AP World History Flashcards

4785634535	What does fossil, linguistic, and genetic DNA support?	Homoerectus and homosapiens migrating out of Africa	0
4785658785	What is the first region of the world where there is evidence of permanent agricultural villages?	The eastern Mediterranean	1
4785675181	What caused the Neolithic Revolution?	Small villages surrounded by agricultural villages	2
4785681797	What did the transition from hunting to gathering cause?	patriarchal families	3
4785922051	What did paleolithic hunter-gatherers use fire for?	warmth, hunting, and foraging	4
4787950650	What are some of the main characteristics of the human species?	an opposable thumb on each hand, relatively high and regular sexual drive, omnivores, facial expressions, and a distinctive human brain	5
4787962446	What were the most significant human achievements before the rise of agriculture?	development of speech, beliefs, imporvment in their tools, and the spread of human species throughout the earth.	6
4787997344	What were the patterns of early human migration?	starting from Africa, then migrating to the Mediterranean and Europe, east to Asia, then finally across the seas to the Americas and Oceania.	7
4788066066	homo sapiens sapiens	the most successful human species that emerged at the end of the Paleolithic period	8
4788222120	What are the main differences between an agricultural and a hunting and gathering economy?	agricultural economy allowed people to settle while hunters and gatherers moved around	9
4791486349	How did agriculture encourage technological change?	humans began using metals as tools	10
4792000060	Why are nomadic societies important in world history?	nomadic societies spread important knowledge in travel, religion, domestication, and warfare	11
4795619481	What did hunting and gathering lead to?	agriculture	12
4812957149	Egypt was a polytheistic empire	they believed in many gods	13
4812964639	Egypt built pyramids to	Store the dead bodies of rulers	14
4812972615	The Old age	the building of Egyptian empire (advances in agriculture, metalworking, and transportation)	15
4812972616	Middle Age	expansion and improvment of the Egyptian empire	16
4812973524	New age	the decline of the Egyptian empire	17
4812983152	The Nile River's floods	annually created massive destruction	18
4815128924	Code of Hammurabi	A list of rules written by Hammurabi to regulate his people that came with punishments for harsh crimes	19
4815147785	Egyptian ruling	A pharaoh who is supposably "god on earth" and maintains most of the power	20
4815215756	Mesopotamia	the first civilization built completely from scratch	21
4815223247	Why is Mesopotamia important?	It developed a system of writting called cuneiforn	22
4815267778	Why is Mesopotamian govenment important?	It maintained and expanded agricultural production	23
4815290921	Why was Enema Elisha written?	To assert a special relationship between the city of Babylon and her gods	24
4815299259	What supports the land bridge territory?	Data that shows a close genetic relationship between the Indians and indigenous Siberians	25
4815308377	Where did the Bantu people spread their language?	Other African regions	26
4821115997	Why do we know less about Harappan civilization than about Egypt?	we can't translate their writting system and we don't know what caused their civilization to fall	27
4821131881	Where was Harappa located?	Along the Indus River	28
4821160149	What special features did Harrapan cities have?	A system of running water and drainage systems, and a community bath	29
4821183417	Harappan weapond	bronze tipped arrows	30
4821190912	The fall of Harappa was called	the Vedic and Epic ages	31
4821204534	What did the Aryans encourage?	tight levels of village organization such as village chiefs, defense tribes, and patriarchal control	32
4821234758	Aryan literary epics	were about Aryan gods, mythical battles, and mystical stories	33
4821872832	ideographic symbols	chinese writing that consisted of a combination of knotted ropes and scratches of lines	34
4821890085	How did the Shang impact the develpment of chinese civilization?	silk manufactoring, ancestor worship, important rituals, horseback riding	35
4821912404	What caused the collapse of early chinese civilization?	the Zhou dynasty's inability to handle disorder	36
