Semester 1 Final: AP World History Flashcards

290985539	Facts on Otto of Saxony	-established himself as king in Northern Germany -Pope John XII announced him emperor of Holy Roman Empire	0
290985540	What was the Investiture Contest?	a controversy between church and government	1
290985541	The Baltic Sea and North Sea were sites of a well-developed trade network known as the...	Hanseatic League	2
290985542	most famous of the scholastic theologians	St. Thomas Aquinas	3
290985543	most popular saint	Mary	4
290985544	Who was Clovis?	he led Frankish forces on a campaign that got completely rid of Roman authority in Gaul (France)	5
290985545	made Frankish realm reach it's high point, grandson of Charles Martel	Charlemagne	6
290985546	Charlemagne's only surviving son who succeeded to upkeep Carolingian empire but lost control of counts and other local authorities	Louis the Pious	7
290985547	sailed shallow-draft boats that could cross heavy seas and tried attacking many cities	The Vikings	8
290985548	describe relationship between lords and retainers	lords provided grants that enabled their retainers to support themselves and their families; in return retainers provided services for lords	9
290985549	who were serfs?	semi-free individuals	10
290985550	what were manors?	dominated rural regions in much of France	11
290985551	heavy iron tool that broke up root networks of weeds	heavy plows	12
290985552	temporarily restored unified rule in most of northern India; had rep for piety, liberality, and scholarship	Harsha	13
290985553	Vishnu	god, preserver of the world	14
290985554	Shiva	god of fertility and a destructive deity	15
290985555	this cult of love and devotion ultimately sought to erase distinction between Hinduism and Islam	The Bhakti Movement	16
290985556	taught that Vishnu, Shiva, and Allah were all manifestations of a universal deity	Guru Kabir	17
290985557	facilitated trade between North and South China	Grand Canal	18
290985558	capital of Tang empire	Chang'an	19
290985559	order of chinese dynasties	sui, tang, song	20
290985560	illustrated deep influence of Buddhism in Chinese society	Neo-Confucian Influence	21
290985561	dar al-Islam	all lands under Muslim control	22
290985562	who ruled the high point of Abbasid dynasty?	Caliph Harun al-Rashid	23
290985563	Facts about Sharia	codification of Islamic law, based on Qu'ran, secular	24
290985564	capital of Abbasid dynasty	Baghdad	25
290985565	define: hadith	traditions and sayings of the prophet Muhammed	26
290985566	5 Pillars of Islam	-no god but Allah and Muhammed is his prophet -daily prayer (5x) -fasting during Ramadan -charity -pilgrimage to Mecca	27
290985567	jihad	"holy war"	28
290985568	yurts/gers	allow nomadic groups to move easily as seasons change (tent-like structures)	29
290985569	which religion isn't popular among Mongols?	Hinduism	30
290985570	what's the importance of the Battle of Manzikert?	loss of Anatolia for the Byzantines	31
290985571	Genghis Khan was a ___ not a ___	conqueror / administrator	32
290985572	pax mongolia is..	mongol peace	33
290985573	how does genghis die?	in horse riding accident on way out to war	34
290985574	founder of Mali	Sundiata (lion king)	35
290985575	grandson of Sundiata	Mansa Musa	36
290985576	gurriots	African story-tellers	37
290985577	who overtook the byzantines?	turkish people	38
290985578	who was Ibn Battuta?	Muslim scholar, traveler	39
290985579	define paganism	worshipping nature	40
290985580	what does pax mongolia cause?	expansion of trade	41
290985581	"those who pray"	clergy	42
290985582	"those who fight"	knights	43
290985583	"those who work"	peasant	44
290985584	what term is not popular with historians?	feudalism	45
290985585	first to convert to roman catholic?	franks	46
290985586	define monastic	type of life; frequently ascetic and they live in a monastery	47
290985587	Cambay	port city where goods were traded	48
290985588	Mahmud of Ghazni	spread Islam in India, destroys Hindu and Buddhist temples	49
290985589	consolidation of Mahmud's raiding territory	Sultanate of Delhi	50
290985590	capital of Aztec empire	Tenochtitlan	51
290985591	what is a chinampa?	Aztec practice of dredging fertile muck from lake's bottom	52
290985592	Inca quipu was a	mnemonic aid consisting of small cords with knots	53
290985593	most Aztec human sacrifices were in honor of	Huitzilopochtli	54
290985594	place where Buddhism becomes popular	Dunhuang	55
290985595	combination of political and religious authority	Caesaropapism	56
290985596	the "sleepless emperor"	Justinian	57
290985597	Byzantine= Roman=	Greek Latin	58
290985598	in Byzantine empire, what developed?	banking services	59
290985599	caused collapse of western roman empire	Huns	60
290985600	Manichaeism is a blend of what religions?	Zoroastrian, Christian, and Buddhist	61
290985601	define latifundia	large plantain in Rome	62
290985602	augustus disguised his administration as what?	disguised his monarchy as a republic	63
290985603	roman law	innocent until proven guilty	64
290985604	mare nostrum	our sea	65
290985605	right to arrange marriages, sell children into slavery, women not allowed to inherit property (rarely enforced)	pater familias	66
290985606	Paul of Tarsus	extended teachings far beyond Jewish circles and did intensive travel, missionary activity	67
290985607	define polis	greek city-state	68
290985608	hellenistic era	influence of greeks	69
290985609	grandson of Chandragupta who expanded empire to include all of Indian subcontinent except for South	Ashoka Maurya	70
290985610	major book of Confucianism	Analects	71
290985611	dao	"the way"	72
290985612	the end justifies the means	legalism	73
290985613	founds new dynasty that he makes a centralized bureaucracy, massive public works	Qin Shihuangdi	74
290985614	filial piety	respecting parents, subordination to older males	75
290985615	hominids adapt environment to themselves by..	use of tools, language, complex cooperative social structures	76
290985616	venus figurines are symbols of...	fertility	77
290985617	Jericho	concentration of wealth, building a wall	78
290985618	code of hammurabi	-first law code -eye for an eye -social class important -gender inequality	79
290985619	mesopotamia means	between the rivers	80
290985620	ziggurat is	home of the gods	81
290985621	patriarchy means	rule of the father	82
290985622	sumerian writing systems formed this type of writing	cuneiform "wedge-shaped"	83
290985623	the torah means	"the teaching"	84
290985624	four major persian dynasties	achaemenids, seleucids, parthians, sasanids	85
290985625	what's a qanat?	system of underground canals	86
290985626	alex the great conquers what empire?	achaemenid	87
290985627	king who failed to follow the normal persian policy of toleration	xerxes	88
290985628	"good words, good thoughts, good deeds" sum up the morality of the	zoroastrians	89
290985629	zarathustra viewed the material world as	a gift from Ahura Mazda that should be enjoyed	90
290985630	the battle of marathon proved to be a	persian loss	91
290985631	hieroglyphs are	sacred writings	92
290985632	bantu people migrate throughout	sub-Saharan regions, and eventually occupied most of Africa south of the equator	93
290985633	monotheism	belief in one god	94