AP WORLD HISTORY - STUDY SET
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WHAP Chapter 35 Review
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| 359629703 | Oswald Spengler | wrote "the decline of the west" | |
| 359629704 | Epistle to the Romans | it was directed towards Christian theology | |
| 359629705 | Ideas of Progress after WWI | was roundly attacked | |
| 359629706 | Revolt of the Masses | points out how the masses were destined to destroy the achievements of the western society | |
| 359629707 | Space and time's relativity were first important in who's theory? | Einstein | |
| 359629708 | Heisenberg | came up with the uncertainity principle | |
| 359629709 | John Manyard Keynes | discussed the end of laissez-faire capitalism | |
| 359629710 | Physics | made people in the 20's and 30's anxious due to the notion of truth | |
| 359629711 | Sigmund Freud | founder of psychoanalysis | |
| 359629712 | Root of Neurotic Behavior according to Freud | a conflict between concious and unconcious mental processes | |
| 359629713 | Photography | inspired painters | |
| 359629714 | What was not the movements of the 19th century? | impressionists | |
| 359629715 | Edgar Degas | was influenced by chinese artists | |
| 359629716 | Change in Art | there was no more "good" or "bad" art | |
| 359629717 | Bushel Wheat | had a major price drop | |
| 359629718 | Black Thursday | U.S. Stock Market Crashed | |
| 359629719 | Lowest point of Great Depression | 44% of banks were out of business | |
| 359629720 | What was practiced most during the Great Depression? | economic nationalism | |
| 359629721 | Who urged the government during the Great Depression? | John Manyard Keynes | |
| 359629722 | Russian Civil War | broke between Reds and Whites | |
| 359629723 | What was an unplanned course of nationalism? | War Communism | |
| 359629724 | Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921 | implemented free market reforms | |
| 359629725 | Stalin | used the philosophy of socialism and instituted the five year plan | |
| 359629726 | Mussolini | first used facism | |
| 359629727 | 1935 Numberg Laws | deprived Germans and Jews of their citizenship | |
| 359629728 | Kristalnaccht | a Nazi attack on jewish stores | |
| 359629729 | Gandhi did not believe in... | heavy industrilization | |
| 359629730 | The May Fourth Movement | stopped the chinese from foreign interference | |
| 359629731 | Sun Yatsen | came up with the three principles | |
| 359629732 | Mao Zedong's Rival | Jiang Jieshi | |
| 359629733 | The Long March | strengthened Mao Zedong |
AP World Dates 6 Flashcards
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| 385403717 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 0 | |
| 385403718 | 1956 | De-Stalinization/Nationalization of Suez Canal | 1 | |
| 385403719 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 2 | |
| 385403720 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 3 | |
| 385403721 | 1967 | 6-Day War/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 4 | |
| 385403722 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 5 | |
| 385403723 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 6 | |
| 385403724 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 7 | |
| 385403725 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/Fall of Berlin Wall | 8 | |
| 385403726 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 9 | |
| 385403727 | 1994 | Rwanda genocide/1st free elections in South Africa | 10 | |
| 385403728 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 11 |
AP World History Late 20th Century Flashcards
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| 385561342 | The Last Emperor of China | Pu Yi, the son of the Emperor's brother -Dowager chose him to succeed -His regent(his father) made him abdicate at age 5 -Remained a figurehead, the Forbidden City was plundered by advisers and servants | 0 | |
| 385561343 | Why does China disolve into chaos? | -Civil wars and power struggles -2 governments(One set up by Sun Yet-Sen, one by the Military) | 1 | |
| 385561344 | 3 Principals of the Miliary Government | -Nationalism -Democracy -Welfare | 2 | |
| 385561345 | Where did the Communism movement begin? | Northern China | 3 | |
| 385561346 | Who aid the growth of Communism in China? | Russia | 4 | |
| 385561347 | May 4th Movement | An anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles | 5 | |
| 385561348 | The Long March | Mao Zedong led Communists to far Western China | 6 | |
| 385561349 | Who claimed The Long March as a victory? | Chian Kai-Shek and the Nationalists | 7 | |
| 385561350 | Who invaded China? | Japan | 8 | |
| 385561351 | When the Japanese occupied Manchurio in 1931, what happened? | -Japanese make Pu Yi the puppet leader -China unites against Japan | 9 | |
| 385561352 | What region of China does Japan brutalize? | Nanjing | 10 | |
| 385561353 | What happens to the government during the war? | -Nationalist government is as corrupt as the old empire -Communists gain followers as the war drags on | 11 | |
| 385561354 | What do the Communists promsie the people? | -land reform -equality -End of corruption | 12 | |
| 385561355 | Communists win when? | October 1st, 1941. Mao proclaims Peoples Republic od China. | 13 | |
| 385561356 | USSR stands for? | Union of Soviet Socialists Republics | 14 | |
| 385561357 | What do Lenin and the NEP allow? | -Mix of capitalism and communism -Lets farmers sell their excess | 15 | |
| 385561358 | Who took over after Lenin died? | Stalin, who brought in the 5 years plans | 16 | |
| 385561359 | Components of 5-year Plan | -Quotas for production(agriculture and industry) -Governement direct; people lie to make quotas | 17 | |
| 385561360 | Farming in the Soviet Union | -Collective--operated by local farm groups -State owned and run by state -But small private farms were more efficient -Farmers are like serfs with the state as their master | 18 | |
