Ap world history vocab review Flashcards

9637359211	Cuneiform	First known human writing	0
9637370755	Mesopotamia	First human civilization	1
9637385956	Socrates	Principle of rational inquiry by means of skeptical questioning	2
9637393774	Effervescence	Vivacity and enthusiasm	3
9637397097	Millennium	A period of a thousand years	4
9637407466	Kautayala	Book on how to govern a government(India)	5
9637416004	Legalism	Strict, literal, or excessive conformity to the law, to a religious or moral code	6
9637420426	Daoism	Belief in Chinese traditions of nature's harmony and nature's mystery	7
9637441739	Ren	Humanity	8
9637441740	Li	Respect for others	9
9637444265	Filial Piety	Reverence to Family	10
9637451762	Chang'an	The capital of the Han empire	11
9637462744	Abu Bakar	First caliph	12
9637466852	Muhammad	Founder of Islam	13
9637470123	Baghdad	Capital of Abbasid Empire	14
9637472470	Wazir	Chief administrative official under the Abbasid caliphate	15
9637480322	Ayan	The wealthy landed elite that emerged in the early decades of the Abbasid rule	16
9637494237	Constantinople	Capital of the Byzantine empire	17
9637501871	Belisarius	One of the Justinians most important military commanders during period of reconquest of Western Europe	18
9637508102	Greek Fire	Weapon consisting of a mixture of chemicals that ignited when exposed to water;used to drive back Arab fleet attacks	19
9637519869	Icon	Is an artistic representation, usually of a religious figure	20
9637523654	The Schism	Disagreement led to the formal split of the church into the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy	21
9637542021	Serfs	Peasant agricultural laborers within the manorial system of the Middle Ages	22
9637549897	Moldboard	Healthy plow introduced in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages	23
9637554439	Three-Field System	System of agricultural cultivation by the 9th century in Western Europe	24
9637562386	Aristocrats	Powerful independent voice	25
9637564646	Clovis	Early Frankish King; converted Franks after 8th century to Christianity c.496	26
9637574594	Middle Ages	Medieval ; the period in Western European history from the decline and fall of the Roman Empire until the 15th century	27
9637581696	Manorialism	Economic/political relation between lord and peasants	28
9637603235	Vikings	Seagoing Scandinavian raiders from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway who disrupted coastal areas of Western Europe from the 8th to 11th centuries	29
9637624157	House of lords	Nobles	30
9637624158	House of commons	Wealthy businessmen	31
9637632290	Magna Carta	Great charter the Nobles forced King John in 1215 to sign rights	32
9637655995	Parliaments	Bodies representing privileged groups	33
9637663901	Three estates	The 3 social groups considered most powerful in Western countries: Church, nobles and urban leaders	34
9637675825	Hundred Years War	Conflict between England and France from 1337-1453; fought over lands England possessed in France and feudal rights versus the emerging claims of national states.	35
9637687358	Pope Urban II	Called first crusade in 1095; appealed to Christians to mount military assault to free the Holy land from the Muslims.	36
9637700451	Gregory VII	Pope during the 11th century who attempted to free church from interference of feudal lords	37
9637707733	Investuture	Practice of state appointment of bishops	38
9637717423	Thomas Aquinas	Creator of one the great syntheses of medieval learning taught at the University of Paris; believed faith came first	39
9637735728	Scholasticism	Dominant medieval philosophical approach	40
9637740502	Gothic	An architectural style developed during the Middle Ages in Western Europe	41
9637753895	Vernaculars	Literature in the spoken languages of Western Europe	42
9637762142	Hanseatic League	An organization of cities in Northern Germany and Southern Scandinavia for the purpose of establishing a commercial alliance	43
9637770218	Guilds	Sworn associations of people in the same business or craft in a single city	44
9637777560	Torah	Jewish Bible	45
9637782831	Yangdi	2nd member of Sui dynasty; restored Confucian examination system	46
9637791146	Li Yuan	First employer of the Tang Dynasty; minister for Yangdi	47
9637801978	Ministry of Rites	Administered examinations to students from Chinese governments schools or those recommended by distinguished scholars	48
9637819715	Jinshi	Title granted to students who passed the most difficult Chinese examinations on all Chinese literature	49
