AP World History Review Flashcards

5697301123	Ahimsa	the Hindu belief in the non-injury of any living creature.	0
5697310080	Hippocrates	founder of modern medicine	1
5697313890	Nebuchadnezzar	built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon	2
5697320838	Pericles	leader of Athens and Delian League from 461-429 BCE	3
5697329594	Anthropology	study of human life and culture	4
5697337049	Etesian Winds	winds that blew up the Nile River making transportation easy	5
5697344969	Jean Frances Champollion	used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian writing	6
5697352464	Chung Kuo	the name the Chinese called their land	7
5697366071	The Great Wall of China	Built during the Qin Dynasty	8
5697361231	Bedouins	Arab tribes of nomadic herders	9
5697445356	St. Methodius and St. Cyril	spread Orthodox Christianity northward to Slavic people	10
5697448800	Monsoons	seasonal winds	11
5697452150	Hadrian	Built fortifications to defend Rome's borders	12
5697455449	Augustus	First Roman Emperor	13
5697458268	Alaric	Visigoth king who sacked Rome	14
5697461355	Twelve Tables	the Code of Roman Laws	15
5697465846	Tiberius Gracchus	murdered for his ideas on land reform	16
5697471294	Aristophanes	wrote the comedy "The Congress Women"	17
5697474724	Euclid	developed geometry into a system; wrote the Elements	18
5697482000	Shi Huangdi	harsh ruler who built the Great Wall of China	19
5697602837	The Torah	Five books of law of the Hebrews	20
5697606929	Herodotus	Father of History; wrote history of the Persian wars	21
5697613381	Moksha	state of perfect understanding; Hinduism	22
5697621381	Shang Dynasty	dynasty that gave China its most lasting influence	23
5697646763	Sargon of Akkad	created the world's first empire when he took control of northern and southern mesopotamia	24
5697653554	Hagia Sofia	beautiful cathedral built in Constantinople	25
5697662546	dar al-Islam	Muslim Empire	26
5697662547	Ramadan	Islamic Holy Month	27
5697668575	Heinrich Schliemann	discovered the ruins of Troy	28
5697673047	Environmental Degradation	did NOT lead to the decline of Rome	29
5697844959	Marduk	god of Babylon	30
5697844960	Caligula	insane Julian emperor	31
5697847807	The Huns	not a Germanic Tribe	32
5697856028	The Battle of Adrianople	showed the Germanic tribes that the Roman legion was not invincible	33
5697860783	Marcus Lepidus	member of the Second Triumvirate	34
5697864351	Issus	victory for Alexander the Great	35
5697866983	Polis	Greek word for city-state	36
5697870090	The Battle of Salamis	naval battle where the Athenians defeated the Persians	37
5697884978	Sedentary Villages	major feature of the Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East	38
5697892089	The Analects	collection of Confucius' teachings	39
5698120447	Ramses	last pharaoh to win a major victory over Egypt's enemies	40
5698128794	Aryans	established the caste system in India	41
5698140894	Siddhartha Gautama	left isolation in his palace in an attempt to find enlightenment	42
5698146515	Solomon (Israel's King)	known for following wisdom	43
5698152006	Pharaoh Menes	first united upper and lower Egypt	44
5698168543	Catal Huyuk	a Neolithic farming village	45
5698174135	Confucius	China's greatest philosopher	46
5698178073	The Parthenon	temple to honor the goddess Athena located on top of the Acropolis in Athens	47
5698181978	Plato	philosopher, describes his ideal government in "The Republic"	48
5698190076	Archimedes	calculated the value of pi and explained the principle of levers	49
5698386298	Aeschylus	founder of Greek tragedy	50
5698391985	Philip of Macedon	defeated the Greeks at Chaeronea	51
5698395229	Latins	first settlers of Italy	52
5698397239	Tarquin the Proud	harsh Etruscan ruler	53
5698405455	Scipio Africanus	Roman general; defeated Hannibal	54
5698408212	Diocletian	Roman emperor who split the empire	55
5698411641	Marcus Aurelius	last of the good emperors	56
5698571850	Romulus Augustulus	last Roman Emperor	57
5698571851	Sanskrit	written language of the Aryans	58
5698575071	Dravidians	natives of India	59
5698577284	Gilgamesh	Sumerian Epic about a great flood	60
5698579124	Baghdad	capital of Abbasids	61
5698582218	The Analects	writings of Confucius	62
5698597014	Islam	submission to the will of god	63