AP World History Flashcards

5521135173	5 Pillars of Islam	One God, Prayer 5 times a day, Charity, Ramadan, The Haij	0
5521137260	Sultanate	A Muslim government	1
5521137261	Caliph	A spiritual and political leader of Islam claiming succession from Muhammad	2
5521137262	Vikings	Scandinavian people who raided Europe between the 8th and the 10th centuries	3
5521138686	Mamluks	Slave soldiers who converted to Islam, they rose to power in Egyp. Stopped the Mongols 13th century	4
5521138687	Sufis	Muslim mystics who helped to spread Islam to India and S.E. Asia	5
5521139862	Mansa Musa	King of Mali, whose famous haij caused inflation because of the gold he distributed along his way to Mecca	6
5521143220	Ghana	West African kingdom which traded gold for salt, 6th-13th centuries	7
5521143221	Mali	West African kingdom established by Sundiata and later led by Mansa Musa in the 14th century	8
5521143222	Griots	African storyteller, advisor, and historian	9
5521145313	Byzantine Empire	The remainder of the Roman Empire in the East, it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453	10
5521146435	The Great Schism	A division between the Western Christian Church and the Eastern (orthodox) Church in 1054	11
5521146436	Ibn Battuta	Muslim traveler, 14th c., who wrote about the world of Islam. Morocco to So. East Asia	12
5521150365	Feudalism	A political system based on rigid social classes, loyalty and the granting of land to nobles or warriors	13
5521151803	Guilds	Economic associations between people in the same business or craft	14
5521151804	Chinampas	Artificial islands on which Mesoamericans grew crops	15
5521152835	Aztec	Mesoamerican kingdom which built its capital, Tenochtitlan, on a lake. Conquered by Cortez in 1519	16
5521152836	Inca	South American kingdom known for building a vast system of roads, conquered by Pizarro in 1532	17
5521153817	Quipu	A system of knotted yarn used by the Inca to communicate across their empire	18
5521155587	Neo Confucianism	A revival of traditions and beliefs during the Tang and Song, which affected women negatively	19
5521155588	Gunpowder	Invented in China during the Song Dynasty	20
5521156850	Samurai	The equivalent of the knight in Europe	21
5521156851	Tribute	A payment to a government, could be labor or goods	22
5521157980	Golden Horde	Mongol Empire which occupied Russia from the 13th century to the 15th century	23
5521157981	Humanism	Wetsern European movement which stressed the power and beauty of the mind, 14th c	24
5521161112	Zheng He	Chinese admiral who traveled to Africa in the 15th century, he used 100 yard long treasure junks	25
5521161113	Marco Polo	13th century traveler who stayed at the courts of Kubilai Khan for 17 years	26
5521161963	Islam	Monotheistic religion with 5 pillars founded in 622	27
5521163676	Indian Ocean Trading Network	Trade network which included East Africa, the Middle East, India, So. East Asia, and China	28
5521165517	Trans-Saharan Trading Network	Trade route centered on salt and gold	29
5521165518	Swahili	African language derived from Bantu, Arabic, and Persian	30
5521167544	Syncretism	The combing of two different things to make something new	31
5521167545	Silk Road	Ancient trade route running from China, to Central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean	32
5521168572	Crusades	An attempt to take the "holy land" from the Muslims. Resulted in the spread of ideas to Europe	33
5521168573	Mongols	Nomadic group unified in the 13th century. Created the largest land empire up to that time	34
5521169875	Black Death	14th century pandemic which came from China and killed at least 1/4 of the Europeans	35
5521169885	Renaissance	The reawakening of Western Europe, the revival of Roman art and ideas.	36
5521172130	Genghis Khan	The unifier of the Mongols	37
5521172131	Joan of Arc	French leader who helped to expel the English but was burned at the stake in 1431	38
5521175294	Constantinople	Capital of the Byzantine Empire, conquered by the Ottomans in 1453	39