| 385561361 | Stalin's Industrial priority | -Stalin sells surplus food to Eurpoe and uses the money for industry -Farmer technology backwards -Stalin focused on the military | 19 | |
| 385561362 | Industry advanced while what lagged behind? | -consumer products -food | 20 | |
| 385561363 | What benefits were there? | -Healthcare -Education -Social Services | 21 | |
| 385561364 | Causes of the Cold War | -West blatantly blocks spread of communism -West excludes the Soviets from secrets(A-Bomb) -Soviets created buffer zone in Eastern Europe -Soviets did not allow free elections in Eastern Europe when they said they would | 22 | |
| 385561365 | What do both sides want to spread? | Their ideas and systems | 23 | |
| 385561366 | Truman Doctrine | -Give Military aid to nations fighting communism -Greece and Turkey were first | 24 | |
| 385561367 | Marshall Plan | -Attempt to stop communism by rebuilding economies -Mostly Western Europe | 25 | |
| 385561368 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | 26 | |
| 385561369 | Warsaw Pact | Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance (1955-1991), or more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War | 27 | |
| 385561370 | Arms Race | -1949--Soviets have the A-bomb -1949--Mao takes China | 28 | |
| 385561371 | Berlin Airlift | 1948--Show commitment of the west. Airlifted food to the surrounded Western Berlin which was democratic | 29 | |
| 385561372 | Winston Churchill comes up with what term? | The Iron Curtain | 30 | |
| 385561373 | Korean War--Who attacked who? | North attacked South in 1950 | 31 | |
| 385561374 | Who does the U.S. help? | The U.S. help South Korea, when they entered they drove the North back | 32 | |
| 385561375 | Who enters to help the North and why? | Chins entered to help their fellow Communists in North Korea. | 33 | |
| 385561376 | How does the war end? | It doesn't exactly end. Stalemate was reached. Divided at the 38 parallel. | 34 | |
| 385561377 | Mao's China | -Relied on power of peasants -Used the party to control all thought in China "Mao Zedong Thought" -Fight against Westernism Re-distributes land to peasants (collectivization) | 35 | |
| 385561378 | Key Programs | -100 Flowers: Opens to ideas, then takes it back -Great Leap Forward: attempt to boost industry and agriculture (relied on peasants) -Cultural revolution | 36 | |
| 385561379 | Further tension in Europe | -Hungarian Uprising 1956; Crushed by Soviets -Sputnik--1st Satellite(Russian); Space Race -Berlin Wall: To keep Communists from escaping to West Berlin -Prague Spring 1968: Democratic uprising; Crushed by Soviets | 37 | |
| 385561380 | Cuba | -Castro overthrew Batista -Castro becomes pals with the Soviets | 38 | |
| 385561381 | Bay of Pigs | U.S. trains Cuban rebels. Totally backfires. | 39 | |
| 385561382 | Cuban Missil Crisis | -Soviets put missils in Cuba -U.S. makes them back down | 40 | |
| 385561383 | Vietnam | -French Indochina; Communists led by Ho Chi Mihn; Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia | 41 | |
| 385561384 | Ho Chi Mihn | Leader of the Communists in Vietnam | 42 | |
| 385561385 | Which part of Vietnam was communist? | North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam was democratic | 43 | |
| 385561386 | U.S. send troops to help South Vietnam | -Viet Cong(South Vietnam Communist Rebels) -Vietnam is a jungle -Guerrilla Warfar teactics used -U.S. doesn't ever invade North Vietnam due to their fear of China and the USSR -U.S. left and North Vietnam took over, Vietnam is still a mild Communist country | 44 | |
| 386461472 | What is Zionism? | -Jewish desire to re-create Israel | 45 | |
| 386461473 | Who opposes Zionism? | Palestininas | 46 | |
| 386461474 | What lead to the UN support of Zionism? | World War 2 | 47 | |
| 386461475 | UN Partition Plan | -Tried to divide by population and shared resources -Arabs rejected the plan and declared war -Israel wins with U.S. and foreign aid and weapons | 48 | |
| 386461476 | When was the 6-Day War and what happened? | Takes place in 1967. Israel wins and takes more land. Created 400 thousand Palestinian refugees -Israelis occupy all Pal. land | 49 | |
| 386461477 | When was the Yom Kippur War. What happened and what were the effects? | -1973 -Arabs attacked, Jews recovered and win -Sadat(President of Egypt) can now make peace -Camp David Accords -Egypt gets land and peace to develop economy -Sadat assassinated by Muslim extremests | 50 | |
| 386461478 | Camp David Accords | A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel | 51 | |
| 386461479 | Communism in Arganistan | -Soviets invaded in 1979 to support the Communist government -Muslim rebels (mujahadeen) -Soviets struggle; U.S. helps rebels; Soviet power and presige drops | 52 | |
| 386461480 | Detante | Rexlation of tension between the US and the USSR -Nixon's SALT were a big part, end of Mutual Assumed Distruction--Stratigic Arms Limitation Treaty -Spurred by Nixon's visit to China, he was also invited to Russia | 53 | |
| 386461481 | Gorbachez | a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule. | 54 | |
| 387805710 | Problems the Ottoman Empire was facing | -Controlling diverse population -Dwindleing revenues from trade -Increased taxes, esspecially on non-muslims (balkan peninsula) -Poor rulers and corruption (Janissaries-young enslaved soldiers) -Western ideas -Middle class merchants want more power -Clerical disdain of Western ideas | 55 | |
| 387805711 | Who made up most the middle class in the Ottoman Empire? | Christians and Jews | 56 | |
| 387805712 | Who was known as "The Sick Man of Europe"? Who said that? | The Ottoman Empire was called this by the Russian Czar | 57 | |
| 387805713 | Tanzimat Reforms | Series of reforms in the Ottoman Empire between 1839 and 1876; established Western-style universities, state postal system, railways, extensive legal reforms; resulted in creation of new constitution in 1876 | 58 | |
| 387805714 | Did the Ottoman Empire owe a large debt to Europe? | Yes they did | 59 | |
