AP World History Semester Review Flashcards

113633129	feudalism	system in which poor people are legally bound to work for wealthy landowners	0
113633130	Enlightenment	French intellectual movement featuring scientific advance, scientific method and belief that rational law explains social behavior	1
113633131	Taika Reforms	Japanese attempt to make the monarch strictly Chinese by creating a professional bureaucracy and peasant army	2
113633132	hajj	Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca	3
113633133	hacienda	Spanish colonial estates that produced goods for America	4
113633134	Li Yuan (duke of Tang)	minister for Yangdi who took over following Yangdi's assasination, forming the Tang dynasty	5
113633135	Yang Guifei	royal concubine during reign of Xuanzong who caused a rebellion by including relatives into royal administration	6
113633136	Xi Xia	led Tangut people, north of the Song; collected tribute that drained Song resources and burdened Chinese peasants	7
113633137	Hangzhou	capital of Song dynasty that promoted trade and was a cultural center in Asia	8
113633138	Wendi	emperor who established Sui dynasty	9
113633139	Pure Land Buddhism	emphasized salvationist aspects of Chinese Buddhism; popular amond the masses of Chinese society.	10
113633140	Where did Muhammad have his first revelation?	Cave of Hira	11
113633141	What is Hijra?	Muslim holiday celebrating Muhammad's escape from Mecca to Medina	12
113633142	What is the sharia?	Muslim law regulating daily life	13
113633143	What spurred ancient Greek expansion?	lack of resources	14
113633144	What made political unity difficult in ancient Greece?	mountainous terrain	15
113633145	How did Russia expansionism keep serfdom on the rise?	cossacks	16
113633146	What religion did Asoka base his rule and life on?	Buddhism	17
113633147	What type of government did Shi Huangdi implement?	strong and centralized with military expansion emphasis	18