AP World History Flashcards

3565499821	Prehistory	Time period before writing	0
3565499822	Neolithic Revolution	Shift that occurred from hunting and gathering to agriculture societies	1
3565499823	Basic characteristics of a civilization	Government, Cities, Religion, Social Structure, Writing, Art	2
3565499824	Importance of writing	Enabled people to keep accurate records	3
3565499827	Tigris-Eurphrates	Mesopotamia	4
3565499828	Nile	Egypt	5
3565499829	Indis-Hurapha	India	6
3565499830	Haung He	China	7
3565499831	Sumerians	World's first complex civilization	8
3565499832	Judaism	First monotheistic religion	9
3565499834	Ancient Egypt time periods	Old, Middle, New	10
3565499836	Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro	The Capitals of early Indian Society, traded with mesopotamians	11
3565499837	Aryans	Probably originated from Ukraine or Southern Russia, helped spread variation of religion, Probably the first to domesticate horse, created caste system	12
3565499838	Caste system (Remember the order)	Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Suitches	13
3565499839	Hindu concepts	dharma, samsara, varna, karma..	14
3565499840	dharma	Universal truth	15
3565499841	samsara	Repeating the cycle of birth	16
3565499842	varna	quality of person	17
3565499843	karma	sum of actions	18
3565499845	Time period and dynastic order	Yangshuo, Xia, Shang, Zhou,	19
3565499846	Mandate of heaven	Created by Zhou: Help justify rule, allow rulers to serve as link between heaven and earth	20
3565499847	Period of the Warring States	Big civil war during Zhou dynasty	21
3565499849	Olmecs	First society of Mesoamerica	22
3565499850	The relationship between the aboriginal peoples of Australia and New Guinea	The people of Australia were hunters, while New Guinea was agriculture society	23
3565499852	Dynastic Order	Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids	24
3565499853	Importance of the Persian Roads (The Royal Road)	Well maintained road throughout persia, allowed for efficient system of communication to be spread throughout empire	25
3565499855	Confucius beliefs on political and social harmony	Rose from proper arranging of human relationships	26
3565499856	Qin Shihuangdi's policies and contributions	Created strong centralized government, began construction of large public work projects, helped build protective walls around border cities, adopted legalism (outlawed learning and confucianism ).	27
3565499857	Liu Pang	Peasant who founded the Pang Dynasty	28
3565499860	Indian political landscape during the time of the Aryans	Broken into small regional kingdoms	29
3565499861	Siddhartha Gautama	The Buddha, founded buddhism	30
3565499862	The role merchants played in the spread of Buddhism	By trade along the silk road taught others of buddhism	31
3565499863	Key of trade through Indian Ocean basin	Control the Monsoon Winds	32
3565499864	Asoka	Greatest ruler in history of India, adopted Buddhism	33
3565499866	Greek colonization	Helped increase size throughout mediterranean, spread of Greek language culture, helped quicken tempo of social life	34
3565499867	Women in the Greek world	Not citizens, little rights	35
3565499868	Thucydides	He is considered to be the greatest historian of ancient world	36
3565499869	Results of Alexander the Great's conquests	Helped spread greek culture, language, art, architecture throughout southeast asia	37
3565499871	Roman policy toward conquered people	Very generous used citizenship as a political tool to create peace between them and conquered people	38
3565499872	Augustus Caesar	Rome's first emperor, helped create monarchia even though it was a Republic	39
3565499873	Paterfamilias	Roman term which referred to the patriarchal nature of Roman families	40
3565499875	Edict of Milan	Legalized christianity throughout Roman empire	41
3565499877	The land route of the silk roads	Chang'an to Antioch	42
3565499879	Muhammad	Founder of Islam	43
3565499880	Shari'ah	Law code that regulates daily life of Muslims	44
3565499883	Muslim world contributions to Europeans	Helped Europeans recover works from Aristotle from them	45
3565499884	Umayyad dynasty's treatment toward conquered people	Allowed them to maintain religions	46
3565499885	Five Pillars of Islam	Call to Prayer, Pilgrimage, Fasting, Charity to Pair, Statement	47
3565499886	Jihad	Struggle in the way of god	48
3565499887	Resentment against Umayyad rule	Non Arabs had no power	49
3565499888	Mesopotamia and Persia influence on the role of women in the Islamic world	Created a more Patriarchal society	50
3565499889	How did young men prepare for the civil service examination in China during the Tang dynasty?	Practice writing on confucian text	51
3565499890	Neo-Confucianism	Emergence of new form of Confucianism that emerged during Tang and Sang dynastty	52
3565499891	Grand Canal	Connected Haung He and Changjiang	53
3565499892	Technological developments during the Tang dynasty	Gunpowder, boating technology, chinware	54
3565499893	Chinese expansion during the Tang dynasty	China armies pushed into Korea, Tibet, Vietnam, Manchuria, or southeast asia	55
3565499894	Foot binding	Binding of elite women's feet during Tang dynasty	56
3565499895	Credit system in China	Began to use credit system in Tang and Sang dynasty	57
3565499896	Chinese literature	Began to flourish during Sang and Tang dynasties	58
3565499897	Shintoism	Japanese religion that ancestors have influence on daily lives	59
3565499898	Buddhism and Daoism in China	After collapse of Han dynasty people became attracted to bring stability	60
3565499899	Zen Buddhism and Buddhism in Japan	Brought from China, The popular sect of Buddhism in Japan	61
3565499900	China and trade with Southeast Asia	Trade began to flourish in area in Tang and Sang	62
3565499901	Political structure of postclassical India	Mostly small regions	63
3565499902	Factors that led Islam to India	Islamic armies moving from West to East to Northwest India	64
3565499903	Monsoons effect on farming in India	Six months of rain and six months of harvest time	65
3565499904	Indian Ocean trade	dictated by Monsoons winds	66
3565499905	India's influence on Southeast Asia	They became a major trade hub for the region	67
3565499906	The Byzantine Empire/Rome	considered by Historians a continuation of what was Rome	68
3565499907	Byzantium's geographical advantage	Was only one narrow landway into city	69
3565499908	Constantinople...	Constructed by Constantin Built in order to keep watch over Sassanid Empire in Persia Wealthier and more productive part of old Roman empire	70
3565499909	Caesaropapism	Term in which empire has a mixture of religion and political authority	71
3565499910	Justinian's law code...	Most long lasting political achievement Codification of old Roman law	72
3565499911	Carolingian Renaissance	First major political structure after fall of Rome, by Franks	73
3565499912	Charlemagne	Most important ruler	74
3565499913	Theme system	Refers to a system of land grants given to soldiers fighting for Byzantine army.	75
3565499914	Feudalism	The political and social order of Medieval Europe	76
3565499915	Lord/Vassal relationship	Relationship based obligations on Protection for one another	77
3565499916	Agricultural production in medieval Europe	It increased as a result of heavier plows	78
3565499917	The Great Schism	The split between The Roman Catholic And Eastern Orthodox church	79
3565499918	Norse mariner merchants	Carried scandinavian products to bassad empire in exchange for carolingian	80