| 387805715 | Fragmentation of the Ottoman Empire | -Balkan(Christian minority) break away first -Lose North Africa and Egypt | 60 | |
| 387805716 | Who inspired Egyptian nationalism? | Albanian Muhammad Ali | 61 | |
| 387805717 | 3 Reasons why Russia developed differently from the most of Europe | -Adopted Byzantine Orthodox form of Christianity -Scorned Western ideas -Due to Mongol occupation they missed the Renaissance and the Reformation | 62 | |
| 387805718 | Window to the West | Peter the Great (1682-1725) accelerated the "borrowing" process from Europe. Tried to become more educated and westernized | 63 | |
| 387805719 | Catherine the Great | Was responsible in the Europeanization of the Russian Court. Was an Enlightened thinker | 64 | |
| 387805720 | Decembrist Revolt | Uprising in Russia in 1825, mainly soldiers soon suppressed-first manifestation of the modern revolutionary movement inspired by ideology. Wanted western ideas and to abolish serfdom and autocracy | 65 | |
| 387805721 | Slavophils | anti westernization -didn't believe in universal humanity -tradition -each society is fundamentally different from anotehr and each has its own national spirit | 66 | |
| 387805722 | Crimean War | (1853-1856) Russian war against Ottomans for control of the Black Sea; intervention by Britain and France cause Russia to lose; Russians realize need to industiralize. | 67 | |
| 387805723 | Emancipation Decree | Decree by Alexander 11 that freed the serfs and divided the land between them and the nobles | 68 | |
| 387805724 | Socialist Revolutionary Party | organized in 1901, represented the peasant disaffection | 69 | |
| 387805725 | Vladivostok | Russia's largest port city on the pacific ocean, on the head of the Golden Horn Bay, close to the border with China and North Korea. | 70 | |
| 387805726 | Tashkent | capital of Uzbekistan, primary city, largest city in central Asia, european people, gateway | 71 | |
| 387805727 | Battles of Port Arthur and Tsushima Straits | 2 battles of Far-East conquests. Between Russia and Japan | 72 | |
| 387805728 | Treaty of Portsmouth | (1905) ended the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). It was signed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after negotiations brokered by Theodore Roosevelt (for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize). Japan had dominated the war and received an indemnity, the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria, and half of Sakhalin Island, but the treaty was widely condemned in Japan because the public had expected more. | 73 | |
| 387805729 | Blood Sunday | January 22, 1905. A day were people approached the Czar's palace and troops from across the square shot and left hundreds dead or wounded lying in the snow. This day-killed people's faith and trust in Czar. | 74 | |
| 387805730 | October Manifesto | (1905), issued by Nich. II, attempted to quiet strikes, local revolts, promised freedom of speech and assembly, called the Duma into session | 75 | |
| 387805731 | Russian Expansion | -Conquered Siberia and C.Asia -Blocked by China, Began to look towards E. Europe and the Middle East | 76 | |
| 387805732 | Russian Setbacks | -Napoleon showed that Russia was still technologically backwards -Crimean War | 77 | |
| 387805733 | Russian Industrial Revolution | After Crimean War, end of serfdom and beginning of revolution -Government created (high taxes and foreign investments) -Workers exploited | 78 | |
| 387805734 | Russo-Japanese War | A conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. Russia loses, which leads to Bloody Sunday | 79 | |
| 387805735 | Obstacles to Indian national spirit | -More loyalty to family, caste system and the village | 80 | |
| 387805736 | Indian Tax System | A tax system based on the village | 81 | |
| 387805737 | Panchayat | a village council in India; govern themselves | 82 | |
| 387805738 | Maratha Confederacy | Organized by the Hindus | 83 | |
| 387805739 | Battle of Plassey | the victory in 1757 by the British under Clive over Siraj-ud-daula that established British supremacy over Bengal | 84 | |
| 387805740 | Diwani | Right to collect land revenue, gained by East Indian Company | 85 | |
| 387805741 | Sepoy Mutiny | discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858 | 86 | |
| 387805742 | Indian Renaissance | Britain's intellectual impact stimulated an upsurge and a creativity in Indian though | 87 | |
| 387805743 | Ram Mahan Roy | "Father of Modern India" Compromised between western secularism and Hindu beliefs | 88 | |
| 387805744 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 1856-1920; Indian nationalist who demanded immediate independence from Britain, mobilizing Hindu religious symbolism to develop a mass following and arguing that violence was an acceptable tactic for anticolonial partisans. "Father of Indian Unrest" | 89 | |
| 387805745 | Mughals | -Leader Akbar the Great -Created a new syncretic religion -Unified India | 90 | |
| 387805746 | Traditional India | -Village and family more important than nation -self-sufficient villages -loyal to local princes -taxes piad by village | 91 | |
| 387805747 | British Conquest in India | -Started in the early 1700's -Took advantage of the weak Mughal government -British East India Company ruled and exploited India | 92 | |
| 387805748 | Africa Pre 19th century | -Slave trade decimated Africa politically and economically -Europeans had a few outposts -Islam dominates North, West and Swahili Coast -Christianity in South Africa, Ethiopia and Egypt | 93 | |
| 387805749 | Abolition of Slave trade | Enlightenment thought and Industrial Revolution -British lead the way | 94 | |
| 387805750 | Why the push to colonize Africa? | -Raw materials and markets -Nationalism--competition for most colonies -Germany and Italy were late to colonize -Naval ports -divert attention -excess population valve -Social darwinism and "the white man's burden" | 95 | |
