AP World History Flashcards

Chapter 7

224715042	Armenia	one of the earliest christian kingdoms situated in east Anatolia and West caucasus *occupied by speaker of the Arminius language	0
224715043	Rain Forest	High precipitation forest zones Americas, Africa, Asia *Lying between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn	1
224715044	Indian Ocean Maritime system	Network of Sea Ports across Indian Ocean and S. China Sea trade routes maritime Culture established by multilingual/cultural people few records *Formed strong economic+social ties between E. Africa, S. Arabia, Persian Gulf, India, SE. Asia, S. China	2
224715045	Savanna	a region of tall grasses with scattered trees Tropical or Subtropical Sub-Saharan and South America Easily crossed E-W	3
224715046	Bantu	Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African Languages and People who speak these languages word means "people" in most off these languages	4
224715047	Swahili	Bantu Language Arabic loanwords *spoken in coastal regions of E. Africa	5
224715048	Small traditions	local, issalated traditions localized, illiterate, set of customs and belliefs to a singal society *often conjunction with "Great Traditions"	6
224715049	Sahel	"the coast" or "shore of desert" southern coast of sahara easily crossed E-W dry grassland *farmers acted as a middleman in trade	7
224715050	Sub-Saharan Africa	Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara part of Indian Ocean network	8
224715051	Ethiopia	Christian kingdom developed in the highlands of eastern Africa developed under the dynasty of King Lalaibela retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa	9
224715052	Sassanid Empire	224-600 SW Iran Continuation of rivalry between Rome and Partians- defeated Partians 224 Cities were small and walled in- military protected long distant trade cotton, sugar cane, rice, citrus trees, eggplant, other crops from India and china *zoroastrism and Christianity	10
224715053	Stirrup	Device for securing a horseman's feet, enabling him to wield weapons more effectively. Kushan people of northern Afghanistan *first century C.E.	11
224715054	Silk Road	major trade route over land from china to roman empire months to traverse pastoral communities along the route provided shelter and supplies to traveling merchants- payment spread of cultural ideas, deseases-smallpox and measles	12
224715055	Great traditions	historians term for a literate, well-institutionalized complex of religiouis and socila beliefs and practices adhered to by diverse societies over a broad geographical area written or oral languages belief system Ethical Codes, written records	13
224715056	Partians	people originally from Caspian sea major force 247 BCE- begins in Iran located on the threshold of C.Asia shared customs with steppes nomads- helped foster silk road. *wars with Greeks and Romans prevented travelers from Mediterranean region from gaining knowledge of their kingdom	14
224715057	Trans-Saharan Caravan routes	Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara 300BCE lack of water restricted trade to only a few routes known only to desert nomads started as a scarcelypath----> very popular	15
224715058	Steppes	treeless plains, especially eurasia little/no rain Good lands for nomads- pronounced hourse breeding and military skill development essential to rise of the Mongol Empire	16