AP World History Chapter 6 Flashcards

8104799137	Christianity	a religion that is monotheistic and is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.	0
8104817392	Attila the Hun	Leader of the Huns who extended from Germany to China, and had part in the declines of the Han, Gupta, and Roman Empires.	1
8104821914	Kush	conquered Egypt in 750 BCE	2
8104826338	Axum	conquered Kush in 300 BCE, but was later overthrown by Ethiopia..	3
8104843062	Japan	by 200 CE had developed extensive agriculture. Their religion was Shintoism, which believed in the spirits of nature.	4
8104852310	Aztec	centered in central and southern Mexico, in the city of Teotihuacan, and the empire there was second in size only to Rome.	5
8104854817	Maya	centered in Central America, by 900 CE the empire was mostly deserted, it is not clear why.	6
8104854818	Incas	rose to power in 800 CE in Peru, and expanded a giant empire across most of western South America.	7
8104941254	Polynesia	a group of many islands scattered through the Pacific Ocean began to develop, and people began to create new isolated cultures.	8
8104969324	Mahayana	the Chinese version of Buddhism.	9
8104974605	Plague	many plagues were the reasons for the declines of large empires because they decreased the size of the population, which led to a weaker economy and empire.	10
8104988924	Islam	emerged in the Middle East in the 6th century.	11
8105011091	Han Dynasty: Decline and Fall of	bureaucrats became corrupted, while landowners avoided taxes. There were internal uprisings through the formation of private armies, and there were external attacks from the Huns that shook the already decentralized and corrupt government. It then fell into turmoil until 618 CE.	12
8105013011	Gupta Dynasty: Decline and Fall of	the Huns invaded this empire as well, which was unstable due to corrupt and low quality government officials. In 550 CE, it collapsed, and since then, Hinduism and the caste system have ruled India, and allowed it to expand into one of the largest countries in the world.	13
8105013012	Rome: Decline and Fall of	political brutality and tax collections in addition to a smaller population due to a high mortality rate because of disease hurt Rome and many surrounding kingdoms, which in turn created political and economical turmoil that could not be reversed. The government became decentralized with a second capital in Constantinople, and Germanic Huns then invaded and finished the job.	14
8105087141	Byzantine Empire	the empire that rose in the eastern parts of the Roman Empire after the fall. Constantinople was the center of this Empire that maintained Hellenistic culture.	15