AP World History Final Exam Review (Part 2): Places Flashcards
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177438859 | Gupta | Modern northern India | 0 | |
177438860 | Gupta | Created the decimal system, concepts of pi and zero, achievement in architecture, painting, sculpture, philosophy, literature and science | 1 | |
177438861 | Gupta | Chandra Gupta II | 2 | |
177438862 | Gupta | Patronage of Hinduism, brahmans were high priests and political advisors, intermarriage with family, Indian art was the center of everything | 3 | |
177438863 | Zhou | China, along the Hunghe/Yellow River | 4 | |
177438864 | Zhou | Extended the territory of China (Middle Kingdom), wheat-growing (North) and rice-growing (South), population growth, heightened the focus on central government, ruled through alliances with regional princes and noble families (Shang rulers) | 5 | |
177438865 | Zhou | Mandate of Heaven, greater cultural unity, banned human sacrifice, enforced more ceremonies to worship Gods, polytheism, linguistic unity, mandarin Chinese (language), oral epics and stories | 6 | |
177438866 | Qin | Wei Valley of Eastern China | 7 | |
177438867 | Qin | First true dynasty of China, introduced new weapons, cross bows, and cavalry warfare, built thousands of miles of roads, Great Wall of China, concept of a strong emperor, and importance of a bureaucracy | 8 | |
177438868 | Qin | Shi Huangdi made China dictatorial and tightly centralized law code nation | 9 | |
177438869 | Qin | Central Authority, legalism, disdained confucian writers | 10 | |
177438870 | Ancient Greece | Balkan Peninsula, Mediterranean | 11 | |
177438871 | Ancient Greece | City-staes (Polis) along mediterranean, called foreigners barbarian, monumental architecture, (sparta and athens), democracy | 12 | |
177438872 | Ancient Greece | Pericles (dominated Athenian politics), Alexander the Great (military empire), Xerxes (plan to conquer), Aristotle (Socrates and Plato) | 13 | |
177438873 | Ancient Greece | Hellenistic period, polytheistic, Indo-Europena peoples, Olympic games | 14 | |
177438874 | Ancient Rome | Italian Peninsula and Mediterranean | 15 | |
177438875 | Ancient Rome | Republic, covered criminal, civil, & religious law. Equal under law, innocent til proven guilty, code of Justinian, Pax Romana; Long period of peace, Architecture, Golden Age! (art, architecture,philosophy, aqueducts, drama, mathematics, & science) | 16 | |
177438876 | Ancient Rome | Julius Caesar (dictator and bridge) & Caesar Augustus | 17 | |
177438877 | Ancient Rome | Twelve Tables "innocent until proven guilty", paterfamilias, low class (plebian), upperclass (patrician), city of carthage, punic wars | 18 |