AP World History Flashcards

7902708291	Israel	an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea	0
7902714462	First Temple	Built by Solomon (c 950 BCE) and destroyed by the Babylonians in 587/6 BCE. = First Temple Period	1
7902717534	Ten commandments	Received by Moses on Mt. Sinai; guidelines for how to live as God's people.	2
7902719817	Monotheistic	Belief in one god	3
7902721342	Polytheistic	Belief in many gods	4
7902732613	Hoplite	A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.	5
7902734088	Persian wars	A series of wars between Persia and Greece	6
7902736277	Peloponnesian war	War between Athens and Sparta	7
7902737390	direct democracy	A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives	8
7902741353	Athens	Greece	9
7902742633	Sparta	an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess	10
7902744031	Socrates	Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth	11
7902745439	Pythagoras	Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem	12
7902747780	Alexander the great	King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia	13
7902748817	Hellenism	the principles and ideals associated with classical Greek civilization	14
7902750415	Darius	King of Persia	15
7902751947	Zoroastrianism	system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster noun	16
7902752943	Legion	in large numbers	17
7902756042	Twelve tables of Rome	codified laws of Rome, major step towards modern law	18
7902757821	Patricians	The wealthy, hereditary aristocrats during the Roman era.	19
7902760296	plebeians	common people	20
7902761580	Consuls	The two most powerful magistrates in Rome	21
7902763022	Senate	A council of representatives	22
7902764485	Julius Caesar	100-44 B.C. Roman general who became the republic's dictator in 45 B.C.	23
7902765782	Augustus	Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC	24
7902768327	Pax Romana	Roman peace	25
7902769550	Christianity	Official Religion during the declining century of the Roman Empire.	26
7902771126	Diocletian	Roman emperor who divided the empire into a West and an East section.	27
7902772927	Constantine	Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)	28
7902774160	Han dynasty	the dynasty that ruled China from about 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E., the period following the Qin dynasty	29
7902776032	Civil service exam	A test given to qualify candidates for positions in the government	30
7902778054	Byzantine empire	Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half.	31
7902779687	Justinian's code	An organized collection and explanation of roman laws for use by the byzantine empire	32
7902782130	Hagia Sophia	the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian	33
7902783366	Catholic Church	• central to Medieval Europeans' lives • united Western Europe during Middle Ages	34
7902785844	Eastern orthodox church	a Christian church that grew out of Christianity in eastern Europe and present-day Turkey	35
7902787414	Feudalism	A system of government based on landowners and tenants	36
7902789041	Manorialism	Basic economic unit of Middle Ages	37
7902791075	Serfs	A person who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times	38
7902791076	Fiefs	pieces of land given to vassals by their lord	39
7902792486	Crusades	A long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia	40
7902793598	Charlemage	king of holy empire,built churches, brought manuscript from rome.	41
7902797713	Chivalry	Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages	42
7902799251	Holy Roman Empire	the lands ruled by Charlemagne	43
7902800966	Kievan Russia	State established at Kiev in Ukraine	44
7902804061	Mongols	People from Central Asia when united ended up creating the largest single land empire in history.	45
7902804062	vikings	Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia	46
7902805458	Theocracy	A government controlled by religious leaders	47
7902806490	Monarchy	A government ruled by a king or queen	48
7902806491	Oligarchy	A government ruled by a few powerful people	49
7902807960	Democracy	Rule by the people	50
7902807961	Republic	A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting	51
7902815584	Aristocracy	A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility	52
7902816655	Magna carta	1215	53
7902818481	King John of England	disputed with Innocent III over appointment of archbishop	54
7902821045	Tang Dynasty	618-907	55
7902822071	Song Dynasty	the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy	56
7902823613	African salt trade	a trade of salt	57
7902833161	Creator	Xavier Portillo	58