AP World History 600-1450CE Flashcards

3481904269	Battle of Talas	result of the contact between Abbasid and Tang; as a result of Chinese expansion to the West being stopped, paper technology, and Buddhism declined	0
3481930519	Dar al-Islam (House of Islam)	Islam facilitated trade in this because the use of credit was less risky due to common laws and courts	1
3481949868	trade in Americas and trade in Eurasia	trade differed greatly due to civilizations in the Americas not developing along major rivers	2
3481963317	similarity of Islam in Persian Empire and diffusion of Buddhism in China	both religions could not overcome traditional views of women in these areas	3
3481972759	merchant diaspora (living outside of homeland) communities	they generally lost touch with their homelands and merged with local population	4
3481996751	What development in belief systems limited the role of women on society the most?	the merging of different Asian belief systems into Neo-Confucianism	5
3482124254	What was an important long-term demographic impact of the spread of new rice varieties in East Asia?	a rapid increase in East Asian populations	6
3482134355	What was an important continuity in the social structure of states and empires during this time?	landholding aristocracies tended to be the dominant class	7
3482161078	What was a major contributing factor to the spread of the plague to Cairo, Beijing, and Florence?	trade along the Mongol road system across Central Asia	8
3482172857	Daoism	emphasizes living in harmony with "the way" or "the principle"	9
3482197030	The Catholic church	the institution most responsible for creating cultural unity in Europe	10
3482204652	Construction of the Grand Canal	internal trade in the Sui dynasty was stimulated by this	11
3482216766	Chinese peasant revolts	peasants succeeded and set up a government of their own	12
3482230711	Mongol conquests of Eurasia encouraged trade on the Silk Roads by	decreasing the risk of bandit attacks and reducing the number of local rulers	13
3482238152	Trans-Saharan trade by 1250	Muslim merchants dominated the trade	14
3482246533	What was a significant effect of the Polynesian migrations in the Pacific?	the transfer of domesticated plant and animal species to new islands	15
3482329400	What was an important continuity in the history of the Mediterranean region between 400 and 1000?	The Byzantine Empire remained a centralized Christian Empire in the Mediterranean	16
3482339455	What was an immediate effect of the initial Muslim conquests of the 7th century?	the weakening of the Byzantine Empire and collapse of other empires	17
3482350774	What did the camel saddle, the dhow ship, and the stirrup have in common?	all were devised to overcome environmental barriers to trade	18
3482364225	How were serfs in Western Europe different from slaves?	serfs were ethnically European while slaves were Muslim, pagan, and African	19
3482369339	women in the Abbasid period	became increasingly isolated	20
3482380327	How did the Aztecs supply food in their capital?	by building agricultural islands on the lake	21
3482385262	Tang Dyansty	took possession of the land and divided it according to families' needs in order to lessen the influence of the aristocrats and decrease peasant uprisings	22
3482412474	typical pattern for relations between China and its neighbors	for these states to pay tribute but remain independent	23
3482418387	political organization of Europe between 600 and 1000CE	fragmented into small loyalty based kingdoms	24
3482433100	Historians would disagree about the relative importance of what?	The fall of the western Roman Empire	25
3482443720	Mongol rule over Russia was most like?	Chinese control over Korea	26
3482461070	the theme system	form of labor that developed between 600 and 1450 that represents an example of both free peasants and peasants who owned military service to their superiors	27
3482474805	lasting result of the Crusades	establishment of cultural and economic contacts between Europe and the Middle east	28
3482483958	major result of Islam spreading to West Africa across caravan routes	increased violence reduced the volume of trade	29
3482493001	Mongol Empire's role in facilitating trans-Eurasian trade	it reestablished the Silk Roads between East Asia and Europe	30
3482504956	What area was most benefited by the practice of terrace crop production?	The Incan Empire	31
3482521537	Byzantine theme system	success of this system was dependent on the practice of rural agriculture by a free peasantry	32
3482530865	results of climate and environmental factors during this time	milti-cultural nature of Kilwa, Calcutta, and Melacca; movement of the Vikings into Northern Europe; economic revival of Europe around 1000CE	33