AP World History Semester 1 Flashcards

9794271299	Mesopotamia	1st civilization/Tigris + Euphrates/ Sumerians	0
9794271300	Hammurabis Code	the first known written laws/babylon	1
9794271301	Fertile Crescent	Mesopotamia	2
9794271302	Cuniform	Sumerian writing/1st type of writing	3
9794271303	Hanging Gardens	Babylonian builidings	4
9794271304	Ziggurat	A pyramid shaped temple tower	5
9794271305	Deity	A god	6
9794271306	Polytheism vs. Monotheism	many gods vs. one God	7
9794271307	monarchy	rule by a single person/king+queen	8
9794271308	Pharaohs	Egyptian god-kings	9
9794271309	Pyramids	Tombs for the pharaohs	10
9794271310	"Gift of the Nile"	Egypt	11
9794271311	papyrus	Egyptian paper	12
9794271312	Heiroglyphics	Egyptian writing	13
9794271313	dynasty	a series of rulers from the same family	14
9794271314	Dynastic Cycle	The rise and fall of dynasties	15
9794271315	frontier	the border of what is known	16
9794271316	Foot binding	china/women	17
9794271317	Great Wall of China	kept mongols out of china	18
9794271318	serculture	silk production/china	19
9794271319	Ancestor Veneration	Worship and respect for ancestors	20
9794271320	filial piety	respect for parents	21
9794271321	Civil Service Exams	sui and qing dynasties/confusian	22
9794271322	Buddhism	spread on silk road/indian ocean eightfold path wheel of law	23
9794271323	Silk Road	Trade route stretching from China into Europe.	24
9794271324	Madate of Heaven	rulers can be replaced with sign from gods	25
9794271325	Indus River	indus/india	26
9794271326	well planned cities	indus	27
9794271327	plumbing system	indus	28
9794271328	street grids	indus	29
9794271329	Hinduism	india/oldest religion/reincarnation/poly	30
9794271330	vedas	hindu holy book	31
9794271331	karma	destiny or fate	32
9794271332	Dharma (Buddhism)	order to the universe	33
9794271333	Neolithic Revolution	farming-cities/specialized labor	34
9794271334	domestication	raising plants/animals	35
9794271335	agriculture	farming	36
9794271336	irrigation system	water to crops	37
9794271337	monogamy	marriage to a single mate	38
9794271338	Patriarchy	Male dominated society	39
9794271339	syncretism	A blending of two or more religious traditions	40
9794271340	Animism	objects/places/things have a soul	41
9794271341	pastoralism	a strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals	42
9794271342	characteristics of civilization	complex institutions, record keeping, advanced technology, advanced cities, specialized workers(A SCAR)	43
9794271343	Sparta vs. Athens	sparta=military/athens=brains	44
9794271344	philosophy	athens/greece	45
9794271345	Direct Democracy	people power (Athens/greece)	46
9794271346	architecture	greece=white building w/ colums	47
9794271347	city states	greece	48
9794271348	hellenism	mix of greek+asian/ Alexander The Great	49
9794271106	Representative Democracy	rome (3r's)	50
9794271107	Caste System	society grouped by status(india)	51
9794271108	Rule of Law	No one is above the law	52
9794271109	Twelve Tables	Rome's first code of laws	53
9794271110	Roman Roads	connected empire and spread christianity	54
9794271111	arenas/dome/arches	rome	55
9794271112	Fall of Rome	barbarians. too big. political corruption. disease.	56
9794271113	Diasporas	Jews living outside Israel.	57
9794271114	Constantine	First Christian emperor of rome	58
9794271115	Empires	one leader expands	59
9794271116	medieval/dark ages/middle ages/feudal	bad time in europe	60
9794271117	church power/pope	medieval/more powerful than king	61
9794271118	Monasteries	Communities of monks	62
9794271119	Vikings	Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia	63
9794271120	Mongols	Genghis Khan and largest land empire	64
9794271121	Khan	A Mongol ruler	65
9794271122	Kow Tow	a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission	66