| 387805751 | Congress of Berlin | The meeting which established the principle that European ocupation of African territtory had to be based on effective occupation that was recognized by other states and that no single nation could control Africa | 96 | |
| 387805752 | Signs of Westernization in Africa | -Railroads, ports, roads -Education and medicine -More Christian influence -Africans feel as if they are losing their culture | 97 |
AP World History Dates Flashcards
Important World History dates
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| 400637794 | 8000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of agriculture. | 0 | |
| 400637795 | 3000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's. | 1 | |
| 400637796 | 1300 B.C.E. | Iron Age. | 2 | |
| 400637797 | 6th Century B.C.E. | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
| 400637798 | 5th C B.C.E. | Greek Golden Age - philosophers. | 4 | |
| 400637799 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great. | 5 | |
| 400637800 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin unified China. | 6 | |
| 400637801 | 32 C.E. | Beginnings of Christianity. | 7 | |
| 400637802 | 180 C.E. | end of Pax Romana. | 8 | |
| 400637803 | 220 C.E. | end of Han Dynasty. | 9 | |
| 400637804 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople. | 10 | |
| 400637805 | 4th Century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes. | 11 | |
| 400637806 | 476 | Fall of Rome. | 12 | |
| 400637807 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire. | 13 | |
| 400637808 | 632 | Rise of Islam. | 14 | |
| 400637809 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
| 400637810 | 1054 | 1st Schism in Christian Church. | 16 | |
| 400637811 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
| 400637812 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 18 | |
| 400637813 | 1095 | 1st Crusade. | 19 | |
| 400637814 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad. | 20 | |
| 400637815 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels. | 21 | |
| 400637816 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage. | 22 | |
| 400637817 | 1324-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta. | 23 | |
| 400637818 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe. | 24 | |
| 400637819 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans. | 25 | |
| 400637820 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
| 400637821 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope. | 27 | |
| 400637822 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ REconquista of Spain | 28 | |
| 400637823 | 1502 | Slaves tro Americas | 29 | |
| 400637824 | 1517 | Martine Luther/95 theses | 30 | |
| 400637825 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
| 400637826 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
| 400637827 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
| 400637828 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
| 400637829 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
| 400637830 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
| 400637831 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
| 400637832 | 1683 | -unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
| 400637833 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
| 400637834 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian War | 40 | |
| 400637835 | 1776 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
| 400637836 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
| 400637837 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 43 | |
| 400637838 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
| 400637839 | 1820s | Independence of Latin America | 45 | |
| 400637840 | 1839 | 1st opium war in China | 46 | |
| 400637841 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
| 400637842 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
| 400637843 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
| 400637844 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 50 | |
| 400637845 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in Us | 51 | |
| 400637846 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
| 400637847 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
| 400637848 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
| 400637849 | 1899 | Boer War - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
| 400637850 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 56 | |
| 400637851 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
| 400637852 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
| 400637853 | 1914 | World War I | 59 | |
| 400637854 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
| 400637855 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 61 | |
| 400637856 | 1929 | stock market crash | 62 | |
| 400637857 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
| 400637858 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
| 400637859 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
| 400637860 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
| 400637861 | 1945 | End of WWII | 67 | |
| 400637862 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 68 | |
| 400637863 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 69 | |
| 400637864 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
| 400637865 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 71 | |
| 400637866 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
| 400637867 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 73 | |
| 400637868 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
| 400637869 | 1962 | Cuban Missile crisis | 75 | |
| 400637870 | 1967 | 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
| 400637871 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 77 | |
| 400637872 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
| 400637873 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
| 400637874 | 1991 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 80 | |
