AP World HIstory Flashcards
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6814832462 | Capitalism | Banks, stock exchanges, investment companies | 0 | |
6814837574 | Chavin | The first major urban civilization in South American | 1 | |
6814850233 | Otto Von Bismarck | Chancellor of Prussia and then Chancellor of Germany | 2 | |
6814855974 | Cortes, Hernan | Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico | 3 | |
6814860265 | Creoles | In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. | 4 | |
6814866829 | dhow | Ship of small to moderate size used in the western Indian Ocean | 5 | |
6814869146 | Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean | 6 | |
6814881773 | Enlightenment | A philosophical movement in 18th century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior. | 7 | |
6814900733 | Global Culture | Practices and institutions that have been adopted internationally whether elite, or popular. | 8 | |
6814906100 | Gujarat | REgion of western India famous for trade and manufacturing | 9 | |
6814919289 | Harappa | One of the great cities of the Indus valley civilization | 10 | |
6814939236 | Il-Khan | A "secondary" or "peripheral" khan based in Persia | 11 | |
6814943076 | Jacobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution | 12 | |
6814947684 | Kievan Russia | State established by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population | 13 | |
6814971730 | Mao Zedong | Leader of the Chinese communist party | 14 | |
6814975724 | Meiji Restoration | Political program that followed the destruction of teh Tokugawa Shogunate | 15 | |
6814979061 | Minoan | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete | 16 |