Chapter 2 for AP World History! Flashcards
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| 205686006 | Loess | fine light silt deposited by wind and water; fertile soil of yellow river valley in N.China; not compacted, could lead to earthquakes | 0 | |
| 205686007 | Shang | People in earliest chinese dynasty; ancestor worship, use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes = shang culture | 1 | |
| 205686008 | Divination | Techniques for asserting the future; Will of gods by interpreting natural pheromena | 2 | |
| 205686009 | Zhou | The vigorous early period; defeated the shain and created the manifestation | 3 | |
| 205686010 | Mandate of Heaven | Developed by Zhou ; to grant power to ruler and to to take it away if ruler doesnt fufill the his duties | 4 | |
| 205686011 | Legalism | political idea people only behave with strict laws and harsh punishment and sacrafice their personal freedom | 5 | |
| 205686012 | Confucius | chinese philosopher kongzi; ideas of duty & public service influenced gov. officials and chinese thought | 6 | |
| 205686013 | Daoism | believed that world is always changing and went with the flow; dont think much, let things happen. | 7 | |
| 205686014 | Yin Yang | The nature of male/female in the world; maintain equal equalibrium (everything is even) | 8 | |
| 205686015 | Kush | kingdom of nubia, along nile, south of egypt | 9 | |
| 205686016 | Meroé | capitol of S.nubia, independence from egypt and influence from africa | 10 | |
| 205686017 | Olmec | Mesoamerican civilization (central mexico) advances in economics and construction influenced later societies (art, culture, &ball game) | 11 | |
| 205686018 | Chavin | The first important american civilization; capitol is in Andes mountain of peru; politically and economically dominated w/ 2 zones. peruvian coastal plain and andian foothills | 12 | |
| 205686019 | Llama | In Andes Mountains in S.America; provided meat &wool &transportation of goods for trade zones | 13 |