| 400637875 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa | 81 | |
| 400637876 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 82 |
AP world chapter 21 Flashcards
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| 343182923 | Ottomans | Turkish people who settled in Asia minor during the 14th century, established empire in the middle east, North Africa, and eastern Europe lasted until just after WWI | 0 | |
| 343182924 | Mehmed II | Ottoman sultan called the "Conqueror"; captured Constantinople and destroyed the Byzantine Empire. | 1 | |
| 343182925 | Janissaries | Conscripted youths from conquered regions who were trained as Ottoman infantry divisions; had great political influence after the 15th century. | 2 | |
| 343182926 | Vizier | Head of the Ottoman bureaucracy; after the 15th century often more powerful than the sultan. | 3 | |
| 343182927 | Suleymaniye mosque | Great mosque built in Constantinople during the 16th-century reign of the Ottoman ruler Suleyman the Magnificent. | 4 | |
| 343182928 | Safavid dynasty | Founded by a Turkic nomad family with Shi'a Islamic beliefs; established a kingdom in Iran and ruled until 1722. | 5 | |
| 343182929 | Safi al-Din | Sufi mystic and first ruler of the Safavid dynasty | 6 | |
| 343182930 | Isma'il | Safavid leader; conquered the city of Tabriz in 1501 and was proclaimed shah. | 7 | |
| 343182931 | Chaldiran | Important battle between the Safavids and Ottomans in 1514; Ottoman victory demonstrated the importance of firearms and checked the western advance of their Shi'a state. | 8 | |
| 343182932 | Abbas I (the Great) | Safavid shah (1587-1629); extended the empire to its greatest extent; used Western military technology. | 9 | |
| 343182933 | Imams | Shi'a religious leaders who traced their descent to Ali's successors. | 10 | |
| 343182934 | Mullahs | Religious leaders under the Safavids; worked to convert all subjects to Shi'ism. | 11 | |
| 343182935 | Isfahan | Safavid capital under Abbas the Great; planned city exemplifying Safavid architecture. | 12 | |
| 343182936 | Mughal dynasty | Established by Turkic invaders in 1526; endured until the middle of the 19th century. | 13 | |
| 343182937 | Babur | Turkic leader who founded Mughal dynasty; died in 1530. | 14 | |
| 343182938 | Humayan | Son and successor of Babur; expelled from India in 1540, but returned to restore the dynasty in 1556 | 15 | |
| 343182939 | Akbar | Son and successor of Humayan; built up the military and administrative structure of the dynasty; followed policies of cooperation and toleration with the Hindu majority. | 16 | |
| 343182940 | Din-i-Ilahi | Religion initiated by Akbar that blended elements of Islam and Hinduism; did not survive his death. | 17 | |
| 343182941 | Sati | ritual burning of high-caste Hindu women on their husbands' funeral pyres. | 18 | |
| 343182942 | Taj Mahal | mausoleum for Mumtaz Mahal, built by her husband Shah Jahan; most famous architectural achievement of Mughal India. | 19 | |
| 343182943 | Nur Jahan | Wife of ruler Jahangir, who amassed power at the Mughal court and created a faction ruling the empire during the later years of his reign. | 20 | |
| 343182944 | Aurangzeb | Son and successor of Shah Jahan; pushed extent of Mughal control in India; reversed previous policies to purify Islam of Hindu influences; incessant warfare depleted the empire's resources; died in 1707. | 21 |
AP World Vocab Flashcards
the complete idiot's guide to world history vocab section
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| 381977406 | absolute monarchs | Type of government that arose in Europe during the seventeenth century in which the monarch controlled nation-state for the greater benefit of the people. | 0 | |
| 381977407 | alphabet script | Written communication in which symbols represent speech, sounds, and/or letters. | 1 | |
| 381977408 | animism | Belief that life is produced by a spiritual force that is separate from matter; Sometimes includes the belief in the existence of spirits and demons which inhabit particular objects. | 2 | |
| 381977409 | anti-Semitism | Hostility and discrimination toward the Jewish people. | 3 | |
| 381977410 | apartheid | Legal and institutional separation of black and whites that existed in South Africa during most of the twentieth century. | 4 | |
| 381977411 | authoritarianism | Enforcement of unquestioning obedience to authority without individual freedom; dictatorships characterize this type of rule. | 5 | |
| 381977412 | B.C.E. | Newer historical terms which replaces B.C. and stands for Before the Common Era. | 6 | |
| 381977413 | bureaucracy | Administrative system based on nonelected officials, policies, and procedures. | 7 | |
| 381977414 | C.E. | Newer historical term which replaces A.D. and stands for Common Era. | 8 | |
| 381977415 | caste system | System in which people obtain their tank in the society from their birth parents; change of rank or class in this system is very difficult. | 9 | |
| 381977416 | city-state | Form of political organization in which a city-based ruler controls the surrounding countryside. | 10 | |
| 381977417 | civilization | Society that has developed systematic agriculture to produce a food surplus in addition to an elite and merchant class. | 11 | |
| 381977418 | colonization | New settlement of people linked to the parent country through trade and government control. | 12 | |
| 381977419 | Colombian Exchange | Exchange of goods, plants, animals, and also diseases that happened after Columbus' initial discovery between Europe and the Americas. | 13 | |
| 381977420 | communism | Economic theory which advocates the ownership of property by the community as a whole. | 14 | |
| 381977421 | conservative | Policies that support tradition and stability; during the early nineteenth century, conservatives believed in obedience to political authority and the importance of organized religion. | 15 | |
