AP WORLD HISTORY Flashcards

4440497866	early agricultural and technological development	8000 BCE to 3500 BCE	0
4440498326	development of the earliest civilizations	3500 to 1500 BCE	1
4440498898	classical civilizations	1000 BCE to 600 CE	2
4440500789	first Chinese dynasty and river	Shang yellow river	3
4440503022	second Chinese dynasty (followed the Shang)	Zhou	4
4440503603	what followed the Zhou dynasty	period of warring states	5
4440503604	What the zhou ruled by	the mandate of heaven	6
4440508075	seafaring people from the easter mediterranean who set up colonies in North Africa and southern Europe	Phoenicians	7
4440509747	Jewish migration	Abraham and his family settled in Canaan, then migrated to Egypt to escape drought. Under Moses they returned to Canaan and established the kingdom of Israel	8
4440512767	herding people that invaded the Indian subcontinent and imposed the caste system on the natives; their stories became the basis for Hindusim	Aryans	9
4440515521	Three major migrations from 3500 to 1100 BCE	Phoenicians, Israelites, Aryans	10
4440516521	how the classical civilizations were different from the river valley civilizations (3)	1. kept better and more recent records 2. provide direct links to today's world 3. were expansionist	11
4440519859	The classical civilizations (6 total, 3 regions)	Greece, Rome, Zhou, Han, Mauryan, Gupta	12
4440523658	founder of the Mauryan empire	Chandragupta Maurya	13
4440524170	capital of the Mauryan empire	Paliputra	14
4440525362	grandson of Chandragupta who converted to Buddhism and helped to spread of Buddhism through his pillars	Asoka	15
4440528481	The gupta empire was bigger or smaller than the mauryan empire	smaller	16
4440528482	founder of the Gupta Empire	Chandra Gupta	17
4440530065	before the Qin dynasty was the	Zhou Dynasty	18
4440543714	founder of the Qin dynasty	Shi Huangdi	19
4440544556	Shi Huangdi's preferred philosophy	legalism	20
4440545220	What destroyed the Qin dynasty	rebellions because of high taxes	21
4440546256	Han's capital	Chang'an	22
4440546941	warrior emperor of the Han dynasty	Wu Di	23
4440548386	when rome was founded	800 BCE	24
4440548387	when rome became a republic	509 BCE	25
4440549258	lower class in Roman society	plebians	26
4440549259	upper class in Roman society	patricians	27
4440552685	Eventually, plebeians were granted the right to elect ________ who were able to veto laws	tribunes	28
4440553493	Punic Wars	Carthage (north Africa, Phonecians) vs Rome, Rome won	29
4440555024	Why the Roman republic collapsed	falling grain prices made farmers bankrupt; civil wars and revolts	30
4440557701	Who made himself dictator of the Roman empire	Julius caesar	31
4440559566	Pax Romana	27 BCE to early 200s CE	32
4440560740	Pax Romana started under this Roman emperor	Augustus Caesar	33
4440561368	When Rome split	300s ce	34
4440561369	Eastern half of the Roman Empire and capital	Byzantine; constantinople	35
4440563704	Fall of western Rome when it was taken over by Germanic Goths	476 CE	36
4440564938	trade routes that linked the classical civilizations (4)	silk road, indian ocean trade, saharan trade, sub-saharan trade	37
4440607289	2 major empires in west Africa between 600 and 1450 CE	Ghana and Mali	38
4440607290	founder of Mali	Sundiata	39
4440608474	capital of Mali	Timbuktu (home to mosques and madrases, world center of trade, education, and sophistication)	40
4440610364	group that conquered Ghana in 1000 CE	Almoravids	41
4440611471	Empires in east Africa	Swahili city-states	42
4440612211	languages spoken in the Swahili city-states	Bantu and Arabic	43