AP World History #23 Flashcards
Terms : Hide Images [1]
| 7797706951 | When did long distance trade noticeably increase? | during the Hellenistic Era | 0 | |
| 7797761132 | What happened after mariners from Ptolemaic Egypt learned how to sail during monsoons safely? | regular links were established between different civilizations | 1 | |
| 7797783522 | What did long distance trade lead to? | economic development within the Hellenistic realms | 2 | |
| 7797828953 | What was the principle trade center on the east African coast? | Rhapta | 3 | |
| 7797846912 | What goods did merchants of Rhapta import? | iron goods, such as spears, axes, and knives | 4 | |
| 7797871612 | What are the trade routes that linked Eurasia to north Africa? | the Silk Roads | 5 | |
| 7797909310 | How far did the Silk Road go west? | from Chang'an to the Taklamakan desert | 6 | |
| 7797924857 | What is one interpretation of the meaning of Taklamakan? | he who enters does not come back out | 7 | |
| 7798021105 | What were spices used as? | flavoring agents, drugs, anesthetics, perfumes, and magical positions | 8 | |
| 7798056629 | Who was partially responsible for the spread of Buddhism to Bactria and Ceylon? | Ashoka | 9 | |
| 7798532605 | Who were the earliest Buddhists in China? | foreign merchants who practiced their religion in the enclaves | 10 | |
| 7798553729 | What did the rulers of southeast Asian states call themselves? | rajas | 11 | |
| 7798575197 | Who were the Nestorians? | followers of Nestorius | 12 | |
| 7798593657 | What did the spread of Manichaeism show? | how missionary religions made use of the silk roads | 13 | |
| 7798618449 | Who began Manichaeism? | Mani | 14 | |
| 7798629697 | Why did Mani's doctrine have a strong appeal? | it offered a rational explanation for the presence of good and evil | 15 | |
| 7798645351 | Why did Manichaeism decline? | Zoroastrian leaders told the Sasanid rulers to suppress Mani's movement | 16 | |
| 7798679348 | What were the most destructive of the epidemic diseases? | smallpox and measles | 17 | |
| 7798703400 | What was the effect of the diseases? | trade declined and more states were self-sufficient | 18 | |
| 7798739888 | Who reported that over 120 ships annually departed from the Red Sea for India? | Strabo | 19 | |
| 7798742408 | Who was Strabo? | a Greek geographer | 20 | |
| 7798754183 | Which regions of the mare nostrum did the Romans dominate? | eastern and western | 21 |