AP World History Flashcards Era 1 Flashcards
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| 6566548938 | Mandate of Heaven | -How emperors are chosen -Natural disaster "Gods are angry" -Gives the people of China a reason to overthrow an unjust dynasty | 0 | |
| 6566548939 | Han Dynasty | -silk road trade -civil service exams (job based off knowledge not wealth or family) | 1 | |
| 6566548940 | The Code of Hammurabi | -1st legal system -Eye for an eye -less punishment for people of a higher status | 2 | |
| 6566548941 | Royal Road | -In Persia -Connect everyone to the capital -Satraps traveled along the road to report to the king | 3 | |
| 6566548942 | Trieme | -Greek/Phoenician ship -Many oars to go to a variety of locations | 4 | |
| 6566548943 | Dhow | -India -Trading ship -No oars because monsoons on Indian Ocean trade routes were very predictable | 5 | |
| 6566548944 | The 12 Tables of Rome | -Dealt with all aspects of life -stricter than Hammurabi -ex 1) Father owned s family -ex 2) Deformed children were killed -ex 3) No freedom of speech | 6 | |
| 6566548945 | Neolithic Revolution | -Start of civilization -8000 BC -People stayed in one place to farm -Started independently over 100s of years -Animals were domesticated -Women had a lower status | 7 | |
| 6566548946 | Spartan Military | -very intense -army trained from a young age -Hoplites- single warriors -Phalanx- group of hoplites | 8 | |
| 6566548947 | Greek commodites | -Grapes to wine -Olives to olive oil | 9 | |
| 6566548948 | Indian commodites | -Spices (pepper, saffron) -cotton | 10 | |
| 6566548949 | Hunter-gatherers | -before the Neolithic Revolution -men hunt -women gather -women gather most of total food | 11 | |
| 6566548950 | Empire | -nation that controls a variety of people -multiethnic | 12 | |
| 6566548951 | Republic | -government of elected officials -similar to representative democracy -ex) Rome as a republic | 13 | |
| 6566548952 | Punic Wars | -Rome fights Carthage -Fought for control of Mediterranean trade -three wars -Hannibal leads army of intoxicated elephants to make them violent -Rome wins and expands their empire | 14 | |
| 6566548953 | Sumerian Inventions | 1. First writing system (cuneiform) 2. Carts and metal plows for farming 3. Number system based of 60 4. The Epic of Gilgamesh 5. Caravan trade | 15 | |
| 6566548954 | 476 | Fall of the western half of Rome | 16 | |
| 6566548955 | Caste System | -Rigid system for class in India -Can't move up or down in social stratification in one lifetime | 17 | |
| 6566548956 | Julius Caesar | -Popularis (helped common people) -Loved by the common people, but hated by the wealthy -Became a dictator -Other senators hated him and stabbed him to death | 18 | |
| 6566548957 | Constantine | -Roman emperor -Made Christianity the official state religion of Rome in 313 CE | 19 | |
| 6566548958 | 0 | Birth of Jesus | 20 | |
| 6566548959 | Reasons for the fall of Rome | -Trade brought epidemics that wiped out 1/4 of the population -Huge demand for food led to overgrazing and soil erosion -Larger area became too hard to defend from invaders | 21 | |
| 6566548960 | 8000 | Neolithic revolution | 22 | |
| 6566548961 | Chinese commodity | -Silk -How to make silk was a secret -Chinese people executed if they told other people how to make silk | 23 | |
| 6566548962 | Theocracy | -Government leader considered to be a God - Ex) Egypt, Sumeria, Mesopotamia | 24 | |
| 6566548963 | Democracy | - Direct democracy- everyone votes - Representative democracy- everyone votes for a representative to vote on issues - Ex) Athens (Archon, council of nobles, citizens assembly) | 25 | |
| 6566548964 | Oligarchy | -Power in the hands of the wealthiest 1% - Ex) Sparta | 26 | |
| 6566548965 | 4 River Valley Civilizations | 1. Egypt- Nile, fertile land 2. Mesopotamia- unpredictable Tigris and Euphrates 3. China- Huang He(yellow river) 4. Indus- Indus River - All Civilizations settled near rivers for fertile land | 27 | |
| 6566548966 | Christianity | - Egalitarian (appeals to poor, sick, and women) - Place for women as nuns - Rejection of Judaism -Everyone is a child of God - Core ideas of peace, love, and kindness | 28 | |
| 6566548967 | Shang Dynasty | -Ask question then read cracks in oracle bones to tell the future - Talk to ancestors - First Chinese Dynasty | 29 | |
| 6566548968 | Zhou | -Strong military - Daoism- nature - Confucianism- relationships/respect - legalism- strict laws | 30 | |
| 6566548969 | Qin Dynastu | -very short - Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi - Great Wall construction began | 31 | |
| 6566548970 | Parthenon | - Temple to Athena - In Athens - Destroyed - Pericles rebuilt in during the Golden Age | 32 | |
| 6566548971 | Ziggurat | - Monument temples - Attract people - High up to be closer to the Gods | 33 | |
| 6566548972 | Nirvana | - Peaceful afterlife - Ends painful cycle of birth and rebirth - from Buddhism | 34 | |
| 6566548973 | Dharma | - Know your place in society and stay there - social class can't change in one life | 35 | |
| 6566548974 | The 4 Nobel Truths | - Life is full of suffering - Suffering comes from desire - Suffering stops when desire stops - In order to stop desire you must follow the eight-fold path - Buddhist | 36 | |
| 6566548975 | The eight-fold path | - meditate, reflect, refrain from earthly pleasures - Detach self from worldly things - Reach enlightenment and nirvana - Buddhist | 37 | |
| 6566583551 | Bering Strait | - Underwater in present day - Connects Alaska to Afro-Eurasia - Used thousands of years ago - allowed people to migrate into the Americas | 38 | |
| 6566583552 | Ashoka | - Mauryan Emperor -Realized the destruction he caused at the battle of Kalinga - Did not invade anywhere else after the battle - Ended slavery in Mauryan Empire - Made Buddhism the official state religion - Empire fell after him because no leader was as powerful | 39 | |
| 6566583553 | 3 Abrahamic Religions | 1. Judaism 2. Christianity 3. Islam | 40 | |
| 6566583554 | Canoe | - Polynesian - used to get to different islands | 41 | |
| 6566583555 | Karma | - Go into life with a good attitude and good things will happen to you because you view the world in a positive light - Go into life with a negative attitude and bad things will happen to you because you view the world in a negative light | 42 |