AP World History Exam Flashcards
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4427986130 | Diaspora | a scattered population - if capitalized, it refers to the expulsion of Jews from Judea | 0 | |
4427986134 | Gupta Empire | ancient Indian empire, from approx. 320 to 550 CE - Golden Age of India | 1 | |
4427986135 | Mauryan Empire | large ancient Indian empire, from 322-185 BCE | 2 | |
4427986138 | Zoroastrianism | monotheistic Religion in Ancient Persia | 3 | |
4427986140 | polis | Greek city state | 4 | |
4427986145 | Charlemagne | Christian emperor, crowned in 800 CE, unified central Europe after migration period | 5 | |
4427986146 | three-field system | crop rotation system in feudal Europe | 6 | |
4427986151 | Bantu Migration | series of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo area to present day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (Bantu languages) | 7 | |
4427986152 | Tang Dynasty | imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 - major influence on Korea and Japan, gun-powder was invented | 8 | |
4427986160 | Kamikaze | (in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target | 9 | |
4427986162 | Tokugawa Shogunate | also known as Edo, last feudal Japanese military government which existed between 1603 and 1867 | 10 | |
4427986165 | janissaries | elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and bodyguards | 11 | |
4427986166 | 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 | 12 | |
4427986168 | Safavids | one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia, often considered the beginning of modern Persian history (gunpowder empire) | 13 | |
4427986169 | Cossacks | group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Russia and in Ukraine | 14 | |
4427986170 | Hanseatic League | commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns - dominated Baltic maritime trade (c. 1400-1800 | 15 | |
4427986175 | 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 | 16 | |
4427986176 | ayllu | traditional form of a community in the Andes, especially among Quechuas and Aymaras | 17 | |
4427986178 | 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 | 18 | |
4427986179 | caravel | small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries | 19 | |
4427986180 | Atahualpa | last Inca king emperor, overthrown by Spanish conquistador Pizzaro | 20 | |
4427986181 | Moctezuma | last Aztec emperor, overthown by Spanish conquistador Cortès | 21 | |
4427986182 | Jesuits | members of a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 to do missionary work | 22 | |
4427986184 | 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 | 23 | |
4427986185 | 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 | 24 | |
4427986187 | Bartolome de las Casas | 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar - the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians" | 25 | |
4427986188 | Potosi | one of the highest cities in the world (13,420 ft) - for centuries, it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint | 26 | |
4427986189 | 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 | 27 | |
4427986190 | mita | forced-labor draft imposed by the Spaniards on the indigenous inhabitants of Peru | 28 | |
4427986192 | indentured servant | a person who is bound to work for another for a specified period of time, esp. such a person who came to America during the colonial period. | 29 | |
4427986197 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Leader in the Haitian revolution | 30 | |
4427986198 | Agricultural Revolution (modern era) | an increase in agricultural productivity in Great Britain which helped drive the Industrial Revolution | 31 | |
4427986199 | Adam Smith | economist and author of "The Wealth of Nations", which many consider the single most important economic work in history | 32 | |
4427986200 | Thomas Malthus | 18th-century British philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about population growth | 33 | |
4427986203 | Tanzimat | series of reforms in the Ottoman Empire that brought the culture, education, religion and society more in line with Europe and the United States and western ways | 34 | |
4427986206 | Otto von Bismark | 19th century Germany chancellor | 35 | |
4427986208 | Afrikaners | South Africans of Dutch decent | 36 | |
4427986209 | Boer War (South African War) | Wars between the Boers an the English in South Africa | 37 | |
4427986213 | Balfour Declaration | Confirming support from the British government for the establishment in Palestine of a "national home" for the Jewish people | 38 | |
4427986214 | Guomindang / Kuomintang | Chinese National Party | 39 | |
4427986215 | Kemal Ataturk | Turkish revolutionary and the first President of Turkey, credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey (1919) | 40 | |
4427986216 | Munich Conference | settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia | 41 | |
4427986218 | African National Congress | ruling party of post-apartheid South Africa on the national level since 1994, including the election of Nelson Mandela as president from 1994-1999 | 42 | |
4427986219 | Indian National Congress | one of two major political parties in India (the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party) - founded in 1885 during the British Raj | 43 | |
4427986220 | Jawaharlal Nehru | first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence | 44 |