Barron's Unit 2 Flashcards

AP World History Unit 2, Barrons

152920438	What are 4 things encourage growth of an advanced civilization?	The presence of a nearby river, temperate climatic conditions, proximity to a lakeshore or seacoast, rich metal deposits in the neighboring hills	0
152920439	What is an example to resource extraction?	Mining for iron ore	1
152920440	What do the Code of Hammurabi and Roman law have in common?	The represented a step away from the arbitrary exercise of power	2
152920441	How were women generally treated in Stone Age societies?	Although not as pronounced as it would later becomes, gender division of labor was the norm	3
152920442	What are 4 things associated with the Neolithic revolution?	Domestication of many types of animals, widespread adoption of agriculture, emergence of the first cities, the rapid growth of global population	4
152920443	What terms accurately describe agricultural societies?	allowed humans to manipulate their environments, Women played a key role in the transition, promoted formation of permanent settlements, People began producing their own food about 12,000 years ago.	5
152920444	In an oligarchy...	a small elite group hold political power	6
152920445	Why are rivers so important in the development of early civilizations?	They make full-scale agricultural production easier	7
152920446	Where did slave trade prevail?	Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas	8
152920447	In what way are the histories of the Bantu and the Polynesians similar?	Their migrations led to the dispersal of a single ethnocultural group over vast distances	9
152920448	What is a major similarity between Hinduism and Buddhism?	Both rest on a belief in karma and reincarnation	10
152920449	What is diffusion in the context of early societal development?	The spread of goods, ideas, and inventions from one people to another	11
152920450	What did the Indian caste system prohibit?	Social mobility	12
152920451	What caused the fall of the Indus River civilization?	Environmental factors	13
152920452	What do Shinto and Egyptian sun worship have in common?	They both legitimated the authority of a powerful monarch	14
152920453	In what way did the Olmec and Andean civilizations develop among similar lines?	Both arise without the benefit of a river nearby	15
152920454	Early Islamic political thought included the belief that...	The islamic political and religious community should be identical	16
152920455	What are 4 of Rome's cultural legacies?	Respect and preservation of Greek culture, roads and fortifications, legal code, sophisticated engineering and construction skills	17
152920456	"The ruler should be just, those who are ruled should be loyal. The father should be loving, the son respectful" are from which belief system?	Confucianism	18