9637825390	Pure land Buddhism	Emphasized Salvationist aspects of Chinese Buddhism	50
9637830079	Chan Buddhism	Known as Zen in Japan; stressed meditation and appreciation of natural and artistic beauty	51
9637835813	Zen Buddhism	Known as Chan Buddhism	52
9637839380	Emperess Wu	Tang ruler(690-705CE) in China	53
9637847252	Emperor Wuzong	Chinese emperor of Tang Dynasty who openly persecuted Buddhism by destroying monasteries in 840s	54
9637861361	Zhao Kuangyin	Founder of the Song Dynasty	55
9637864048	Liao Dynasty	Founded in 907 by nomadic Khitan people's from manchuria	56
9637869156	Khitong	Nomadic people's of Manchuria	57
9637873413	Zhu Xi	Most prominent of neo-Confucian scholars during the Song Dynasty in China(1130-1200)	58
9637883267	Neo Confucians	Revived ancient Confucian teachings	59
9637887819	Tangut	Rulers of Xi Xia kingdom of NW China ; conquered by Mongols in 1226	60
9637898870	Xi Xia	Kingdom of Tangut people ; collected tribute that drained Song resources and burdened Chinese peasentry	61
9637907777	Wang Anshi	Confucian scholar and chief minister of a Song emperor in the 1070s	62
9637919389	Jurchens	Founder of the Qin Kingdom that succceded the Liao in N China	63
9637925518	Jin	Kingdom north of the Song empire	64
9637927918	Southern Song	Rump state of Song Dynasty from 1127-1279	65
9637939425	Grand canal	7th century under the Sui empire; built to link north China plain with the Yangtze River basin to the south	66
9637952288	Chinese junks	Chinese ships equipped with watertight bulkheads, sternpost rudders, compasses, and bamboo fenders	67
9637964734	Flying money	Chinese credit instrument that provided credit vouchers to merchants to be redeemed at the end of the voyage	68
9637974435	Footbinding	Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller	69
9637983869	Li Bo	Blended images of the mudane world with philosophical musings	70
9637999267	Taika Reforms	In japan, copying of Chinese administration	71
9638005788	Gempei Wars	Peasants vs Samurai	72
9638009860	Bushi	Warrior leaders	73
9638025887	Khagan	Title of the supreme ruler of Mongol tribes	74
9638039330	Tumens	Basic fighting units of the Mongol forces; 1000 men	75
9638047876	Batu	Ruler of the "Golden Horde"	76
9638063060	Khanates	4 regional mongol kingdoms that arose	77
9638069483	Mattel of Kulikova	Russian army victory over the forces of the Golden Horde	78
9638073746	Baibars	Commander of Mamluk forces of Ain Jalut in 1260	79
9638101539	Stateless societies	African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority associated with states	80
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9638120571	Muhammad the Great	Extended the boundaries of the Songhay empire; Islamic ruler of the mid 16th century	82
9638135887	Hausa	Formed states following the demise of songhay empire that combined Muslim and pagan traditions	83
9638154202	Sundiata	The "Lion Prince" created unified Mali	84
9638163627	Timbuktu	Port city of Mali	85
9638173966	Indian	Misnomer created by colombus referring to the indigenous peoples of the New world	86
9638181642	Toltec culture	Succeeded Teotihuacan culture in central Mexico	87
9638190370	Tenochtitlan	Founded about 1325; became center of Aztec Power	88
9638207083	Chinampas	Beds of aquatic weeds, mud, earth placed in frames of cane and rooted in lakes to create "floating islands"	89
9638216197	Pochteca	Special merchant class(Aztecs)	90
9638237677	Mita	Land extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion	91
9638246371	Humanism	An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements	92
9638251931	Leonardo da Vinci	A painter, sculptor, inventor, and scientist made him a true "Renaissance Man"	93
9638269141	Albrecht Dürer	Realism artist	94
9638273169	Johann Gutenburg	Developed new printing press; printed the gutenburg bible	95
9638276214	William Shakespeare	Renaissance play writer; wrote Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, etc	96
9638286200	Petrarch	Wrote poems	97
9638300474	Martin Luther	Became a Christian monk of the Univeristy of Wittenberg in the German state of saxony	98
9638307662	Indulgence	A pardon	99
9638310574	Reformation	A movement for religious reform led to the founding of Christian churches that did no accept the popes authority	100
9638324684	Protestant	Christians who belonged to non-catholic churches	101
9638328250	Peace of Augsburg	Agreement that each ruler would decide the religion of his state was agreed on	102
9638347534	Predestination	Said that GOD has known from the beginning who would be saved (Calvinism beliefs)	103