| 381977422 | coup d'état | French term to designate sudden, violent, and forcible overthrow of a government by a small group of people with military or political authority. | 16 | |
| 381977423 | cultural diffusion | Exchange of culture between societies. | 17 | |
| 381977424 | culture | Ideas, customs, language, and skills of a society that are transmitted through time. | 18 | |
| 381977425 | cuneiform | Wedge-shaped writing produced on clay tablets developed by the Sumerians. | 19 | |
| 381977426 | democracy | Government by the people; directly or elected by representatives. | 20 | |
| 381977427 | détente | Lessening of tensions between nations due to treaties or trade agreements. | 21 | |
| 381977428 | dynasty | Family of rulers who pass on the right to rule within the family. | 22 | |
| 381977429 | empire | Government that controls several different territories and people. | 23 | |
| 381977430 | empiricism | Belief that sensory experience through observations and experiments is the only source of human knowledge. | 24 | |
| 381977431 | enlightened monarchs | Rulers who used the principles of the Enlightenment during their rule while also maintaining their absolute powers. | 25 | |
| 381977432 | enlightenment | Intellectual movement centered in Europe during the eighteenth century that featured the application of scientific methods to the study of sociey; belief that rational laws and reason can describe society. | 26 | |
| 381977433 | environmentalism | Use of policies to solve environmental problems such as pollution, shortage of natural resources, and population growth. | 27 | |
| 381977434 | epic poem | Long poem that details the deeds of heroes. | 28 | |
| 381977435 | fascisim | Government led by dictator that glorifies the state of the above individual. | 29 | |
| 381977436 | feudalism | Economic, political, and social system in which land, worked by peasants who are bound to it, is held by a lord in exchange for military service to an overlord. | 30 | |
| 381977437 | filial piety | Duty of family members to lower their needs and desires to those of the male head of the family or ruler. | 31 | |
| 381977438 | globalization | Interconnectedness of the nations of the world in communication, commerce, culture and politics. | 32 | |
| 381977439 | Green Revolution | Development of better types of rice, corn, and other grains that have better yields per acre than traditional crops. | 33 | |
| 381977440 | gunpowder empires | Empires formed by unifying different regions through conquest based on the superior use of firearms. | 34 | |
| 381977441 | hominids | Humans or human-like creatures that walk upright. | 35 | |
| 381977442 | humanism | System of thought with man at the center; man is the sum of all things. | 36 | |
| 381977443 | iconoclasm | Policies that oppose the religious use of images and advocate the destruction of such images. | 37 | |
| 381977444 | ideographic script | Written script in which a graphic symbol represents an idea, concept, or object without expressing the sound that forms its name. | 38 | |
| 381977445 | imperialism | Extension of political and cultural power over many different regions. | 39 | |
| 381977446 | Industrial Revolution | Technological revolution starting in England in the mid-seventeenth century in which newly invented machines were used in production leading to population, agricultural, and commercial growth. | 40 | |
| 381977447 | Inquisition | General tribunal used to discover and confront heresy in the Roman Catholic Church during the late Middle Ages. | 41 | |
| 381977448 | liberalism | Intellectual movement based on the ideas of the Enlightenment with several loosely assembled tenets; people were to be free as possible from government restraint; government was to be used to protect the civil liberties of the people; emphasis on the use of representative assemblies in which voting and office should be limited to men of property; the rule of constitutions. | 42 | |
| 381977449 | Marxism | Intellectual movement developed by Karl Marx in the nineteenth century in which history was defined as a class struggle between groups without power and groups controlling the means of production. | 43 | |
| 381977450 | mercantilism | Economic policy that many European governments pursued during the eighteenth and nineteenth century; nation was to export more valuable goods than they imported; theoretically the pursuit of this policy makes a nation rich and powerful by keeping economic resources in the country. | 44 | |
| 381977451 | Middle Passage | Voyages of African slaves from Africa to the Americas that occurred from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. | 45 | |
| 381977452 | migration | Movement of people from one region to another. | 46 | |
| 381977453 | militarism | Dependence on military strength to obtain political objectives. | 47 | |
| 381977454 | modernism | Artistic and literary movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in which artists intentionally moved away from all previous artistic styles. | 48 | |
| 381977455 | monotheism | Religious worship of a single god. | 49 | |
| 381977456 | nationalism | Belief that a nation should be made of people who have a common language, traditions, religions, and customs. | 50 | |
| 381977457 | Neolithic Revolution | Period of time in which systematic agriculture and the domestication of animals occurred; varies from 8000 to 5000 B.C.E.depending on the region. | 51 | |
| 381977458 | nomads | Herding societies that move from place to place in search of better pastureland. | 52 | |
| 381977459 | Old Regime | Social system of eighteenth century France that consisted of three estates: clergy, nobility, and middle/lower class. | 53 | |
| 381977460 | oligarchy | Government ruled by an elite and powerful few. | 54 | |
| 381977461 | Pax Mongolia | Period of time in which transregional trade and commerce was renewed under the watch of the Mongolian armies. | 55 | |
| 382981639 | Pax Romana | Period of 200 years of relative peace in Roman History. | 56 | |
