AP World History Chapter 3 Flashcards
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| 7130366324 | Royal Road | spanned 1,500 miles across the Persian empire, most famous of the network of roads built to encourage trade |  | 0 |
| 7130366325 | Socratic Method | form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions |  | 1 |
| 7130366988 | Golden Mean | the ideal moderate position between two extremes |  | 2 |
| 7130366989 | empiricism | trusting what one learned from observation and evidence of the senses. |  | 3 |
| 7130367329 | syncretic | combining ideas from different sources |  | 4 |
| 7130368943 | Zoroastrianism | this faith was based on belief in only one god, Ahura Mazda aka the wise lord |  | 5 |
| 7130368944 | qanat | a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below. |  | 6 |
| 7130368945 | monarchies | a king ruled the state |  | 7 |
| 7130369336 | aristocracy | nobles rule |  | 8 |
| 7130369337 | oligarchy | a few wealthy landowners and merchants ruled |  | 9 |
| 7130369797 | tyrants | leaders who seized power with the people's support. |  | 10 |
| 7130370006 | democracy | all citizens participate |  | 11 |
| 7130370636 | direct democracy | a form of democracy in which people decide policy initiatives directly. |  | 12 |
| 7130370898 | representative democracy | citizens elect leaders to represent them and give those leaders powers to make laws and govern. |  | 13 |
| 7130370899 | Persian Wars | The wars fought between Greece and Persia in the 5th century BC, in which the Persians sought to extend their territory over the Greek world |  | 14 |
| 7130371131 | Hellenistic Period | greek period |  | 15 |
| 7130371132 | hoplites | infantry members |  | 16 |
| 7130371133 | archons | a council of nobles |  | 17 |
| 7130371488 | helots | a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens. |  | 18 |
| 7130371489 | satraps | a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire. |  | 19 |
| 7130371490 | aristocrats | a member of the aristocracy |  | 20 |
| 7130371824 | merchants | a person or company involved in wholesale trade |  | 21 |
| 7130371825 | caravanserai | combination inns and markets for people traveling the Royal Road by camel caravan |  | 22 |
| 7130375940 | Common currency | made trade easier thereby uniting the empire and promoting prosperity. |  | 23 |