AP World 51-100 Flashcards

324002411	Peloponnesian War	War between Sparta and Athens	0
324002412	Alexander the Great	United Ancient Greece	1
324002413	Hellenism	Shift in greek culture dominated by greek speakers of different ethnicities; greatly influenced by persians	2
324002414	Homer	Greek poet	3
324002415	Socrates and Plato	Greek philosopher/student	4
324002416	Aristotle	One of the most influential philosopher.	5
324002417	Western scientific thought	Basis for modern science	6
324002418	Roman republic	Republican government of rome before the roman empire	7
324002419	Plebians vs patricians	Peasants vs elite	8
324002420	Punic Wars	Series of wars between Rome and Carthage	9
324002421	Julius Ceasar	Roman military and political leader	10
324002422	Roman Empire	Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization	11
324002423	Qin, Han, Tang Dynasties	First 3 dynasties in China	12
324002424	Shi Huangdi	King of Qin	13
324002425	Chinese Tributary system	Form of conducting diplomatic and political relations with China	14
324002426	the Silk Roads	Interconnected series of routes through southern Asia	15
324002427	Nara and Herian Japan	Herian: characterized by it's art, poetry and literature Nara: agricultural by nature, practiced shinto	16
324002428	Fujiwara clan	dominated the Japanese politics of Heian period	17
324002429	Lady Murasaki and "The Take of Genji"	First novel of Japanese/world literature	18
324002430	Central Asia and Mongolia	Acted as a crossroads for the movement of people, goods, and ideas	19
324002431	The Aryan Invasion of India	Aryans invaded the Indus River Civilization	20
324002432	Dravidians	People of southern and central India who speak Dravidian languages	21
324002433	Indian Caste System	Division of society into four castes	22
324002434	Ashoka	Mauryan empire; covert of buddihism	23
324002435	Constantinople/Byzantine Empire	Made into second capital by Constantine	24
324002436	Justinian	Roman emperor who tried to restore the unity of the old roman empire	25
324002437	Early Medieval Europe "Dark Ages"	Period of history between the last emperor of Rome and the Renaissance	26
324002438	Feudalism	Grants of land for loyal service	27
324002439	Charlemagne	Helped restore church based education in western Europe	28
324002440	Mohammed and the foundation of Islam	Founded Islam. Believed in the five pillars	29
324002441	Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates	Umayyad: Clans that dominated politics and economy of Mecca Abbasid: Dynsasty that succeeded Ummiyad, as caliphs which are political and religious succesors of Muhammad	30
324002442	Bantu and their migrations	Bantu-speaking people moved to the African coast	31
324002443	Nubia	The coptic influence spread up the Nile into Nubia	32
324002444	Ghana	Formed by exchanging gold with West Africa. Leaders converted to islam and taxed salt and gold.	33
324002445	Olmec	Featured beginnings of calendrical and writing system	34
324002446	Maya	Featured monumental architecture, mathematical systems	35
324002447	Andean Societies	Started in the 2nd millenium in the central andes	36
324002448	Mississippian Culture	A mound-building Native American Culture that flourished in the US	37
324002449	Anasazi	Native American group that lived in the Four Corners area of the U.S.	38
324002450	Cultural Diffusion versus independent innovation	Spread through cultures vs independent inventing	39
324002451	Aristocracy	System of government with "Rule by the best"	40
324002452	Parliamentary bodies	Senate and peasant voting body	41
324002453	Oligarchy	Political power rests with a small segment of society	42
324002454	Republics/democracies	Republic - state or country led by people Democracy - majority rules	43
324002455	theocracy	government where religion plays a dominant role	44
324002456	Slavery vs serfdom	Slavery - considered property and sold around Serfdom - forced labor by serfs which were semi free slaves tied to the land	45
324002457	War	State of widespread conflict between two large groups of people	46
324002458	Trade routes	Pathways used for commercial transport of cargo	47
324002459	Polynesian Migrations	Polynesians migrated throughout the pacific in sailing canoes	48
324002460	Eurasia's great age of migrations	Increase in migrations from Eurasia	49