AP World History Test Flashcards

4905966734	Why don't we know much about the lives of Mesopotamian women?	All scribes were male	0
4905972277	Why is the Paleolithic Period important?	Globalization of mankind	1
4905980960	In what culture were monumental structures built for rituals that involved human sacrifice and a ball game?	Mesoamerica (Mayans)	2
4905996795	If you were looking for Roman technological diffusion in France, what would be an example?	Aqueducts	3
4906001792	Why did ancient Egyptians believe the universe is an orderly place?	The Nile River flooded regularly.	4
4906007638	Name one similarity between Maya and Greeks?	Political organization in city-states	5
4906013341	What Chinese philosophy considered people to be evil but could be ruled by law?	Legalism	6
4906018050	Name on similarity between early Buddhism and early Christianity?	Excepted both male and female converts (universal)	7
4906026804	Name one major change that took place from nomadic times to agriculture.	Society became more patriarchal	8
4906031840	How did the last Ice Age help hunter gatherers?	Land bridges helped them travel further	9
4906041709	What trend among the lower class in China led to the decline of the Han Empire?	Peasants moved onto the land of large landowners.	10
4906047291	Name one similarity between Mayan use of religion and Roman use of religion?	Both used religious practices to legitimize the authority	11
4906055167	What feature of Han government helped unify the Han government?	The bureaucracy based on merit	12
4906059166	Why did Maya civilization collapse in the 9th century?	Famine in drought	13
4906066270	Why did agricultural communities replace forager societies?	They could produce a study food supply and store food.	14
4906073347	How did the Bantu spread?	Slowly, no conquest, mostly peaceful	15
4906077164	How was the process of Hellenization conducted?	Greeks married Persians, Persians followed Greek way of life.	16
4906081721	Name one major difference in workforce between Han China and Greece.	Classical Greece had lots of slave labor, China had more free peasants	17
4906094362	How were Mesoamerican and Andean cultures similar?	They were both dominated by small political organization.	18
4906098876	How did the Han Empire protect it's borders?	Frontier Fortifications (The Great Wall), bribes, recruiting foreign soldiers	19
4906106302	Why was it harder to start farming in Eurasia than in the Americas?	Eurasians kept getting animal diseases.	20
4906110929	What is the term of the gradual spread of culture w/out movement?	Cultural diffusion	21
4906115298	Out of all of the places we've studied, where do women have the most freedom?	Sparta	22
4906119762	How was the Greek way of thinking different than other civilizations we've studied?	Greeks had more confidence in human reason.	23
4906129558	How did Ancient Egyptian pharaohs control Egypt?	Centralized government and big bureaucracy	24
4906139181	In what are were there no pastoral societies?	the Americas	25
4906142695	What kind of people in the Roman Empire had the earliest converse of Christianity?	Poor people and women	26
4906146413	From where did the Persian government get their lower level officials?	Loval officials	27
4906151283	Why was China's social organization so different from other places we've looked at?	Degree to which government influenced society.	28
4906157161	Name one similarity between the Roman and the Han Empires?	They both used supernatural sanctions to rule	29
4906163105	After the fall of the Han empire, what could women become?	Buddhist monks	30
4906168373	How were many later Roman emperors chosen?	By the army	31
4906173263	How did the Roman empire carry out Romanization?	Conquests and building Roman cities and Roman roads	32
4906181471	Which religion had a cosmic struggle between Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu?	Zoroastrianism	33
4906246660	Which Roman emperor converted to Christianity and founded city of Constantinople?	Constantine	34
4906263067	In what era did Greek culture spread in to the lands of Persian Empire?	Hellenistic Era	35
4906270504	One similarity between Choco-canyan region and Mississippi River Valley civilizations.	Maize agriculture	36
4906274989	In general, what was the difference between domain for men and women in classical civilizations?	Public life was more men, home chores were for women.	37
4906279667	Similarity between Buddhism and Hinduism	Hope for final release from cycle of rebirth	38
4906284515	How did the Han, Persian, and Roman empires extend military power?	Built infrastructure and highlands (walls and roads)	39
4906288756	Similarity between Rome and Persia	Included wide diversity of ethnicity, employed local elite in government	40
4906294165	Name one common factor that contributed to the fall of the Han Empire.	Foreign invasion	41
4906299686	How was the process of building Rome different than Han?	Rome was born out of the Republic, Han was born out of the Qin Dynasty.	42
4906306717	Other than language and agriculture, what did the Bantu people spread?	Iron and metallurgy	43
4906312791	How are Judaism and Hinduism similar?	Written scriptures	44
4906323154	One difference in founder of Christianity and Buddha	Buddha never claimed to be divine, Jesus always claimed to be the "Son of God"	45
4906328888	Most significant development of the Neolithic Period	Agriculture	46
4906330860	Confucianism vs Daoism	Confucianism called for social togetherness, Daoism called for connection with nature	47
4906362553	Why are many languages in Africa similar today?	Spread of the Bantu people	48