AP World History Review Flashcards

5684417843	before the invention of writing	What time in the past does "prehistoric" refer to?	0
5684417844	bronze	Which of the following was NOT in wide use during the Neolithic Age	1
5684417845	nomadic lifestyle	Which of the following was NOT a result of the safer, more settled life of agricultural villages?	2
5684417846	Indus seals were found in Sumer and Sumerian items in the Indus Valley	How do we know that the people of the Indus Valley traded with the Sumerians?	3
5684417847	Its written language has not yet been deciphered	Why do we know so little about the Indus Valley civilization?	4
5684417848	Women could pursue careers and own property	What did Egyptian and Mesopotamian society have in common?	5
5684417849	by taking control of both northern and southern Mesopotamia	How did Sargon of Akkad form the first empire?	6
5684417850	The Nile flooded at regular intervals; the Tirgis and Euphrates flooded irreguluarly.	Why were the Egyptian farmers more fortunate than the farmers of Mesopotamia?	7
5684417851	Cities were planned and had their own plumbing and sewage systm	Which of the following distinguished the cities of the Indus Valley.	8
5684417852	Instead of maintaining Zhou control it led to independent lords.	How did feudalism in China fail in the end to fulfill its original purpose?	9
5684417853	Anatolia	Alexander the Great's first victories against the Persians gave him control of which region?	10
5684417855	People all over China could read it, even if they spoke other languages	What was a major advantage of the Chinese sytem of writing	11
5684417856	It allowed new rulers to justify the overthrow of a declining dynasty	How did the Mandate of Heaven affect government in China?	12
5684417857	herders	The Indo-European peoples that migrated from the steppes were mainly	13
5684417858	trade	Buddhism spread across Asia mostly as a result of...	14
5684417860	the Persians	Who was driven from Greece shortly before the golden age of Athens began?	15
5684417861	mountains	What seperated the different regions within Greece?	16
5684417862	Macedonia received effective assistance from Persia	Which of the following was NOT a reason why Macedonia conquered Greece?	17
5684417863	It became the foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic culture.	Why was Alexandria, Egypt, important during the Hellenistic period?	18
5684417864	nirvana	In Buddhism, the release from selfishness and pain is known as	19
5684417865	Aryans	The social class system that came to be known as the caste system was established in India by	20
5684417866	Torah	The most sacred writings of the Jewish religion are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the	21
5687123479	The establishment of a Confucian civil service examination did not significantly increase social mobility under the_______	Koryu Dynasty	22
5684417867	Phoenicians	The most able seafarers of the early Mediterranean were the	23
5684417868	reincarnation	Hinduism and Buddhism have a common belief in	24
5684417869	phonetic symbols	The phoenicians contributed greatly to written communication by introducing the first use of	25
5684417870	mutual promise between God and humanity	In the Hebrew tradition, a vconvenant is a(n)	26
5684417871	ironworking	The Hitties were able to excel at war because of their knowledge of	27
5684417872	introduction of the phonetic alphabet	A phoenician contribution that people still benefit from today is the	28
5684417873	moksha and nirvana	The two items below that are most similar are	29
5685065906	The Major power struggles in the early Roman republic were Between?	Members of the aristocracy and common citizens	30
5684417874	unify the people of Canaan into one kingdom	According to the Torah, Moses did all of the following EXCEPT	31
5684417875	Having little concern for nature	The minoans were known for all of the following EXCEPT -	32
5684417876	ethical monotheism	The emphasis on right conduct and the worship of one God is called	33
5684417877	unifying the 12 tribes	Israel's King Solomon was known for all of the following EXCEPT (constructing a great temple, building a trading empire, great wisdom or unifying the 12 tribes)	34
5684417878	civil and religious laws of Judaism	The Ten commandments became the basis for the	35
5684417879	the caste system	Hinduism and Buddhism differe significantly in their beliefs about	36
5684417882	played specific roles in society	During the Vedic Age, members of each varna	37
5684417883	Egypt's dominance of Nubia	What was the relationship between Egypt and Nubia during the period of the New Kingdom?	38
5684417884	relationships	To restore social order, harmony, and good government, Confucius believed it was neccessary for society to be organized around what general category?	39
5684417885	Darius	Which of the following rulers is as famous for his extrraordinary skills as a government administrator as for his military conquests?	40
