AP World History Exam Flashcards

5945953934	Gupta Empire	ancient Indian empire, from approx. 320 to 550 CE - Golden Age of India	0
5945953935	Mauryan Empire	large ancient Indian empire, from 322-185 BCE	1
5945953936	Zoroastrianism	monotheistic Religion in Ancient Persia	2
5945953937	polis	Greek city state	3
5945953938	Charlemagne	Christian emperor, crowned in 800 CE, unified central Europe after migration period	4
5945953939	three-field system	crop rotation system in feudal Europe	5
5945953940	Bantu Migration	series of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo area to present day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (Bantu languages)	6
5945953941	Tang Dynasty	imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 - major influence on Korea and Japan, gun-powder was invented	7
5945953944	janissaries	elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and bodyguards	8
5945953945	Suleiman the Magnificent	longest-reigning Great Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566 - was called the "Law Giver" due to many reforms, formed an alliance with France	9
5945953946	Safavids	one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia, often considered the beginning of modern Persian history (gunpowder empire)	10
5945953948	Hanseatic League	commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns - dominated Baltic maritime trade (c. 1400-1800	11
5945953949	mit'a	mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire - it was modified and intensified by the Spanish colonial government, creating the encomienda system	12
5945953950	ayllu	traditional form of a community in the Andes, especially among Quechuas and Aymaras	13
5945953951	chinampas	type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico	14
5945953952	caravel	small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries	15
5945953953	Atahualpa	last Inca king emperor, overthrown by Spanish conquistador Pizzaro	16
5945953954	Moctezuma	last Aztec emperor, overthown by Spanish conquistador Cortès	17
5945953955	Jesuits	members of a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 to do missionary work	18
5945953956	King Louis XIV	"le Roi-Soleil", his reign was characterized by a magnificent court, the expansion of French influence, and the establishment of overseas colonies	19
5945953957	Nicholas Copernicus	Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe	20
5945953958	Bartolome de las Casas	16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar - the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians"	21
5945953959	Potosi	one of the highest cities in the world (13,420 ft) - for centuries, it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint	22
5945953960	encomienda	the system, instituted in 1503, under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted a tract of land or a village together with its Indian inhabitants	23
5945953961	mita	forced-labor draft imposed by the Spaniards on the indigenous inhabitants of Peru	24
5945953963	Toussaint L'Ouverture	Leader in the Haitian revolution	25
5945953964	Agricultural Revolution (modern era)	an increase in agricultural productivity in Great Britain which helped drive the Industrial Revolution	26
5945953965	Adam Smith	economist and author of "The Wealth of Nations", which many consider the single most important economic work in history	27
5945953968	Otto von Bismark	19th century Germany chancellor	28