AP World History Flashcards

3682644937	Which geographical feature did most early civilizations form around?	Rivers	0
3682648264	The birth and rise of agriculture refers to the	Neolithic Revolution	1
3682650697	Mandate of Heaven promotes all of the following EXCEPT	priest control of the state	2
3682660881	Which of the following is a Confucian belief?	A good society is guided by the 5 key relationships	3
3682667082	In which country did merchants hold the lowest status?	China	4
3682670395	The civil service exam was significant because	equal opportunity for all MEN to advance in government	5
3682675571	Major trade route connecting Asia to the Mediterranean	Silk Road	6
3682679712	Common feature of Classical civilization in India, China, and Mediterranean	Social Hierarchy	7
3682682689	Patriarchal Society	Male dominated	8
3682685649	The Roman genius was	architecture and engineering	9
3682690078	Direct democracy in Athens meant	all citizens participate directly in lawmaking	10
3682697170	What statement best describes the ROMAN and the HAN empires?	Costs associated with defending frontiers led to crisis	11
3682705396	Important reason for the fall of the Roman, Han, and Gupta Empires?	Intensified invasions and security issues along frontiers	12
3682709621	Pax Romana	Emperor went unopposed, Empire expanded, and economy grew	13
3682715444	Impact of Peloponnesian Wars on Greece	Weakened Greece and allowed Philip of Macedon to conquer	14
3682720048	This image is an example of	Alexander's diffusion of Greek culture to India	15
3682727535	The fact that Rome had plebeians and patricians shows that Rome had	a division among social classes	16
3682730186	Which example below best demonstrates CULTURAL DIFFUSION	preference of silk garments among the Roman elite	17
3682735478	After 200 C.E., people in Asia, Europe, and North Africa began to adapt faiths that were	Monotheistic (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity)	18
3682742074	Who did Christianity appeal to the most in its early stages?	The poor and women	19
3682748203	Which religious schism occurred after the death of its founding figure?	Sunni and Shia	20
3682753057	Two Muslim cities that retain the greatest symbolic or religious significance even to this day	Medina and Mecca	21
3682756665	Which city is the capital of the Abbasids and a center of the Islamic Golden Age?	Baghdad	22
3682759381	Major difference between Hinduism and Islam	Islam has more equality while Hinduism has the caste system, Islam deemphasizes material wealth, Hinduism encourages it, and Islam monotheistic and Hinduism is polytheisitic	23
3682773071	Which of the following areas of expertise progressed under the rule of the Abbasid caliphate?	Medicine, Science, and Math	24
3682778985	Which does NOT belong in a list of reasons why the decline of the Roman and Abbasid Empires?	Imperial conversion to a new religion	25
3682787049	Which of the following is NOT TRUE in a comparison of Western Europe and the Islamic Empire?	Western Europe was way more advanced than the Islamic Empire	26
3682791805	The Crusades were fought between two religious groups?	Christians and Muslims	27
3682798874	Which of the following religions does Jerusalem NOT hold a special significance?	Hinduism	28
3682803446	Muslim group renewed Islam with an injection of mysticism that helped spread it to South and Southeast Asia	Sufis	29
3682807816	The common unifying feature of Sub-Saharan African societies in post classical era	common Bantu linguistic roots	30
3682813418	Of the POST CLASSICAL cities listed below, which was the most sophisticated?	Timbuktu	31
3682816638	Origins of the Swahili Language	Arabic-Bantu mix	32
3682822971	Practices of Muslims in Western Africa compared to the greater Islamic world	fewer restrictions on females and had more gender equality	33
3682829528	What allowed for trade and the spread of Islam to West and Sub-Saharan Africa?	Camels	34
3682830732	Ibn Battuta was	Traveler who spread Islam and criticized Islamic leaders	35
3682835294	Primary product being traded on the AFRICAN trade routes?	slaves	36
3682839107	With the fall of Western Roman empire, capital was moved to which Eastern Roman Empire city?	Constantinople	37
3682841993	Byzantine Emperor that had the longest impact on civilization in the E. Mediterranean and beyond	Justinian	38
3689582317	Which does NOT belong in a list of similarities between by Byzantine and Tang China	Complete separation of belief system and state	39
3689597022	Significance of the Byzantine Empire included all of the following except	Empire's conquest of the Ottomans, including the Middle East	40
3689605361	What were the issues causing the schism of the Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox Church?	use of yeast in bread and celibacy for priests	41
3689611005	Constantinople was wealthy (True or False)	True	42
3689616467	Why was Charlemagne considered a "bright light in the dark ages"	Had commercial ties with Byzantine and mirrored Greece and Rome	43
3689623962	Which is NOT a characteristic of Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 CE	Increase in literature and education	44
3689629974	Political and social order of societies that decentralized authority (W. Europe and Japan)	Feudalism	45
3689634224	The primary duty of males above the serf class trained in military service	knighthood	46