5684417886	tolerance of diversity	Among the conquereors ofthe ancient world, what was Cyrus famous for?	41
5684417887	Assyrians	For which peoples were bridges, ladders, and tunnels important elements in their military successes?	42
5684417888	natural order	What do Daoism and the concept of yina and yang focus on?	43
5684840879	Which Belief of the prophet Zoroaster was similar to later concepts in Christianity and Islam	Concept of Satan and a belief in angels OR monotheism	44
5684417889	by defeating invaders and crushing internal opposition	How did Shi Huangdi unify China?	45
5684417890	He was famous for his tolerance of diversity	What was Cyrus like as a ruler?	46
5684417891	opposition from new and powerful enemies	What was the main reason for the Egyptian empire's decline?	47
5684417892	Confucius	Which of the following was a philosopher known for his emphasis on responsible relationships and respect for parents?	48
5684872189	What necessity caused the Assyrians to develop a strong army	With no natural barriers, Assyria had to defend itself from frequent attacks	49
5684905402	What were the underlying objectives that gave rise to the Chinese Philosophies of Confucius, Laozi, and the Legalists	How to restore social order, harmony, and respect for authority	50
5684938576	What caused the major difficulties in uniting ancient Greeks under a single goverment?	The geography of the region	51
5684417893	autocracy	What is the name for the kind of government that Shi Huangdi formed, in which the ruler had unlimited power and used it in an arbitay manner?	52
5684417894	They were both city-states	Which of the following did Athens and Sparta have in common?	53
5684417895	Persian Empire, Egypt, and the Indus Valley	After conquering Greece, Alexander the Great conquered which regions?	54
5684417896	Mycenaens; Dorians; Macedonians	What is the order in which these three peoples dominated Greece?	55
5684417897	He established schools for job applicants	What did Wudi do to improve his system of bureaucracy?	56
5684417898	Alexander's quick victory made him want the entire Persian Empire	Why did Alexander the Great refuse the peace settlement from Darius III?	57
5684417899	An archaeologist discovered the possible remains of ancient Troy.	Why do archaeoologists think the Trojan War actually took place?	58
5684417900	increased the number of paid public officials	What was an important feature of Athenian democracy under Pericles?	59
5684417901	advances in literature, art, science, and mathematics	What did Indian civilization experience during the Gupta Empire?	60
5684417902	sorrow over the slaughter at Kalinga	What inspired Asoka to convert to Buddism?	61
5684417903	Mahayana Buddhism was more accesible to the masses.	What was the difference between Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism?	62
5684417904	How did Confucian teachings define women's roles?	Women should be restricted to domestic and family life.	63
5684417905	Which of the following is NOT true of Wudi?	He was saddened by war and adopted a policy of peace.	64
5684417906	the chief executives of the government	In the early Roman government, who were the consuls?	65
5684417907	members of the aristocracy and common citizens	The major power struggles in the early Roman republic were between..	66
5684417908	Control of the Mediterranean Sea	What conflict of interest lay between Rome and Carthage?	67
5684417910	fear of attacks by the Huns	Why did Germanic peoples invade the Roman Empire?	68
5684417909	It freed all slaves	Which of the following is NOT true about the Roman code of laws known as the Twelve Tables?	69
5684417911	power rests with citizens who have the right to select their leaders	After the Romans drove the last Etruscan monarch from power, they established a republic, a government in which...	70
5684417912	would not worship roman gods	Roman rulers opposed Christianity because Christians...	71
5684417913	the forced dispersal of Jews	The Jewish Diaspora refers to...	72
5684417914	a strong military	___ was NOT a reason for the decline of the Roman Empire	73
5684417915	to make control of the Empire more efficient	The emperor's purpose for dividing the Roman Empire was...	74
5684417916	What did Kautilya's Arthasastra teach?	how to hold a vast empire together	75
5684417917	paper, the two-bladed plow, and the wheelbarrow	What advances in technology develpped during the Han Dynasty?	76
5684417918	Christianity	What did King Ezana of Aksum establish as the kingdom's oficial religion during his reign?	77
5684417919	Mxico	In what present-day land do archaeologists believe the first Americans built an advanced civilization?	78
5684417920	"submission to the will of Allah"	What does Islam mean in Arabic?	79
5684417921	the Gospels in the Christian Bible	What is the main source of information about the life of Jesus of Nazareth?	80
5684417923	architecture, engineering, law, language	Which of the following groups of terms best summarizes the lagacy of the Roman Empire?	81
