AP World History Chapter 12 Vocab Flashcards
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| 5382465478 | Igbo (4) | People whose lands were east of the Niger River (1) in what is now southern Nigeria in West Africa (1); they build a complex society (1) that rejected kingship and centralized statehood (1). | 0 | |
| 5382477234 | Fulbe (3) | West Africa's (1) largest pastoral society (1), whose members gradually adopted Islam (1). | 1 | |
| 5382483749 | Ming dynasty (4) | Chinese dynasty (1368-1644) (1) that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols; noted for its return to traditional Chinese ways (1) and restoration of the land (1) after the destructiveness of the Mongols (1). | 2 | |
| 5382497145 | Renaissance, European (6) | A "rebirth" (1) of classical learning (1) that is most often associated with the cultural blossoming of Italy in the period 1350-1500 (1) and that included not just a rediscovery of Greek learning (1) but also major developments in art (1), as well as growing secularism (1) in society. | 3 | |
| 5382519403 | Seizure of Constantinople (3) | The capital and almost the only outpost left of the Byzantine Empire (1) fell to the army of the Ottomans in 1453(1), marked the end of Christian Byzantium (1). | 4 | |
| 5382546648 | Safavid Empire (3) | Major Turkic empire of Persia (1) founded in the early sixteenth century (1), notable for it s efforts to convert its populace to Shia Islam (1). | 5 | |
| 5382557387 | Timbuktu (4) | Great trading city (1) of West Africa (1) noted int he fourteenth-sixteenth centuries (1) as a center of Islamic scholarship (1). | 6 | |
| 5382566676 | Aztec Empire (3) | Major state that developed in what is now Mexico (1) in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (1); dominated by the semi nomadic Mexica (1) who had migrated into the region from Northern Mexico. | 7 | |
| 5382579305 | Inca Empire (5) | The Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state (1) in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries (1); built by a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people (1) the empire stretched some 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains (1), which ran nearly the entire length of the west coast of South America, and contained 10 million subjects (1). | 8 | |
| 5382598729 | Mit'a (3) | Mandatory public service (1) int he society of the Inca Empire (1). A form of coerced labor (1). | 9 | |
| 5382603054 | Zheng He (3) | Great Chinese admiral (1) who commanded a fleet of more than 300 ships in a series of voyages of contact and exploration to enhance Chinese prestige (1). Began in 1405 (1). | 10 |