4821930290	Civilization in the Americas was different compared to the previous ones because	they had little animals to use for domestication, travel was difficult, no metals were available for tools	37
4821951605	Olmecs established the first civilization in the Americas	featured irrigation agriculture, urbanism, elaborate religion, beginnings of calendrical and writing systems	38
4821966881	Judiasm	a monotheistic religion that stressed God's focus on humankind, and injunctions for ethical behavior among people in obedience to divine commandments	39
4826076184	River Valley civilizations flourished because	they had access to water for agriculture and trade	40
4826081578	China became popular because	they had silk that everyone wanted	41
4826086463	China broke into eight city-states during the Zhou dynasty	This created problems when the Mongols came because united they stand, divided they fall	42
4826104451	Three early dynasties of China	Xia (rice and silk), Shang (oracle bones), Zhou (Mandate to Heaven)	43
4826124082	Confucius was a man of the Zhou dynasty that	created Confucianism (a philosophy that basically teaches you to live your life for yourself with morals and virtues instead of for the gods) that was used during the Zhou dynasty	44
4837807931	River Valley	Mesopotamia, Egyptian, Harappan, and Ancient China	45
4851290691	Renaissance		46
4851300357	Classics		47
4851300358	Dark Ages		48
4851302168	Industrialization		49
4851304236	World Wars		50
4851344889	The Mesopotamian government	maintained and expanded agricultural production.	51
4851349495	Assyrian forced other weaker nations	to pay tribute to them.	52
4851354255	The emergence of social Mesopotamian hierarchies	supported the unequal distribution of surplus food.	53
4851359973	Assyrian military conquests	caused Jewish diasporic communities.	54
4851366409	Landholding aristocracies tend to be	the dominant class of most societies.	55
4851375699	Early civilization shared	urban centers, growing populations, and writing centers.	56
4851385524	Myths provide insights about	the cultures and traditions of their societies.	57
4851393763	The expansion of communication and trade in Afro-Eurasia	resulted in scientific exchange (decimal and concept of zero)	58
4851414790	Confucian social hierarchy	privileged government officials in China	59
4851435547	Confucian social order taught	loyalty to the ruler, filial obedience to one's father, and respect for the old	60
4851455061	Confucianism taught	the virtue and duties of family members	61
4851463396	Confucianism focused on social cohesion	but Daoism centered on human connection to nature.	62
4851472401	The Code of Hammurabi (Babylon)	was the first written law	63
4851479806	The Greek physician Hippocrates looked more to medical causes and cures rather than	supernatural causes and cures	64
4851487238	Greek dramas were influenced by	religious and moral values	65
4851492629	Christianity and Islam are both	monotheistic	66
4851496532	Judaism and Hinduism both had	written scriptures and an ethical code to live by	67
4851502778	The Vedic regions of Hinduism	practiced the caste system	68
4851508742	Hinduism taught a cyclical nature of	death and rebirth	69
4851512312	Buddhism became more popular than Hinduism because	there was no caste system	70
4851529577	Rome was depopulated by	Germanic and Central Asian peoples	71
4851540587	As Rome migrated east to the Byzantine Empire	Western peasants binded into feudal societies.	72
4884121698	During the Mesoamerican culture of 400 BCE-800 CE,	monumental structure were built for religious rituals.	73
4884126831	A Buddhism statue in India is an example of	cross-cultural interaction.	74
4884132873	Romans and Myans both used religious practices	in order to legitimatize their authority.	75
4884147048	The Chinese emperor Xunxi	relected the principle of Confucianism.	76
4884159599	The Chinese empire of Xunzi (Confucianism)	differed from the Hindu society of the Gupta Empire.	77
4884164225	The Chinese Emperor Xunzi recruited bureaucrats	on the basis of education rather than noble birth.	78
4884169972	The Qin China and Maryann India dynasties	implemented a centralized bureaucracy.	79
4884174775	The reliance on a merit-based bureaucracy	resulted into eh centralization of the Han Dynasty in China.	80
4884180041	The Han and Roman empires exchanged goods	via the Silk Road	81