5684417922	He stabilized the frontier, erected splendid public buildings, and created an enduring government	Why was Augustus the most able emperor of Rome?	82
5684417925	Many people could become Buddhas	What new belief helped Buddhism become popular with the masses?	83
5684417924	Europe and the United States	Of the following regions, which are still stronglu influenced by the achievements of Rome?	84
5684417926	silk production	What became a closely guarded secret in China?	85
5684417927	increased trade	What encouraged the rise of the banking system in India?	86
5684417928	They could profit by acting as middlemen	What did Indians discover when they learned about the SIlk Roads?	87
5684417929	Zapotec	Which of the following was a Mesoamerican civilization?	88
5685824478	What scientific concept did Indian astronomers prove long before Europeans did?	The earth is round	89
5684417930	they were Matriarchal	How did the family structure of some Tamil groups differ from the family structre in Noether India?	90
5684417931	south or southeast	What were the main directions of the migrations of Bantu-speamking peoples?	91
5685856684	How did Empress Lu maintain her power	She named one infant emperor and then another	92
5684417932	grassy plains	What are Africa's savannas?	93
5684417933	It created monopolies on the mining of salt and the forging of iron.	How did the Chinese government establish control over commerce and manufacturing?	94
5684417934	"the people"	What does the word Bantu mean?	95
5684417935	They considered the emperors to be semidivine	Why did the Chinese accept the Han emperors' exercise of power?	96
5684417936	advances in Indian surgical techniques	What did NOT happen as a result of trade?	97
5684417937	modern numerals	Which of the following was invented in India?	98
5684417938	creator, preserver, and destroyer	What do the Hindugods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva represent?	99
5684417940	they were following game	WHat do most archaeologists think was the reason that some of the earliest Americans crossed Beringia?	100
5684417939	The population of China had increased, and there wwere many people to feed.	Why did Confucian scholars consider agriculture the most important occupation duringthe Han Dynasty?	101
5684417941	Mexico	In what present-day land do archaeologists believe the first American built an advanced civilization	102
5684417942	Zapotec	Which of the following was a Mesoamerican civilization	103
5684417943	"submission to the will of Allah"	What does Islam mean in Arabic?	104
5684417944	He was the last and greatest of the prophets	WHat do Muslims believe about Muhammad?	105
5684417945	through a strong Bureaucracy	How did the Abbasids conterol their large empire?	106
5684417946	shah	Which of the following names was used for Seljuk rulers?	107
5684417947	Yaroslav's division of his realm among his sons	Political instability in Kievan Russia was caused by which of the following	108
5684417948	effective legal codes	Justinian and Yaroslav the Wise BOTH created	109
5684417949	Yaroslav the Wise and Ivan III	Marriage was used as a political tool by	110
5684417950	Mongol and Russia armies refused to fight	Russia achieved liberation from Mongol rule after the	111
5684417951	Byzantine Empire	Orthodox Christianity became the state religion of which of the following?	112
5684417952	Umayyads	Who replaced the last of the "rightly guided" caliphs?	113
5684417953	Shi'a	What division of Islam believes that only a relative of Muhammad is quilified to be a caliph?	114
5684417954	Muhammad's emphasis on study and scholarship	What encouraged Muslim leaders to support places of learning such as the House of Wisdom?	115
5684417955	algebra	Which academic cubject was developed by al-Khwarizmi?	116
5684417956	Mecca	Toward what city do Muslims pray?	117
5684417957	the major duties required of all Muslims	What are the Five Pillars of Islam?	118
5684417958	military duty	Which of the following is NOT one of the Five Pillars of Islam?	119
5684417959	Muslims wanted to k now the precise direction of Mecca	Why did the Muslim way of praying elad to advances in astronomy?	120
5684417960	Shari'a	What system of law regulatews the family life, moral confuct, and the business and community life of Muslims?	121
5684417962	All Muslims were considered first-class citiznes	What was NOT true of the Muslim class system?	122
5684417963	by translating works of Aristotle and Plato	How did Muslim scholars help preserve European culture?	123
5684417965	Which of the following was NOT advanced during the Muslim Empire?	Portatiture	124
5684417964	Scholars there translated the scientific and philophical text into Arabic	Why was Baghdad's House of Wisdom Significant	125
5684417968	What is the best Muslim model for proper living?	the Sunna	126
5686179062	What was the perffered approach of muslim scientists	Experiments in laboratory settings	127
5684417966	How were conquered peoples treated by the Muslim Empire	Their religions were tolerate, but restrictions and taxes were imposed	128
