AP World History Review Flashcards

2570617034	Mesopotamia	3500-2350BCE city-states, stratified, women lost standing, agriculture, participated in trade, cuneiform, ziggurats	0
2570619819	Nubia	3000-1500BCE traded gold, copper, and semiprecious stones with Egypt	1
2570717687	Egypt	3100-525BCE farmers, involved in trade, Pharaoh	2
2570622030	Old Kingdom Egypt	2575-2134BCE Pharaohs and economy strongest, built pyramids	3
2570623007	Middle Kingdom Egypt	2040-1640BCE extensive trade, middle class developed, conquered by Hyksos	4
2570624719	New Kingdom Egypt	1532-1070BCE expanded territory	5
2570634505	Indus River Valley	2600-1900BCE Mohenjo Daro and Harrapa, agricultural, participated in trade, organized government, clear social classes, writing on clay seals	6
2570635876	Shang Dynasty	1750-1122BCE metallurgy, silk trade, warrior king	7
2570637726	Minoans	2000-1450BCE Island of Crete	8
2570639391	Mycenaens	1600-1200BCE Greek mainland, warlike and aggressive, trade on Aegean sea	9
2570642007	Olmecs	ca. 1250-400 BCE agricultural, cities center of religion and trade, authoritarian and hierarchical	10
2570645015	Greece	1100-300 BCE foundation of west, greco-persian wars, peloponnesian wars, polis, agricultural, participated in trade, citizens v. noncitizens, spartan women had more rights	11
2570646833	Chavin	1000-200 BCE geographically challenged, agricultural, trade routes	12
2570648841	Zhou Dynasty	1100-221BCE written records, extended territories, decentralized, professional bureaucrats, socially stratified, women lost status, shamans and oracle bones, early pictographs, Confucianism	13
2570650936	Phoenicia	800-200 BCE maritime trade, alphabet, city-states	14
2570651575	Roman Republic	800-31 BCE senate, patricians and plebians, consuls, tribunes	15
2570652587	Archaemenid Persia	550-331 BCE Cyrus the Great, Zoroastrianism, Postal/Road system	16
2570654074	Mauryan Empire	300-100 BCE Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka-united India, Buddhism	17
2570656292	Parthian Persia	247 BCE-224CE Center of trade, located on Silk Road, warred with Rome	18
2570657843	Qin Dynasty	221-206BCE unified China, legalist, Great Wall, centralized government, Shi Huangdi, standardized laws and currencies	19
2570658676	Han Dynasty	206BCE-220CE golden age, started silk road, coins and paper, educated bureaucracy	20
2570668265	Roman Empire	30BCE-476CE codified law, agricultural, patron-client relationships, women had more freedom than Greek women	21
2570669363	Sassanid Persia	224BCE-651CE peak of Persian culture, influenced Islam	22
2570670584	Maya	250-900CE agricultural, trade not important, cities were religious and administrative centers, clear social classes, human sacrifice	23
2570670585	Moche	200-700CE agricultural, highly stratified	24
2570671964	Gupta Empire	300-500CE less area than Mauryan, modeled after Mauryan	25
2570941663	Byzantium	300-1453CE caesaropapism, Justinian codified law, bureaucracy, women's status worsened, eastern orthodox church, cyrillic writing	26
2570961505	Umayyad Caliphate	661-750CE continued to expand, bureaucracy, excluded non-Arab subjects, capital at Damascus	27
2570942595	Abbasid Caliphate	750-1258CE Baghdad, shari'a law, vizier, agricultural, urban expansion, participated in trade, madrasas, mathematical knowledge	28
2570943395	Ghana	800-1200CE gold trade, converted to Islam	29
2570944445	Great Zimbabwe	1000-1400CE	30
2570944446	Mali	1200-1600CE Sundiata, griots, controlled African trade, Muslim kings, Mansa Masu	31
2570945928	Sui	589-618CE built Grand Canal	32
2570945929	Tang	618-906CE capital at Chang'an, extended borders, tributary system, Confucian bureaucracy, elevated status of bureaucrats, Chinese and Turkish culture, Buddhism popular	33
2570948959	Song	960-1279CE weakened military, revolutionized agriculture, commerce, paper money, compass, and increased agriculture, champa rice, neo-Confucianism, foot binding	34
2571063888	Yuan Dynasty	1271-1368CE Mongols at top of hierarchy, favored merchants, remained separate from Chinese,	35
2570949651	Nara	700sCE	36
2570949652	Heian	794-1185CE Fujiwara family, Confucian and Chinese influence, Tale of Genji, warriors had government responsibility	37
2570950677	Delhi Sultanate	1206-1526CE ruled by Muslim sultans, Indians kept their religion	38
2570951784	Toltec	800-1000CE unified Mexico, agricultural, centralized, military power, two rulers	39
2570952723	Aztecs	1200-1520CE Tenochtitlan, chinampas, tribute system, military power, social hierarchy, semidivine king, powerful priests, human sacrifice	40
2570952724	Inca	1300-1500CE agricultural, mit'a system, ayllu, quipu knot tying, divine ruler, road system, large military, less human sacrifice	41
2570954241	Safavid	1501-1700sCE Shi'ite Muslim, hostile with Ottomans, peaked under Abbas I, Russain slave infantrymen, military and religious authority, promoted trade, Turkish and Persian culture, Sufi mysticism	42
2570954242	Songhai	1400s-1500sCE agricultural, gold, Muslim leaders	43
2571080350	Ming Dynasty	1368-1644CE reinstalled Confucianism, mandarins, eunuchs, began period of isolation, Zheng He's voyages	44
2570955124	Qing Dynasty	1644-1912CE Manchu, separate from Chinese, civil service exams, agriculture based, patriarchal, status of scholar-bureaucrats grew, neo-Confucianism	45
2570956031	Tokugawa Shogunate	1603-1868CE bafuku, alternate attendance, economic and population growth, Confucian hierarchy	46
2570957130	Mughal Empire	1500s-1800sCE Babur, Akbar-religious tolerance, autocratic rulers, Aurangzeb ended tolerance, controlled trade routes	47
2571060002	Mongols	1206-late 1300sCE expanded through Asia, fragmented, Pax Mongolica, assimilated to Islam, increased trade in Russia	48
2571291552	Ottoman Empire	1299-1922 founded by Osman, peaked in 1500s under Suleiman, sultans were political and military leaders, devshirme system, janissaries, large bureaucracy, vizier, wealthy from trade, mostly Sunni Muslim	49