| 382981640 | polis | Greek city-state which included the city and the surrounding countryside which it controlled and used for farming. | 57 | |
| 382981641 | polytheistic | Religious worship of many different gods. | 58 | |
| 382981642 | realism | Artistic movement of the mid-nineteenth century that sought to portray life as it really was. | 59 | |
| 382981643 | Reformation | Religious movement of the sixteenth century originating with Martin Luther; demanded the reform of the Roman Catholic Church; resulted in the division of the church. | 60 | |
| 382981644 | Renaissance | Cultural and political movement that began in Italy during the fifteenth century; development of literature and art that were more secular than that of the Middle Ages. | 61 | |
| 382981645 | republic | Government in which leader acquires consent of the governed through voting. | 62 | |
| 382981646 | rogue nation | Nation that acts outside the boundaries of international law and diplomacy. | 63 | |
| 382981647 | Romanticism | Artistic and literar movement of nineteenth century Europe; belief that emotion is key to understanding human experience. | 64 | |
| 382981648 | satellite state | Small state that is economically and/or politically dependent on a larger more powerful state; they adjust their policies based on the desires of the larger state. | 65 | |
| 382981649 | Scientific Revolution | Intellectual movement of seventeenth century Europe that used empiricism to develop wider scientific and theoretical generalizations. | 66 | |
| 382981650 | secularism | Intellectual movement that rejects the use of religion or religious consideration. | 67 | |
| 382981651 | Silk Road | Trading routes that connected European, Indian, and Chinese civilizations transmitting goods and ideas. | 68 | |
| 382981652 | socialism | Political movement that started in Europe during the nineteenth century; wanted the state to control the means of production to create equality in society. | 69 | |
| 382981653 | sultanate | Region ruled by the authority and office of a strictly Islamic monarch. | 70 | |
| 382981654 | terrorism | Use of force or threats to demoralize or intimidate in order to obtain political objectives. | 71 | |
| 382981655 | theocrat | Ruler who claims to have the sanction of a god or gods in directing a government; claims have a powerful effect if the religion is culturally important. | 72 | |
| 382981656 | Ptolemaic system | Belief advanced by the second century Greek mathematician that Earth was a fixed point and the celestial bodies orbited around it | 73 | |
| 382981657 | total war | Warfare that involves the mobilization of an entire nation including its civilian population. | 74 | |
| 382981658 | triangular trade network | Network that emerged during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries; manufactured goods were traded in Africa for slaves; slaves were shipped to the Americas where they were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, and raw cotton; those products were shipped to Europe to be made into finished goods which went back to the colonies or to Africa to begin the trading network again. | 75 | |
| 382981659 | Westernization | Process in which a nation adopts the culture and institutions that typify the West. | 76 | |
| 382981660 | Zionism | Movement that argued that the Jewish people must return to the region of Palestine. | 77 |
Dates for AP World Flashcards
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| 382079967 | 8000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
| 382079968 | 3000 B.C.E. | Beginnings of Bronze Age- early civ's | 1 | |
| 382079969 | 1300 B.C.E. | Iron Age | 2 | |
| 382079970 | 6th century B.C.E. | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao, Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
| 382079971 | 5th century B.C.E. | Greek Golden Age- philosophers | 4 | |
| 382079972 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
| 382079973 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin unified China | 6 | |
| 382079974 | 32 C.E. | Beginnings of Chrisitanity | 7 | |
| 382079975 | 180 C.E. | End of Pax Romana | 8 | |
| 382079976 | 220 C.E. | End of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
| 382079977 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
| 382079978 | 4th century | Beginnings of Trans-Sahara Trade Routes | 11 | |
| 382079979 | 476 | Fall of Rome | 12 | |
| 382079980 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
| 382079981 | 632 | Rise of Islam | 14 | |
| 382079982 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
| 382079983 | 1054 | First Schism in Christian Church | 16 | |
| 382079984 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
| 382079985 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 18 | |
| 382079986 | 1095 | First Crusade | 19 | |
| 382079987 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
| 382079988 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
| 382079989 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
| 382079990 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
| 382079991 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
| 382079992 | 1433 | End of Zheng He's voyages/ Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
| 382079993 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
| 382079994 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
| 382079995 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
| 382079996 | 1502 | Slaves to Americas | 29 | |
| 382079997 | 1517 | Martin Luther/ 95 theses | 30 | |
| 382079998 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
| 382079999 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
| 382080000 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
| 382080001 | 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armanda by the British | 34 | |
| 382080002 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara- beginning of Tokuguawa | 35 | |