3689639306	NOT an effect of the Black Death	Scientists discovered vaccines	47
3689648925	Top authority of Western Europe circa 500-1450	The Pope	48
3689654261	Significance and aftermath of the Viking invasions?	Founded nations and developed trade routes	49
3689660264	The purpose of human sacrifice in Mayan and Aztec religion?	believed the gods needed blood	50
3689663955	What happened to the Vikings?	adopted Christianity, settled and intermingled in other regions, and adopted agriculture and settled in warmer regions	51
3689677032	Mayan and Aztec Civilization managed to construct monumental structures without the help of...	beasts of burden	52
3689683260	The role of peasants in Aztec society?	Farmers and builders	53
3689688466	What was the primary purpose of Aztec tribute?	Provide food for the nobles class and emperor	54
3689702185	Key infrastructural development of the Tang-Song era of China?	Grand Canal	55
3689710471	How did foot binding diminish independence of Chinese women in the Song era	sufficiently crippled women and limited their mobility	56
3689715154	Which is NOT a native Chinese invention?	Steam powered machinery	57
3689725549	Title earned by students who passed the most difficult part of the Chinese Civil Service exam	Scholar-gentry	58
3689730664	Tang ruler who attempted to have Buddhism recognized as a state religion	Empress Wu	59
3689738293	Which statement describes the position of the Scholar-Gentry during the Song Dynasty?	Scholar-Gentry dominated over aristocracy and Buddhists	60
3689747364	Chinese sailors and merchants became a dominate force in Asian seas because of	Junks	61
3689751203	Religion during the Tang dynasty	Mostly Buddhist, but towards the end it was Confusicus	62
3689761925	Which country did Chinese civilization last the longest and was the most profound?	Korea	63
3689768787	Which society most closely mirrored feudal Japanese patterns of feudalism	Western Europe	64
3689774981	What religion played a role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan?	Buddhism	65
3689781463	members of the Japanese warrior class that were mounted troops loyal to the military elite	Samurai	66
3689786698	Long distance trade network stabilized during the Pax Mongolica	Silk Road	67
3689792223	The Mongol policy on how to treat peoples who resisted their rule	terrifying retribution	68
3689797921	Which region of the world did the Golden Horde conquer?	Russia	69
3689801305	Long term effects of the Mongolian rule on Russia	Russia was more isolated and cut off from Renaissance	70
3689810953	Which dealt the most devasting blow to the Abbasid caliphate	Mongol invasion	71
3689816360	Which term for a political unit does not have the title of its leader as its root word?	Nation	72
3689822183	How did Mongol women view the roles of Chinese women in Confucian society?	refused to participate in Chinese practices like foot binding	73
3689829008	Early innovations launched by the Ming dynasty	mounting and huge trading expeditions	74
3689837593	Which of the following is NOT a reason why the Ming halted trade expeditions?	technological inferiority of Chinese ships and navigation	75
3689844394	Renaissance	Rebirth: revival of learning and culture	76
3689853424	Compared to medieval culture, Renaissance culture was	Concerned with earthy world, classical models, and learning	77
3689863148	NOT a reason why Italy emerged as a center of the Renaissance	Italy was spared from the Black plague due to its location	78
3689876046	Key theme of Polynesian culture from the 7th century to 1400	spurts of migration and conquest beyond the society islands	79
3689884308	What major event BEST describes a reason for newly developed European sea routes?	fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottomans	80
3689889864	long distance trade opened a path for which social group in the New World?	merchants	81
3689895435	Which New World commodity was the greatest value to the Spanish monarchy?	silver	82
3689898555	Best example of a new disease that wiped out Native Americans?	smallpox	83
3689903974	Demographic impact of the Colombian Exchange on the Old World?	Population growth in Old World due to New World crops	84
3689909671	Western power that led the pack, set up trade forts, and ran the slave trade	Portugal	85
3689914616	Which of the following BEST characterizes Western presence in Africa and Asia by 1750	Western presence was limited to coastal forts	86
3689920199	Two countries that established private trading companies and raise their own armies and coin money	Netherlands and England	87
3689926461	War among Western powers that is sometimes considered the first global conflict because of colonies	7 year war	88
3689929743	Compare British motives for settling Americans to Spanish motives of Latin America	English for religious freedom, while Spanish came for riches	89
3689936131	Which of the following is most accurate comparing absolute monarchies and limited monarchies?	Limited monarchies are restricted, and absolute are not	90
3689941916	Primary difference between the West and Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries	Russia saw more serfdom while Western Europe abolished serfdom	91
3689948815	Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 divided the world into spheres of influence belongin to	Portugal and Spain	92