AP WORLD HISTORY Flashcards

10132786134	Egalitarian	believing in the social and economic equality of all people	0
10132789786	Catal Huyuk	one of the largest neolithic villages ever discovered	1
10132789787	sedentary	not migratory; settled	2
10132792506	Agricultural Revolution	a period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants	3
10132792507	subsistence	farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced	4
10132795079	sustenance	the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence	5
10132795080	Leakeys	Discovered hominids first in east Africa.	6
10132795081	Lucy	the first human who left remains of her bones; she lived around 3.5 million years ago.	7
10132797016	Sargon of Akkad		8
10132797017	codified	written definitions of crimes and punishment enacted by legislatures and published	9
10132798955	theocracy	A government controlled by religious leaders	10
10132798956	arable	fit for growing crops	11
10132799925	covenant	a binding agreement	12
10132801070	Aryan	A member of the Indo-European people who crossed into India around 1500 BC	13
10132801071	Rig Vedas	Indo-Aryan work 1400-900BCE with 1028 hymns tot he gods.	14
10132805642	Sumer	The world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which existed for over 3,000 years.	15
10132806764	Mandate of Heaven	in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority	16
10132807918	Hittites	an Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia around 2000 B.C.	17
10132810070	Phoenecians	lived on Mediterranean Sea; built ships; great sailors/traders; 22 letter alphabet	18
10132810071	ideology	a system of social or political ideas	19
10132811361	Cyrus the Great	king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire (circa 600-529 BC)	20
10132820158	Sasanids	The Persian Dynasty that overthrew and succeeded the Parthians	21
10132820159	Qanat	an underground canal first built by the ancient Persians	22
10132821883	Parthians	Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.	23
10132821884	satraps	Persian administrators, usually members of the royal family, who governed a satrapy.	24
10132824050	Shi Huangdi	founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor	25
10132824741	Pax Sinica	Chinese peace; under the Han Dynasty, China experienced 400 years of prosperity and stability	26
10132825840	Han Fei Zu		27
10132825841	Laozi	A legendary Chinese philosopher of the sixth century B.C.E.; regarded as the founder of Daoism.	28
10132825842	Wudi	Chinese emperor who brought the Han dynasty to its greatest strength	29
10132826795	Xiongnu	Nomads who lived in the Gobi Desert; invaded China; Wall of China was constructed to keep them out	30
10132827855	Five Basic Relationships	Friend and friend, parent and child, husband and wife, elder and young brother, ruler and subject.	31
10132827856	Quechua	Incan language	32
10132828705	Cuzco	The capital city of the Incan Empire, Located in present-day Peru	33
10132828706	mita	a labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work	34
10132828707	quipu	An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information.	35
10132829833	chinampas	floating farming islands made by the Aztec	36
10132829834	Popul Vuh	Mayan creation epic	37
10132834451	Battle of Manzikert	Celtic Turks defeated the Byzantines, the Byzantine Empire was lost	38
10132837173	iconoclasts	people who opposed the use of icons in worship, Byzantines	39
10132838698	Shi'ite	The branch of Islam that holds that the leader of Islam must be a descendant of Muhammad's family	40
10132838699	Sunni	a branch of Islam that regards the first four successors of Muhammad as his rightful successors	41
10132839852	Sharia	the code of law derived from the Quran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed	42
10132839858	People of the Book	what Muslims called Christians and Jews which means that they too only believe in one god	43
10132841636	hajj	A pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims	44
10132841637	Caliph	A supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government	45
10132843656	Five Pillars	beliefs that all Muslims needed to carry out: Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, and Pilgrimage	46
10132843657	Ka'aba	city containing a shrine to which religious pilgrims came	47
10132855031	Neoconfucianism	In postclassical China, a mixture of traditional Confucian and Buddhist beliefs.	48
10132855837	scholar gentry	A Chinese social class of learned officeholders and landowners that arose in the Han dynasty.	49
10132856738	hegemony	the domination of one state or group over its allies	50
10132858274	Pax Mongolica	The period of approximately 150 years of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire.	51
10132858277	Kublai Khan	(1215-1294) Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China.	52
10132860822	Khanates	Areas of Mongol Empire ruled by different Khans (rulers) after Genghis Khan's death.	53
10132861554	Golden Horde	Mongol armies who ruled much of medieval Russia	54
10132876887	primogeniture	right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son	55
10132876888	fief	land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service	56
10132877990	Holy Roman Empire	the lands ruled by Charlemagne, Germany	57
10132879586	Charlemagne	king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor	58
10132880669	manorialsim		59
10132883553	lay invesititure		60
10132884483	vassal	A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land	61
10132886926	Justinian's Code	a law code published by the Byzantine emperor Justinian	62
10132887711	Timbuktu	Niger River port city of Mali; had a famous Muslim university.	63