5684417967	What was true of the "rightly guided" caliphs	They based their leadership on the Qur'an and Muhammad's actions	129
5684417969	Who did Muslims consider the "people of the book"?	Jews and Christians	130
5684417970	Vladiamir's rule	The combination of church and state influenced which of the following	131
5684417971	the invention of the magnetic compass	What helped China to become a great sea power under Song leadership	132
5684417972	They were influenced by Indian culture	What does Angkor Wat reveal about the Khmer Empire?	133
5684417973	Muslim law prohibited the drawing of living beings	Why did Muslim artists use calligraphy in their work?	134
5684417974	the Sunna	The Qur'an and what other work form the shari'a, or body of Islamic law?	135
5684417975	the Justinian Code	Which of the following was the body of civil law created for the Byzantine Empire?	136
5684417976	the Pope	During the 8th-century dispute over icons, which of the following supported the use of icons?	137
5684417977	Saint Methodius and Saint Cyril	Who invented the alphabet that is used by many SLavic languages	138
5684417978	Khanate of the Golden Horde	What was the Mongol Emire in Russia called?	139
5684417979	czar	Which of the following titles did Ivan III use?	140
5684417980	Turkish slaves who became a powerful force in the Abbasid Empire	Who were the mamelukes?	141
5684417981	Islam	The Seljuks converted to which of the following religions?	142
5684417982	through briilliant military strategy and organization	How did Genghkis Khan succeed as a conqueror?	143
5684417983	It was a symbolic mountain built to honor the Hindu god Vishnu	Why was the Khmer city-and-temple complex Angkor Wat built?	144
5684417984	what areas did the Heian court of Japan advance	art, culture, and ediquette	145
5684417985	the nomadic way of life	Which Mongolian practice did Kublai Khan NOT follow?	146
5684417986	the Mongol Empire was the largest unified land empire in history	WHat was true of the Mongol Empire?	147
5684417987	It stopped a Mongolian invasions	What did the kamikaze, or divine wind, do for Japan	148
5684417988	Shinto	What did Japanese worshippers combine with Buddhism?	149
5684417989	Ideas and inventions spread with trade betweren Europe and Assia	What happened during the Pax Mongolica?	150
5684417990	He believed that Mongols and foreigners had no local loyalties	Why did Kiblai Khan favor Mongols and foreigners for government posts?	151
5684417991	an emperor who reigned as a figurehead while another power ruled	Wha was an enduring characteristic of Japanese government?	152
5684417992	Julius Caesar	Which Roman ruler held the title of dictator or absolute ruler at the time of his assassination by members of the Senate?	153
5684417993	plebeians	What were the common citizens of Rome called	154
5684417994	Paul	Which Chrstian leader wrote letters that formed the Epistles of the New Testament to groups of believers?	155
5684417995	aqueducts	What were the Roman channels that brought water to cities and towns around the empire?	156
5684417996	Constantine	WHo moved the capital of the Roman EMpire from Rome to Byzantium?	157
5684417997	classical	Greco-Roman culture is also referered to as what kind of culture?	158
5684417998	pastoralists	Nomadic peoples who herded animals were called	159
5684417999	Khmer Empire	The ___ built Angkor Wat, one of the greatest architectural chievements in the world	160
5684418000	Tang Taizong	The dynsty founded by --- expanded CHina, promoted foreign trade, and promoted improvements in agriculture	161
5684418001	Kiblai Khan	The mongol ruler --- united CHina fro the first time in 300 years	162
5684418002	samurai	--- were loyal warriers and bodyguards of their lords	163
5684418003	shogun	A leader with the title of --- had the power of a military dictattor in Japan	164
5684418004	Marco Polo	Most European readers did not believe the stories tha tthe Venetian merchant --- told about what he had seen in Chhina	165
5684418005	movable type	---, an important Cinese technological advance, reveolutionized printing	166
5684418006	Spartans	Which people emphasixed duty, strength, and discipline?	167
5684418007	Mycenaeans	Who preserved and spread aspects of the Minoan culture?	168
5684418008	Dorians	Who moved into the Greek world and reigned for about 400 years and left no written record?	169
5684418009	phalanx	What battle formation produced the most powerful fighting force in the ancient world?	170
5684418010	Peloponnesian	Sparta's declaration of war against Athens began which war?	171
5684418011	legions	What were Rome's military forced called?	172
5684418013	Pax Romana	WHat was the period of peace and prosperity that lasted 208 years?	173
5684418012	Diocletian	Which emperor divided the empire into greek-speaking East and Latin-speaking West?	174
5684418014	Peter	Who is considered to be the first pope of the Christian Church?	175
5684418016	Euclid	Who wrote the well-known book Elements, which is the basis for modern geometry?	176