| 382080003 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
| 382080004 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
| 382080005 | 1683 | Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
| 382080006 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
| 382080007 | 1750 | Industrial Revolution | 40 | |
| 382080008 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/ French and Indian War | 41 | |
| 382080009 | 1776 | American Revolution/ Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 42 | |
| 382080010 | 1789 | French Revolution | 43 | |
| 382080011 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 44 | |
| 382080012 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 45 | |
| 382080013 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 46 | |
| 382080014 | 1839 | First opium war in China | 47 | |
| 382080015 | 1848 | European revolutions/ Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto | 48 | |
| 382080016 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 49 | |
| 382080017 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 50 | |
| 382080018 | 1861 | End of Russian serfdom/ Italian unification | 51 | |
| 382080019 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 52 | |
| 382080020 | 1871 | German unification | 53 | |
| 382080021 | 1885 | Berlin Conference- division of Africa | 54 | |
| 382080022 | 1898 | Spanish-American War- US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico | 55 | |
| 382080023 | 1899 | Boer War- British in control of South Africa | 56 | |
| 382080024 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war | 57 | |
| 382080025 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 58 | |
| 382080026 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 59 | |
| 382080027 | 1914 | World War I | 60 | |
| 382080028 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 61 | |
| 382080029 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles- end of World War I | 62 | |
| 382080030 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | 63 | |
| 382080031 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 64 | |
| 382080032 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 65 | |
| 382080033 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 66 | |
| 382080034 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into World War II | 67 | |
| 382080035 | 1945 | End of World War II | 68 | |
| 382080036 | 1947 | Independence and partition of India | 69 | |
| 382080037 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 70 | |
| 382080038 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 71 | |
| 382080039 | 1950-1953 | Korean Revolution | 72 | |
| 382080040 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 73 | |
| 382080041 | 1956 | De-Stalinization/ Nationalization of Suez Canal | 74 | |
| 382080042 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 75 | |
| 382080043 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 76 | |
| 382080044 | 1967 | 6-day war/ Chinese Cultural Revolution | 77 | |
| 382080045 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 78 | |
| 382080046 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 79 | |
| 382080047 | 1987 | First Palestinian Intifada | 80 | |
| 382080048 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin Wall | 81 | |
| 382080049 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/ First Gulf war | 82 | |
| 382080050 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda/ first all race election in South Africa | 83 | |
| 382080051 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 84 |
AFRICA THE BEAST Flashcards
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| 401005896 | algeria | algiers | 1 | |
| 401005897 | limpopo | polokwane | 2 | |
| 401005898 | angola | luanda | 3 | |
| 401005899 | benin | porto-novo | 4 | |
| 401005900 | botswana | gaborone | 5 | |
| 401005901 | burkina faso | ouagadougou | 6 | |
| 401005902 | burundi | bujumbura | 7 | |
| 401005903 | cameroon | yaounde | 8 | |
| 401005904 | cape verde | praia | 9 | |
| 401005905 | central african republic | bangui | 10 | |
| 401005906 | chad | n'djamena | 11 | |
| 401005907 | comoros | moroni | 12 | |
| 401005908 | congo | brazzaville | 13 | |
| 401005909 | cote d'ivoire | abidjan | 14 | |
| 401005910 | democratic republic of congo | kinshasa | 15 | |
| 401005911 | mauritius | port louis | 16 | |
| 401005912 | morocco | rabat | 17 | |
| 401005913 | mozambique | maputo | 18 | |
| 401005914 | namibia | windhoek | 19 | |
| 401005915 | niger | niamey | 20 | |
| 401005916 | nigeria | abuja | 21 | |
| 401005917 | rwanda | kigali | 22 | |
| 401005918 | sao tome and principe | sao tome | 23 | |
| 401005919 | senegal | dakar | 24 | |
| 401005920 | seychelles | victoria | 25 | |
| 401005921 | sierra leone | freetown | 26 | |
| 401005922 | somalia | mogadishu | 27 | |
| 401005923 | south africa | pretoria | 28 | |
| 401005924 | sudan | khartoum | 29 | |
| 401005925 | swaziland | mbabane | 30 | |
| 401005926 | tanzania | dodoma | 31 | |
| 401005927 | togo | lome | 32 | |
| 401005928 | tunisia | tunis | 33 | |
| 401005929 | uganda | kampala | 34 | |
| 401005930 | zambia | lusaka | 35 | |
| 401005931 | zimbabwe | harare | 36 | |
| 401005932 | djibouti | djibouti | 37 | |
| 401005933 | egypt | cairo | 38 | |
| 401005934 | equatorial guinea | malabo | 39 | |
| 401005935 | eritrea | asmara | 40 | |
| 401005936 | ethiopia | addis ababa | 41 | |
| 401005937 | gabon | libreville | 42 | |
| 401005938 | gambia | banjul | 43 | |
| 401005939 | ghana | accra | 44 | |
| 401005940 | guinea | conakry | 45 | |
| 401005941 | guinea-bissau | bissau | 46 | |
| 401005942 | kenya | nairobi | 47 | |
| 401005943 | lesotho | maseru | 48 | |
| 401005944 | liberia | monrovia | 49 | |
| 401005945 | libya | tripoli | 50 | |
| 401005946 | madagascar | antananarivo | 51 | |
| 401005947 | malawi | lilongwe | 52 | |
| 401005948 | mali | bamako | 53 | |
| 401005949 | mauritania | nouakchott | 54 |
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