9794271123	Tributary System	An arrangement in which other states had to pay money or provide goods to honor the Chinese emperor	67
9794271124	Monsoon	Seasonal winds	68
9794271125	Fuedalism	medieval political system	69
9794271126	manoralism	medieval economic system	70
9794271127	feifs	land owned by feudal lord	71
9794271128	Medieval Art	dark+religious	72
9794271129	Chilvary	code of conduct for knights	73
9794271130	Bushido	Japanese code of honor	74
9794271131	Vassals	Lesser lords	75
9794271132	guilds	powerful medieval craftsmen assosistion	76
9794271133	Hanseatic League	a group of Northern German cities and towns that worked together to promote and protect trade	77
9794271134	gentry	elite wealthy individuals	78
9794271135	Crusades	A long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia	79
9794271136	Black Plague	disease	80
9794271137	Martin Luther	began the Protestant Reformation	81
9794271138	Reformation	new churches	82
9794271139	Byzantine	East Roman empire, continued after West fell	83
9794271140	orthodox	Byzantine Christianity	84
9794271141	Dar al islam	House of islam	85
9794271142	hajj	pilgrimage to Mecca	86
9794271143	ulamas+sufists	types of muslim scholars	87
9794271144	Shariah	Islamic law	88
9794271145	shia vs sunni	two branches of islam	89
9794271146	Sultan	Muslim ruler	90
9794271147	swahili	African bantu launguage	91
9794271148	African element that made them rich	gold (au)	92
9794271149	essential african trade item	salt	93
9794271150	religion that moved to africa via trade	islam	94
9794271151	griots	a west African storyteller	95
9794271152	Entrepot	trading port	96
9794271153	Tang Dynasty	porcelain and printing	97
9794271154	Song Dynasty	rockets and fireworks	98
9794271155	Single point perspective	renassance art focused on a single point	99
9794271261	Indivualism	focus on individual not God	100
9794271262	Humanism	Focus on human potential and achievements	101
9794271263	secular	nonreligious	102
9794271264	Venice	cross road between europe and asia	103
9794271265	church paid artists	renaissance	104
9794271266	Protestant Reformation	new church movement	105
9794271267	95 Theses	Martin Luther	106
9794271268	Indulgence	Ticket to heaven	107
9794271269	Gutenberg	Printing press	108
9794271270	Counter Reformation	Catholic church fought back	109
9794271271	360 day calendar	mayans	110
9794271272	disappearance	mayans	111
9794271273	cortez	conquered the aztecs	112
9794271274	conquered	aztecs and incas	113
9794271275	Chinampas	floating gardens	114
9794271276	small pox	Infectious disease brought to America by the Spanish that devastated native populations.	115
9794271277	Machu Picchu	Inca city found high up in the mountains	116
9794271278	Quipus	A system of record keeping with string	117
9794271279	mit a	mandatory public service in inca empire	118
9794271280	Andes Mountains	Inca	119
9794271281	God/Gold/Glory	three reasons that motivated europe to seek new trade routes to asia	120
9794271282	navigational technology	facilitate exploration	121
9794271283	marco polo	italian explorer to asia	122
9794271284	zheng he	chinese muslim explorer	123
9794271285	Christopher Columbus	Discovered America	124
9794271286	Vasco de Gama	First European to reach India by sea	125
9794271287	Hernan Cortes	Conquered the Aztecs	126
9794271288	Fransisco Pizarro	conquered the Incas	127
9794271289	Ferdinand Magellan	First to circumnavigate the globe	128
9794271290	Colombian Exchange	trade of goods and ideas between Europe and the new world colonies.	129
9794271291	slave trade triangle	europe to africa to americas	130
9794271292	Middle Passage	the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America	131
9794271293	Great Schism	the official split between the Roman Catholic and Byzantine church	132
9794271294	Caliphate	Muslim empire	133
9794271295	Motivation for exploration	find new route to asia 4 spices	134