AP World History Flashcards

711020774	Colombian Exchange	Biological and ecological exchange that occurred after European arrival in the New World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to the Americas; animals, plants, and diseases moved between the Old and New Worlds.	0
620621908	Mercantilism	An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought	1
1026241699	manioc	another staple of sedentary agriculturists in the Americas; principal crop in the lowlands of South America and the Caribbean islands.	2
480403590	Vodun	African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti.	3
745501250	Sikkhism	india, syncretic religion (hinduism and islam)	4
54044619	reconnaissance	A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination	5
872252081	Sundiata	the founder of Mali empire. He crushed his enemies and won control of the gold trade routes	6
506216427	Renaissance art	Art in which humans are the focus (humanism).	7
533216820	Shakespeare	A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.	8
110777822	Cervantes	Author of Don Quixote	9
578077835	Journey to the West	It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty, its authorship has been ascribed to the scholar Wu Cheng'en since the 20th century. The novel is a fictionalised account of the mythologized legends around the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng's pilgrimage to India during the Táng dynasty in order to obtain Buddhist religious texts	10
420907943	Kabuki	A popular type of Japanese drama combined with music and dance, it is the type of theatre in Japan(Played buy all male actors)	11
822417861	Ivan III the Great	The prince that made Moscow the new capital of Russia, and he overthrew the Mongols that were dominating Russia.	12
2165414532	Ivan IV the Terrible	Confirmed power of tsarist autocracy by attacking the authority of the boyars; continued policy of expansion; established contacts with western European commerce and culture.	13
2165415962	cossacks	peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in Russia, particularly in south; combined agriculture with military conquests; spurred additional frontier conquests and settlements.	14
2165415963	Time of Troubles	1604-1613, During which the Russian nobles elected series of tsars a tried to demand their liberties. Contending factions and civil war. Finally in 1613 national assembly elected a 17 year old boy as tsar - start of Romanov dynasty.	15
2165421906	Romanov Dynasty	Dynasty that favored the nobles, reduced military obligations, expanded the Russian empire further east, and fought several unsuccessful wars, yet they lasted from 1613 to 1917.	16
2165423001	Alexis Romanov	Second Romanov tsar; abolished assemblies of nobles; gained new powers over Russian Orthodox church.	17
2165424502	Old Believers	Russians who refused to accept the ecclesiastical reforms of Alexis Romanov (17th century); many exiled to Siberia or southern Russia, where they became part of Russian colonization.	18
2165425812	Peter I the Great	1725; begins selective westernization and expansion of Russia, seeks warm water port, built St. Petersburg ("window to the west")	19
2165431846	Catherine II the Great	Russian Czar from 1762-1796. Was an Enlightened Absolutist, but came to power when spouse was murdered. This Czar supressed the serfs and gave power to the aristocracy. Her boyfriends would become prime ministers. Expanded mostly West and South, and Westernized in literature, philosophy, and art.	20
2165434480	Pugachev Rebellion	During 1770's in reign of Catherine the Great; led by cossack Emelian Pugachev, who claimed to be legitimate tsar; eventually crushed; typical of peasant unrest during the 18th century and thereafter	21
2165436815	Partition of Poland		22