AP World History Study Guide Flashcards
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| 116705954 | 2000- 20th century; 2001- 21st century; 1542- 16th century | putting dates in proper centuries | 0 | |
| 116705955 | Chinese fundamentals of scholar gentry class; strict patriarchy, closest thing to a state religion in China; secular; influenced all of Asia, but not accepted; emphasized obedience and social order | Confucianism | 1 | |
| 116705956 | extremely strict, Brahman was the highest(priest), untouchables where the lowest (not even really considered a class)reincarnated higher if you had good karma, artist were respected, Hinduism is the only uniting factor between classes | Indian Caste system | 2 | |
| 116705957 | Silk Road (goods/silk/Buddhism); westernization(Russia); Alexander the Great and Hellenism; Mongols meshed almost all cultures by conquering; | Examples of Cultural Diffusion | 3 | |
| 116705958 | Buddhism vs. Islam/Coptic Christians; absolutism; (Chinese emperor had mandate of heaven; pharaoh was a god); revatively isolated; many advances for their time | Comparisons of classical China and Egypt | 4 | |
| 116705959 | to make Greek; emphasized education and arts (literature, theatre, the human body); scientific center in Alexandria, Egypt; Alexander the Great, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, expanded military/navy, columns, Olympics | Hellenistic Age | 5 | |
| 116705960 | prisoners of war; servants; Romans would not own slaves they captured people to own the slaves | Slavery in the classical world | 6 | |
| 116705961 | submitted to husbands; no rights or power, Spartan women could own property and make business deals and they were athletic; supposed to raise women and maintain the house; next Indian women (veils/harems), worst off were Chinese (footbinding, harems) | Role of women in the classical world | 7 | |
| 116705962 | came from India to china; adapted more to Confucianism (becomes patriarchal); spread among the lower classes (mahyanna Buddhism); never dominates a culture; Buddhism eventually fails; emporess wu; | Buddhism's changes in coming to China | 8 | |
| 116705963 | pilmagrage to mecca (hajj), Ramadan, jihad, daily prayer, no god but allah, muhamaad is his messanger/exalted prophet, zekat (tax for poor people); minarets on mosques; | Basic Islamic beliefs | 9 | |
| 116705964 | blending of cultures i.e: china and Rome; Nestorian Christians and Buddist; Indians adopted western dress; | Syncretism | 10 | |
| 116705965 | Rome never recovers, but China does; both victim to foreign invaders (huns for both); religion attacking government (Christianity→ gov; Buddhism→ confusianism) | Comparisons of falls of Han(1st) and Roman Empires(last) | 11 | |
| 116705966 | demonstrated subjugation of women; showed status (poor women did not wear them) | The role of veil and harem in Islamic world | 12 | |
| 116705967 | more like a labor system; woman wore harems; children were servants; men usually not enslaved; muslims did not haave muslim slaves | Muslim slavery | 13 | |
| 116705968 | Spanish conquered their learning centers/libraries; didn't think it was nesecary b/c allah gave them all the answers | Why Islam "lost" lead in Science | 14 | |
| 116705969 | Similarities between Byzantine Empire and China | Similarities: Both patricarchal, China more so; Both beauracratic, both educated; Both relied on trade routes; Strong militaries because of technology; Had emperors who claimed authority given by religion.; Cultures including religion was from other cultures.; Byzantium from Greek and Rome; China- from previous dynasty; Both innovative. Differences: china was stricter socially; China less spiritual; Byzantine had more powerful enemies. | 15 | |
| 116705970 | when the Mongols destroyed bahgdad; Rashid Rashid- spent a lot of money on themselves/mosques/harems | What caused the end of Abbasid Dynasty | 16 | |
| 116705971 | degraded their views on christianisty; increased trade between Christianity and islam; brought new technologies to the west | Impact of Crusades on Islamic World | 17 | |
| 116705972 | no recordings of Japanese tea ceremony, great wall of china, r footbinding | Doubts about Marco Polo | 18 | |
| 116705973 | about 60-80 million? incas: 10 million; Aztecs:20 million; more than any city of its time or same amount as Europe at that time | Populations of Native Americans | 19 | |
| 116705974 | originated in china (wu ti); spread to rome; whenever in use china prospered; an exam taken to gain office positions in Chinese culture; only the smartest passed (jenshi) | Civil service exam | 20 | |
| 116705975 | devastated Europe, killing 1/3 of europe and china population; carried through mice by tick like bugs; spread by mongols | Black Death | 21 | |
| 116705976 | begings of the the backlash on Buddhism: daoist and confusian scholars convinced tang rulers that Buddhist monastitic orders were loosing china money b/c they could not tax the workers there or the land they were established on, the tang then limits the buddist land, ect..; this restrictions become open persecution; 100s of monastaries and shrines destroyed→ monks and nuns returned to civilian lives (and their ground keepers) became subject to taxation; it survived but it was weakened; led to the main confusian idealogy of china; | Results of the Tang repression of Buddhism | 22 | |
| 116705977 | spread of black death; cut Russia off from renaissance/western Europe; promoted internal trade; Mongols- constant threat; kept orthodox church away from protestant reformation | Impact of Mongols on Europe and Russia | 23 | |
| 116705978 | muslim from western china; eunuch n the royal court; led trading expiditions sponsored by the state to India, the middle east, eastern coast of Africa; and took the 9 most sophisticated ships in the world to exsplore the Persian gulf, Indian ocean, and red sea; stuck to the coast; hated by confusians who thought his exotic expeditians where useless and they wanted to focus internally and they stopped his trips; showed Chinese predjudice | Zheng He's voyages | 24 | |
| 116705979 | attempt to make the Japanese monarchy into an absoluteist Chinese style emperor; by enforcing the civil service exam, drafting; it does not work b/c noble families resist and give the empeopr more power; the noble familes fight for power setting japan into a futile period | Taiku Reforms | 25 | |
| 116705980 | japan- samurai, Europe- scientists/bankers, china- bureaucrats, Aztec warriors | Gatekeepers of civilization | 26 | |
| 116705981 | spread of black death; huns helped destroy the roman empire | Impact of Mongols/nomads on Europe | 27 | |
| 116705982 | not strict; very tolerant of other religeons; Kublai Khan let all religeons co exist in china | Mongol religious policy | 28 | |
| 116705983 | the spread of the scientific revolution (proving all things scientifically); emphasized the goodness in humanity they set out to fix the world; believed rational laws could describe social behavior; centered in france | The Enlightenment | 29 | |
| 116705984 | between Europe and the Americas: small pox, cattle, horses- Americas; potatoes/corn- europe | Colombian Exchange | 30 | |
| 116705985 | german catholic munk; stated protestant reformation; against indulgences; wrote 95 theses; believed only faith could gain salvation, and monastisism of priests was wrong; view on trinity was the same | Luther's beliefs | 31 | |
| 116705986 | the concept of God during the scientific revolution; believed God created the world (set up the laws of nature) then left it alone | Deism | 32 |