper.	13
7509598377	Iron Age	The start is considered by many to fall between around 1200 BCE to 600 BCE, depending on the region. In most parts of the world, its end is defined by the widespread adoption of writing, and therefore marks the transition from prehistory to history.	14
7509598378	Assyrians	A major Mesopotamian East Semitic-speaking kingdom and empire of the ancient Middle East, existed as an independent state from perhaps as early as the 2600 BCE, until its collapse between 612 BCE and 599 BCE	15
7509598379	Akkaddians	Was the first ancient Semitic-speaking empire of Mesopotamia, centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region, also called Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia. The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests by its founder Sargon of Akkad (2334-2279 BCE). Under Sargon and his successors, the Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states.	16
7509602089	Hittites	A member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.	17
7509602090	Phoenicians	The extinct Semitic language of the Phoenicians.	18
7509602091	Shang Dynasty	The Shang dynasty or Yin dynasty, according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty.	19
7509602092	Zhou Dynasty	The Zhou dynasty was a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty. The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history.	20
7509605179	Cuneiform	Composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others.	21
7509605180	Alphabet	The letters of a language in their customary order.	22

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AP Literature Vocabulary Pt. 4 Flashcards

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6739425302	Parable	A short story that has become an accepted part of a culture and used for religious or societal purposes; teaches a moral lesson	0
6739425303	Paradox	A statement that seems contradictory but is true	1
6739425304	Satire	A literary style used to attack or ridicule an idea often for encouraging change	2
6739428568	Figurative Language	Literary devices that enable a writer to operate on levels rather than literal; examples include metaphor, simile	3
6739428569	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	4
6739430299	Realism	A manner of treating subject matter that presents a careful description of everyday life, usually of the lower and middle classes	5
6739430300	Understatement	The opposite of exaggeration/writer says less than intended	6
6739432511	Ambiguity	Unclear or vagueness of meaning	7
6739432512	Hyperbole	An exaggeration	8
6739434994	Imagery	The use of sensory images	9
6739434995	Rhetorical Question	A question that does not require an answer	10
6739438125	Syntax	The organization of language into meaningful structure or pattern of words	11

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AP English Language Vocabulary Flashcards

Vocabulary for AP English Language

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8394697014	Ad Hominem Argument	Attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand	0
8394697015	Allegory	Fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts	1
8394697016	Alliteration	The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words	2
8394697017	Allusion	A reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea, or person	3
8394697018	Ambiguity	Uncertain or indefinite; subject to more than one interpretation	4
8394697019	Analogy	The correspondence or resemblance between two things that are essentially different	5
8394697020	Anecdote	A short story used to illustrate a point the author is making	6
8394697021	Antecedent	Every pronoun refers back to a previous noun or pronoun	7
8394697022	Antithesis	An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses	8
8394697023	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker	9
8394697024	Appositive	A word or phrase that follow a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity	10
8394697025	Assonance	A type of internal rhyming in which vowel souds are repeated	11
8394697026	Asyndeton	When the conjunctions (such as "and" or "but") that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence	12
8394697027	Atmosphere	The emotional feeling -or mood- of a place, scene, or event	13
8394697028	Attitude	The feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea	14
8394697029	Contrast	Oppositions	15
8394697030	Colloquial Language	Slang or common language that is informal	16
8394697031	Connotative	The interpretive level of a word based on associated images rather than the literal meaning	17
8394697032	Deductive Argument	The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example	18
8394697033	Diction	An author's choice of words	19
8394697034	Didactic	Writing which has the purpose of teaching or instructing	20
8394697035	Elegy	A work that expresses sorrow	21
8394697036	Ellipses	Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted	22
8394697037	Ethos	Refers to generally ethics, or values	23
8394697038	Euphemism	A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea	24
8394697039	Exposition	Writing or speech that is organized to explain	25
8394697040	Figurative Language	All uses of language that imply an imaginative comparison	26
8394697041	Foreshadowing	A purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative	27
8394697042	Hyperbole	A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis	28
8394697043	Imagery	A mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations	29
8394697044	Inductive Argument	Creating a case by providing specific examples and drawing a conclusion based on the evidence they provide	30
8394697045	Irony	When a situation produces and outcome that is the opposite of what is expected	31
8394697046	Juxtaposition	When two contrasting things are placed next to each other for comparison	32
8394697047	Logos	The use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument	33
8394697048	Metaphor	A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared directly	34
8394697049	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	35
8394697050	Mood	The prevailing or dominant feeling of a work, scene, or event	36
8394697051	Onomatopoeia	An effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning	37
8394697052	Oxymoron	Two contradictory words in one expression	38
8394697053	Paradox	A seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth	39
8394697054	Parallelism	A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures	40
8394697055	Parody	An effort to ridicule or make fun of a literary work or an author by writing a comic imitation of the work	41
8394697056	Pathos	A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work	42
8394697057	Periodic Sentence	Presents the main clause at the end of the sentence, for emphasis	43
8394697058	Persona	The character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text	44
8394697059	Personification	A figure of speech in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities or personalities	45
8394697060	Point of View	The particular perspective from which a story is told	46
8394697061	Pun	A play on words	47
8394697062	Repetition	The reiteration of a word or phrase for emphasis	48
8394697063	Rhetoric	The art and logic of a written or spoken argument to persuade, to analyze, or to expose	49
8394697064	Rhetorical Strategy	The way an author organizes words, sentences, and overall argument in order to achieve a particular purpose	50
8394697065	Rhetorical Devices	The specific language tools that an author uses to carry out a rhetorical strategy (diction, imagery, or syntax)	51
8394697066	Rhetorical Question	A question that is asked for the sake of argument	52
8394697067	Satire	To ridicule or mock ideas, persons, events, or doctrines	53
8394697068	Selection of Detail	The specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene or narrative	54
8394697069	Simile	A commonly used figure of speech that compares one thing with another using the words "like" or "as"	55
8394697070	Speaker	The narrator of a story, poem, or drama	56
8394697071	Syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning in which pieces of evidence are used to create a new conclusion	57
8394697072	Symbol	Something that stands for something else	58
8394697073	Synonym	A word that has the same, or nearly the same, meaning as another word	59
8394697074	Syntax	The way words are arranged in a sentence	60
8394697075	Tension	A feeling excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work	61
8394697076	Theme	The central idea	62
8394697077	Tone	Attitude	63
8394697078	Understatement	When an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves	64
8394697079	Zeugma	When a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes literal sense with one of them	65

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AP World History Regions Flashcards

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8771180680	North America		0
8771180681	Caribbean		1
8771180682	Latin America		2
8771180683	Central Africa		3
8771180684	East Africa		4
8771180685	East Asia		5
8771180686	Eastern Europe		6
8771180687	Middle East (Southwest Asia)		7
8771180688	South Africa		8
8771180689	South Asia		9
8771180690	Southeast Asia		10
8771180691	West Africa		11
8771180692	Western Europe		12
8771198966	Between North America and western europe	Atlantic ocean region	13
8771198967	Below south asia	Indian ocean region	14
8771198968	Australia	Oceania	15
8771198969	Europe is divided into	Westwrn and Eastern Europe	16
8771198970	Bordering W and E Europe, Middle East, and North Africa	Mediterranean region	17