AP world history Chapter Flashcards

4774033013	Roman Republic	The period from 507 to 31 BCE, Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate.	0
4774040116	Roman Senate	A council whose members were the heads of wealthy, landowning families.	1
4774042172	pardon/client relationship	In ancient Rome, a fundamental social relationship in which the patron---a wealthy and powerful individual--- provided legal and economic protection and assistance o clients...	2
4774049543	Augustus	Honorific name of Octavian, founder of the Roman Principate, the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate...	3
4774055626	equites	In ancient Italy, prosperous landowners second in wealth and status to the senatorial aristocracy.	4
4774058943	pax romana	literally, "Roman peace", it connoted the stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the land of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E.....	5
4774061592	Romanization	The process by which the Latin language and roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire......	6
4774064174	Jesus	A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel....	7
4774065522	Paul	Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia.. follower of Jesus... separate Christianity separated from Judaism.	8
4774070526	aqueduct	A conduit, either elevated or underground, using gravity to carry water from a source to a location that needed it...	9
4774074212	Third-century crisis	Historians' term for the political, military, and economic turmoil that beset the Roman Empire during much of the third century CE: frequent changes of ruler...	10
4774077986	Constantine	Roman emperor(312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire, he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a favored religion.	11
4774082303	Qin	A people and state in the Wei Vally of western China...	12
4774083067	She Huangdi	Founder of the Qin dynasty	13
4774083608	Han	1 汉人 2汉朝	14
4774085284	Xiongnu	confederation of nomadic people living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China.最后被干了	15
4774087789	Chang'an	City in the Wei Valley in eastern China.	16
4774089676	monsoon	季风 seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temp between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean water...,..	17
4774092310	Vedas	Early Indian scared "Knowledge- the literal meaning of the term,- long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.	18
4774118440	varna	种姓制度 category of social identity of great importance in Indian history.....	19
4774120769	jati	Within the system of varna are many regional groups of people who have a common occupational sphere, and who marry, eat, and generally interact with other members of their group.	20
4774124491	Karma	Indian tradition, the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a spirit... next life cycle	21
4774126861	moksha	解脱The Hindu concept of the spirit's liberation from the endless cycle of rebirths	22
4774128537	Buddha	Siddhartha Gautama	23
4774131537	Mahayana Buddhism	大乘Great Vehicle branch of Buddhism followed in China	24
4774133315	Theravada Buddhism	小乘 Way of the Elders branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia.	25
4774206232	Hinduism	A general term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have develop in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity....	26
4774206233	Mauryan Empire	孔雀王朝 the first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 BCE and survived until 184 BCE.	27
4774210945	Ashoka	third ru;er pf the Mauryan Empire in India(270-232 BCE)	28
4774211815	Mahabharata	史诗A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India......	29
4774214984	Bhagavad-Gita	史诗中最有名的The most important work of Indian scared literature, a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.	30
4774219899	Tamil kingdoms	The kingdoms of southern India, inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages, which developed in partial isolation, and somewhat differently, from the Aryan north.They produced epics, poetry, and performance arts.	31
4774224769	Gupta Empire	A powerful Indian state based, like its Mauryan predecessor, on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley. it controlled most of the indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.	32
4774229012	theater-state	Historians' term for a state that acquire prestige and powder by developing attractive cultural forms and staging elaborate public ceremonies to attract and bind subject	33
4774260848	Funan	An early complex society in Southeast Asia between the first and sixth centuries CE. it was centered in the rich rice-growing region of southern Vietnam.......	34
4774263401	Srivijaya	A state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra,.....	35
4774265456	Borobodur	A massive stone monument on the Indonesian island of java,...... buddhist allegory for the progressive stages of enlightenment.	36