AP World Study Guide Flashcards

This special set of flashcards is to help me study for my MAJOR exam coming up this Friday. Hopefully this helps.

270748142	connection	a link between people that spread ideas.	0
270748143	history	a study of humanities past;explaining how global processing was developed to survive..and how these things caused change.	1
270748144	diffusion	the spread of a practice,belief,culture,or technology within a community or communities.	2
270748145	nation	a group that has:cosmopolitan culture,borders,centralized government,and instruments of power.	3
270748146	janissaries	a coercive labor system in which christian boys were foot soldiers and converted into muslim.	4
270748147	gunpowder empires	Ottoman, Safavids, Mughal	5
270748148	ghinggis khan legacy	tolerance, written language, trade/crafts,legal code:Jasagn.	6
270748149	umayyads	sunni, capital of damascus, excluded non-muslims,expanded to spain,promoted trade, no religious conversion, accomplished an expansion in their economic system	7
270748150	tributary state	when smaller states depend upon a larger state that provides it with resources &markets.	8
270748151	westernization	the culture of the west/Byzantine empire.	9
270748152	theocracy	when the laws of religion are the laws of the government	10
270748153	Islam	submission to the will of Allah.	11
270748154	Five Pillars of Islam	1).Faith, 2).Prayer 3).donate(2.5%), 4).fast during the holy month of Ramadan, 5).pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime.	12
270748155	caliph	the political, religious leader of Islam.	13
270748156	Abu Bakr	the first caliph/-also: a leader, judge, and political leader.	14
270748157	feudalism	a political,economic, and social system based on loyalty & military service system of government where land is exchanged for food,service,/loyalty.	15
270748158	tang dynasty	expands to the west to control more of the slik road,used the gentry,a foreign dynasty that originated in the west,expanded tade in the Indian maritime system..etc.	16
270748159	song dynasty	surrounded by enemies,merchant class,development of more literacy/education,(neo-confucianism),magnetic compass,stern-rutter,junk boat,flying paper $.	17
270748160	Mesoamerica	stretches from southern mexico to northern Hondorus; located in a densely forested area/built platforms that were filled w/ trash.	18
270748161	conduit	connection that allows something to flow from one point to another.	19
270748162	Mongol Yoke	once a year tax of money/luxury goods that the Mongols would collect only in the month of October.	20
270748163	Democracy	male citizens who own property.	21
270748164	Acropolis/Agora	a fortified hilltop/ a meeting place.	22
270748165	Phoenicians	phonetic language:22 letters, had colonies, obtained in purple dye.	23
270748166	Assyrians	had a military, close relationships w/ the gods, government, didn't force people to adopt to the religion,conquered land-provinces.	24
270748167	Greeks	weren't unified due to their goegraphy,had polises:trade& had colonies for food.	25
270748168	Egypt	Had advances in chemistry,medicine, and astronomy.	26
270748169	Agricultural Revolution	1).Rise in temp.,2).wild seed plants,3).cultural diffusion,4).change in animal pattern.	27
270748170	Legalism	Had strict laws,harsh punishment; "strengthening the trunk, while weakening the branches."	28
270748171	complex institutions	provided patterns/organization to help a civilization survive.	29
270859142	Ice Age	known as the Paleolithic age.	30
270859143	Bronze Age	8,000 B.C.E-600 C.E., had bronze and iron/metal weapons& tools, had urbanized culture and urban lifestyle.	31
270859144	husbandry	controlling your food supply.	32
270859145	intensified agriculture	humanity had more food & food/knowledge.	33
270859146	Neolithic Age	used polished stone, wood, bone, and leather during this age; also humans begin to control the food supply.	34
270859147	Pedro Alvares Cabral	this person dicovered Brazil, and claimed it to be the Portuguese.	35
270859148	Yongle Encyclopedia	a collection of chinese doctrines.	36
270859149	Grass and water	the resource in which pastorialists needed to prosper:	37
270859150	East Africa	Humanity originated/began in:	38
270859151	Pubic work	examples that pertain to this term: monumental structures, defensive walls,systems of irrigation, etc..	39