ap world questons Flashcards

95770995	What do the words lex talianos relate too?	Eye for an eye	0
95770996	The epic of Gilgamesh deals with several subjects, what are they?	3 out of 4 Meaning of life and death, Human Friendship, Relationship between gods and humans	1
95770997	Egypt was united in 3100B.C.E by what conqueror?	Menes	2
95770998	What pharaoh tried unsuccessfully to make Egypt monotheistic?	Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV)	3
95770999	ll archeological evidence from early Indian history suggests what two places had central authority?	Harrapa and Mohenjo-Daro	4
95771000	What group may have been the first people to domesticate horses and hitch animals to wagons, had original homeland in Ukraine, and spread variations of their language from India to Europe?	Indo-Eupopeans	5
95771001	What is the Varna hierarchy?	The Hindu caste system (Brahmin Kshatraya Vaishva Shudra)	6
95771002	By 5 thousand B.C.E Mesoamericans had discovered potential of what crop?	Maize	7
95771003	Who destroyed the ceremonial centers of San Lorenzo and La Venta?	Internal uprising	8
95771004	What was the first society of Mesoamerica that founded traditions that will be followed by all following civilizations?	Olmec	9
95771005	Why were many of literary works of the Chinese destroyed?	New Dynasties didn't agree with past Dynasties	10
95771006	What group collapsed due to internal dissension and civil war, failure of water control and spread of epidemic diseases in the Americas like yellow fever?	Mayans	11
95771007	What American culture had a system of writing, concept of zero and most elaborate calendar?	Mayan	12
95771008	What cult produced deities with the features of humans and wild animals in Americas?	Chavin	13
95771009	When did the Chinese begin an extensive use of writing?	Shang Dynasty	14
95771010	Whose policies are closely resemble these: strong centralized rule, huge public project, disarming regional military?	Shi Huangdi	15
95771011	What is the philosophy which criticized social activism and instead proposed a life in reflection and introspection in china?	Daoism	16
95771012	Name the person whose most important contribution to china was establishing a president for central imperial rule?	Han Whodi	17
95771013	In 124B.C.E. Han Wudi transformed china by doing what?	He proposed Confucianism to government in Universities	18
95771014	The first ruler to unify India was?	Chandragupta Maurya	19
95771015	The high point of Maryan success would come during the reign of whom?	Ashoka	20
95771016	What is the collection of Confucian sayings and teachings called?	Analects	21
95771017	What two great Indian epics commonly portrayed women as weak willed and emotional creatures?	Mahabharata and the Ramayana	22
95771018	What religions were popular during the roman empire?	Christianity, Mithraism, Judaism	23
95771019	Jesus of Nazareth's followers called him the Christ which mean what?	The anointed	24
95771020	In Rome, whose political philosophy favored liberal policies and social reform?	Julius Caesar	25
95771021	What were the latifundia?	Roman estates similar to manors	26
95771022	In the early period of Roman expansion the eastern half of the Mediterranean was dominated by the Antigonids, the salusids and the talamayids while the western half was controlled by whom?	Carthaginans	27
95771023	The turning point in roman history was their struggle in the punic wars against who?	Carthage	28
95771024	In an effort to alleviate social tensions, what group was allowed to elect 2 and then 10 tribunes?	Pelbians	29
95771025	Which of the Hellenistic philosophies viewed pleasure as the greatest good?	eupicurians	30
95771026	Who wrote the Bacchae?	Euripides	31
95771027	In a disaster which the Byzantine empire never really recovered Constantinople was sacked in 1204 by whom?	The 4th crusade (Norman Knights)	32
95771028	Direct to the Byzantine emperor arose in the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown the what Frankish king?	Charlemagne	33
95771029	Emperor Leo the III inaugurated the divisive ecclesiastical policy called what?	Iconoclasm	34
95771030	In 1054 the pope and the patriarch in Constantinople did what?	The Great Schism; the two churches seperated	35
95771031	Justinian issued what and won recognition as definitive codification of Roman law: Corpus Iruris ciuilis Constantinople fell in 1453 to whom?	Ottoman Turks	36
95771032	What is the name system historians use when the emperor has political and religious authority?	Caesaropapism	37
95771033	In 325C.E. what decided that Jesus possessed both human and divine natures?	Council of Nicea	38
95771034	The Tang planned to avoid the concentration of land of the wealthy and the resulting unrest was called what?	Equal Field System	39
95771035	What Islamic thinker studied Aristotle and thought in turn influenced rise of European scholasticism?	Ibn Rushd	40
95771036	What Sui construction would have important economic implications well into 20th century?	Great Canal	41
95771037	In 1185 the Minimoto clan defeated their rival the Tyra clan and created what?	Kamakura Shogunate	42
95771038	When was the Chinese influence on Japan most profound?	Heian period	43
95771039	What is the most popular school of thought of Buddhism in China?	Chan Buddhism	44
95771040	What is the most important virtue of Boshido?	Loyalty	45
95771041	What was brought to an end by an invasion of the white Huns in 451 C.E?	Gupta Dynasty	46
95771042	In 711 the northern Indian area of Sind fell to what group?	Umayyad Dynasty	47
95771043	What Islamic leader lead 17 different raiding expeditions into India during 11th century?	Mahmud of Ghazni	48
95771044	Who was the most important figure in providing the roman church with the sense of direction during the early middle ages by reasserting papal primacy?	Pope Gregory 1	49