AP World History Semester Exam 1 Flashcards

123248777	Cities differed from neolithic villages in two ways.	Cities were larger and more complex. Cities influenced the economic, political, and cultural life of larger regions.	0
123248778	The relationship between settled peoples such as the sumerians and nomadic groups like the Indo-Europeans was a state of interdependency that was chiefly reliant on	acceptance and adaptation of aspects of technology, religion, and social order by the nomads	1
123248779	characteristics in common between Hindu and Buddhism	concept of reincarnation	2
123248780	distinguished life following the neolithic revolution from life during the paleolithic period	neolithic people moved away from nomadic herding lifes to settled farming communities	3
123248781	Similarity of Confucianism and Hinduism	both advocate a rigid social hierarchy with limited opportunity for social mobility	4
123248782	Enuma Elish	Creation featured how and why humans appeared evolved, this story emphasized the fact that humans were held in an exalted position, also above all other creations	5
123248783	Mandate of heaven	it stated that heavenly powers grated deserving individuals the right to govern	6
123248784	Hunting and gathering societies	a subsistence lifestyle, limited trade, little specialization of labor	7
123248785	main innovative idea in Hammurabi's law code	a consistent set of regulations should govern society	8
123248786	Developed world's first alphabet	phoenicians	9
123248787	Not one of Rome's Legacies	adopted islamic religion as official faith of empire	10
123248788	Indian caste system	no social mobility	11
123248789	athens	city-state were democracy emerged in	12
123248790	Expansion of Rome during Pax Romana dependent on	imperial expansion	13
123248791	Social hierarchy developed in Mesopotamia societies	laws recognizing the familial and social superiority of men	14
123248792	Greek ideas of government differed from romans in that	greeks opposed large political units	15
123248793	East rome empire experienced less decline than West except for	east had more active trade	16
123248794	cultural diffusion	spread of buddha in china is	17
123248795	faith in authority	socratic method inforced this	18
123248796	in classical period both china and india	welcomed influences from other cultures	19
123248797	mauryan differed the gupta in that	they were imposed by conquerors from greece	20
123248798	chine view of nature emphasized	nature uncontrollable	21
123248799	classical civilization differed from river-valley in that classical	trade was introduced	22
123248800	population size and life expectancy	what did develpment of agriculture not cause	23
123248801	turkey considered most strategically and economically important b/c	the Mediterranean and black sea connect there	24
123248802	out of africa thesis	says modern humans emerged in africa	25
123248803	slash and burn	least advanced farming technique	26
123248804	gender relationships up to 1000 b.c.e	women enjoyed more freedom in some societies	27
123248805	Indian ocean	site of thousand of yrs of trade and economic exchange, reached by pacific and Atlantic, extends until east coast of africa	28
123248806	feudalism in europe	led to major class difference in society	29
123248807	not reason for crusade	black death	30
123248808	flying buttresses and slender spires are examples of what architecture	gothic	31
123248809	place in africa that remained Christian	ethiopia	32
123248810	700's-1200's most culturally advanced civilization	islamic world	33
123248811	religion arrived in Indonesia in 1200 and became dominant there	islam	34
123248812	why were mongol successful ant conquest	adopted advanced technology quick,armies efficiently organized, talented calvarymen	35
123248813	the golden horde	mongol khanate ruled russia from 1200's to 1400's	36
123248814	why development of strong big political units occurred later and slower in sub-shahara africa than other regions in world?	b/c had a lot of languages and dialects	37
123248815	Events in islamic history in order	gabriels relevation to Muhammad, the hegira, split of Sunni and shi'te(shi), abbasid caliphate	38
123248816	slavery during 600-1400 in sub-sahara africa	only muslims could own and sell slaves	39
123248817	Baghdad	Abbasid claiphate capital	40
123248818	not reason for expansion of islam beyond arabia	the desire to convert ppl	41
123248819	suffi movement	incorporated mysticism w/t trend toward evangelism	42
123248820	sudan and swahili	islam most profound in region of	43
123248821	clerical celibacy	NOT adopted by russian orthodox	44
123248822	church in Constantinople built by Justinian	hagia Sophia	45
123248823	feudalism	land for military service and loyalty	46
123248824	after fall of Rome, center of post classical in	central plain of north europe france, low countries, south and west germany	47
123248825	result of 100 yrs war in 14th and 15th centuries	kings ditched feudal army for paid army	48
123248826	split inheritance by inca	political powers & titles went to ruler successor, wealth kept in hands of male descendants to support cult of the dead mummy	49
123248827	impact of expansion& conquest on aztec social system	form loose association of clans, it then became a stratified society	50
123248828	difference btwn andean and mesoamerica civilizations	climate and geography	51
123248829	Song compare to Tang	song had less land than tang	52
123248830	way foot binding diminish independence of chinese women by end of song era	it crippled women, diminished their mobility so they were always at home	53
123248831	why grand canal necessary	Yangtze river valley becoming major food-producing region of china by end of tang era	54
123248832	status of women in tang-song era	male dominance within family and beyond was pronounced in thinking of neo-confucian philosophers	55
123248833	Sui	came after fall of qin-han	56
123248834	bushi	warrior leaders in 10th cnetury japan contolled provincial area & ruled small fortresses in countryside	57
123248835	the tribe	basic unit of mongol society	58
123248836	accounts for growing political dominance of moscow under mongol rule	princes were tax collectors for mongols khans & became seat of metropolitan of orthodox church	59
123248837	italian humanism	focused on human kind as center of intellectual and artistic endeavor	60
123248838	johannes gutenberg	invention of movable type in west	61
123248839	Kuther got widespread support form german elite b\c	German princes who turned protestant could increase independence from emperor, get church lands, control church in their lands	62
123248840	mercantilsm	gvmnt should promote internal economy to improve tax revenues and limit imports from foreign countries	63
123248841	enlightment	intellectual movement came after scientific revolution in the 18th century	64
123248842	British policies towards Mughal India in 17th century	britiian placed tarrifs to destroy cotton industry in India as means of protecting British cloth industry	65
123248843	Ivan III	russian leader freed large part of Russia from mongol control in 15 th century	66
123248844	Aspects of wester culture Peter The Great emulated in russia	streamlined bureaucracy and reorganized military	67
123248845	Catherine the greats attitude towards program of westernization	she flirted vigorously with the ideas of french enlighment, but she failed to abolish serfdom	68
123248846	NOT result of Europe Maritime Dominance	all regions of asia were for the first time subject to monopolization of trade by western nations	69
123248847	purpose of early English voyages to U.S	to discover northwest passage to India	70
123248848	Mid 18th century Western society was	agricultural changes, commercialism, manufacturing had combined to produce a rapidly growing population in west	71