AP World History Cumulative Questions Flashcards

7789959630	Cyrus the Great	Builds the Persian Empire.	0
7789963662	Sumer city-states	Were agriculturally based, mastered bronze, built public works projects, and warfare amongst them was common.	1
7789967130	Phoenicians	Developed the alphabet.	2
7789970323	Reincarnation	Affects everyone in India & provides hope to low caste.	3
7789973104	Jati	Categorized large numbers of individual families; took care of their poor & weak; was a stabilizing factor (everyone had a role to play); had limited upward mobility w/in the larger caste.	4
7789990473	Indians give Chandragupta Maurya	Credit for defeating Alex the Great.	5
7789992926	A difference between Hinduism & Buddhism	Was that Buddhism rejected Hindu gods.	6
7789996172	India Chronology:	Rise & fall of Harrapa, Aryan invasions, rise of Hinduism, Mauryan dynasty, spread of Buddhism.	7
7789999401	Asoka	Became a Buddhist & changed his governing philosophies.	8
7790002749	Rule of the Fishes	Warfare is the sport of kings.	9
7790006964	Kautilya's Arthasastra	Emphasized the need for practical politics over divine law.	10
7790009202	Shang dynasty government	King viewed as intermediary between heaven & earth; Zhou later name this concept the Mandate of Heaven & add to the theory.	11
7790014161	Comparison Han & Rome:	Han China is replicated in latter dynasties; Rome disappears forever.	12
7790019962	Confucius	Main text is the Analects.	13
7790021894	Filial piety	Makes the desires of the father the primary concern; he's supposed to guide the family w/wisdom; good of the group (not the individual).	14
7790023539	Zhou is	The longest dynasty, ~700 yrs	15
7790026185	Confucius believed	In jobs based on merit & government depended on the will of the people.	16
7790030191	During Dark Ages Greeks colonized	Byzantium & Ionia.	17
7790037357	Classical Athens	Was male-dominated, used slaves, was agriculturally based, major role to the family, homosexuality was accepted.	18
7790040677	Pericles builds	Mini-Athenian Empire through funds gathered from Delian League.	19
7790042029	Cleisthenes helped create	The foundation for a future democracy.	20
7790043544	Sparta was	A military state.	21
7790046082	Plato wrote	The Republic which identified a utopian society based on 3 classes.	22
7790052497	Comparison between Rome & Inca:	Both were able to integrate people from distance lands due to the construction of roads (difference: free movement vs. forced relocation).	23
7790053980	Roman Senate	Consisted of 300 men elected for life.	24
7790057976	Rome has	Aqueducts.	25
7790061319	The Republic	Ended w/the death of Caesar (senators killed him on the Ides of March).	26
7790063077	The Twelve Tablets	Served the same purpose as the Code of Hammurabi & the laws of Draco in Greece.	27
7790065348	Compare Rome and China	Rome was more ethnically diverse while China was more homogeneous.	28
7790067185	Rome put an emphasis on pagan celebrations to	Help create cultural unity.	29
7790068926	Caesar used resources of the government to help	Put the disenfranchised back to work building infrastructure (everyone benefits).	30
7790070331	Augustus	Legally changed the social hierarchy of Rome & created a middle class.	31
7790074795	Greek art is evidence of TWO things:	1) Continued importance of men in both classical and post-classical Greece. 2) Change over time in art; shift from perfection to honoring the reality of the human experience 3) The answer is NEVER male fertility (that's only for female figures).	32
7790078157	Long-term effect of Roman roads	Is to integrate conquered peoples into the empire and also be able to suppress resistance to Roman rule (in other words, put down rebellions).	33