AP World History Key Concepts Flashcards

13712514134	Key concept 1	Vedic traditions were codified into patterns of rituals and sacrifices in South America	0
13712519451	Key concept 1	Olmecs and Chavin civilizations thrive	1
13712557828	Key concept 1	Zoroastrianism and Hebrew Monotheism form	2
13713701846	Key concept 1	Pastoralism and agriculture emerge and increase human populations	3
13713708638	Key concept 1	Production of pottery, textiles, and metallurgy skills first appear	4
13713728408	Key concept 1	The development of systems of writing lead to literary traditions such as the Rig Veta and Homer's Epics	5
13713777788	Key concept 1	Civilizations emerge mainly in river valleys	6
13713790761	Key concept 1	Surpluses of food first lead to stratified, patriarchal societies	7
13713802590	Key concept 2	Persian empires create highly centralized empires with the king as a deity	8
13713818460	Key concept 2	Migrating Huns add to the decline of empires in South Asia, East Asia, and Europe	9
13713832197	Key concept 2	Hellenism spreads to Central Asia and forms syncretic cultures there	10
13713846949	Key concept 2	Migrations into South Asia spread religious ideas and rituals associated with Vedic poetry and song	11
13713856914	Key concept 2	The cities of Persepolis, Carthage, Rome, Chang'an, and Teotihuacan serve as major centers of trade and political administration	12
13713872291	Key concept 2	Confucianism is adopted as the official state ideology for entry into China's bureaucracy	13
13713892768	Key concept 2	Buddhism spreads into Central and Southeast Asia due to government edicts, missionaries, and relics	14
13713902055	Key concept 2	Greek colonies facilitate an exchange of commerce and culture in the Mediterranean	15
13713916232	Key concept 2	The Eurasian Silk Roads are the dominant trade system in the world	16
13713926620	Key concept 2	Nestorian Christianity spreads to China and Mahayana Buddhism spreads across Eurasian trade routes. Both experience cultural syncretism.	17
13713958205	Key concept 2	The first centralized government rises in China	18
13713970412	Key concept 2	Daoism influences Chinese culture in the areas of architecture, poetry, and medical practices	19
13713987848	Key concept 2	Mauryans develop a centralized state in South Asia; the Gupta create advanced numbering systems and mathemathics	20
13714009062	Key concept 2	Christianity and Buddhism are codified in core civilization while shamanism and animism continue to thrive outside of them	21
13714022957	Key concept 3	The Chinese invade Vietnam, discover quick-ripening champa rice, and experience a population increase	22
13726930512	Key concept 3	Islamic Caliphates first rise	23
13726939142	Key concept 3	Using their longboats, the Vikings raid western Europeans who develop local institutions for security	24
13726947213	Key concept 3	Chinese and Roman civilizations each combined innovations with their own proven traditions to make more enduring political systems	25
13726965029	Key concept 3	Eurasian nomads create the largest continuous empire in history. Silk Road trade is revitalized	26
13726983125	Key concept 3	As women gain some economic rights in European guilds, the yoke of patriarchy becomes more intense in China.	27
13726992597	Key concept 3	Major trade cities include Novgorod, Timbuktu, Malacca, and Kilwa	28
13727005055	Key concept 3	Eurasian land trade routes continue but are surpassed in volume by maritime routes in the Indian Ocean	29
13727017587	Key concept 3	The Grand Canal, a major state funded project to stimulate the economy, is created by the Sui Dynasty in China	30
13727031993	Key concept 3	After the Battle of Talas, paper technology spreads from the Chinese to Muslims	31
13727037940	Key concept 3	After Mohammad's visions, Islam unifies Arab people and creates a durable monotheistic civilization.	32
13727052736	Key concept 3	Arabic numerals and Greek scholarship pass to Europe after Christian military campaigns to take Jerusalem from Muslims	33
13727067705	Key concept 3	On the Lake Texcoco, the Aztecs build a decentralized state based on the collection of tribute and an agricultural system situation on raised islands called chinampas	34
13727086660	Key concept 3	Invasions, disease, and a "Little Ice Age" decimate Eurasian urban centers, which later recover after improvements in transportation, rising commerce, and the end of invasions	35
13727107706	Key concept 3	China and the Byzantine Empire experience significant revolts of free peasants	36
13727196034	Key concept 3	Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta travel and interpret the world through their cultural lenses	37
13727244587	Key concept 3	Buddhists and Daoist ideas blend with Confucianism to form Neo-Confucianism, the new state ideology in China	38
13727270311	Key concept 3	A collection of city-states along the east coast of Africa reach their peak in Indian Ocean trade	39
13727286820	Key concept 3	Trade is facilitated by paper currency in Asia, and bills of exchange and credit in the Dar al Islam	40
13727302759	Key concept 3	Polynesians, Arabs, and Bantu people migrate, spreading their languages and foods	41
13727427857	Key concept 4	European Christianity forms syncretic religions with indigenous Latin American and Caribbean faiths	42
13727440978	Key concept 4	An exchange of crops, culture, animals, and disease pathogens begins between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas	43
13727454958	Key concept 4	Portugal creates a trading post empire in the India Ocean	44
13727464131	Key concept 4	New radical classifications, such as mestizo, mulatto, and creole, emerge in colonial Latin America	45
13727475589	Key concept 4	The Spanish, Dutch, French, and British establish sea-based empires in the Atlantic and Indian oceans	46
13727485946	Key concept 4	Networks of communication and exchange become truly global	47
13727506939	Key concept 4	In several major civilizations, there are changes in the power of elites who serve as intermediaries between the ruler and the ruled	48
13727522603	Key concept 4	European merchants in Southeast Asia must depend upon Asian women to gain access to trade	49
13727524962	Key concept 4	An influx of American silver funds monumental architecture in Mughal India, such as the Taj Mahal	50
13727566506	Key concept 4	China experiences a population surge due to the transplanting of American crops and the global flow of American silver	51
13727586859	Key concept 4	Europeans learn the astrolabe from Muslims, develop the caravel, and navigate around the southern tip of Africa	52
13727597510	Key concept 4	Colonial economies in the Americas depend on a wide range of coerced labor	53
13739847858	Key concept 4	Rather than a unified Dar al Islam, Muslim culture is characterized by several empires characterized by several empires strengthened by their use of firearms	54
13727606835	Key concept 4	The Manchus overthrow the Ming and establish the Qing dynasty in China	55
13727612924	Key concept 4	The Ottoman army, based on conscripted janissaries, clash with their Shia Safavid neighbors	56
13727629399	Key concept 4	The new Russian Empire encourages peasant settlement into its eastern regions	57
13739623587	Key concept 5	The Russian Empire emancipates serfs in order to create a new labor force	58
13739630232	Key concept 5	A slave revolt in the Caribbean creates a free black republic	59
13739647177	Key concept 5	A substantial number of Asians migrates to the Americas for agricultural labor	60
13739650212	Key concept 5	The Tanzimat Reform in the Ottoman Empire provokes conservatives by its attempt to secularize education and define society as a collection of individuals equal before the law.	61
13739658326	Key concept 5	Migration leads to cultural enclaves in major urban areas. They often experience legal discrimination	62
13739663133	Key concept 5	A second wave of imperialism pushes Europeans to colonize the continent of Africa and to project power in much of Asia	63
13739669479	Key concept 5	Groups such as the Marathas in South Asia and the Taiping in East Asia challenge imperial rule	64
13739676021	Key concept 5	Banana Republics, whose economies focused on a single export, formed in Latin America	65
13739680122	Key concept 5	Slavery is replaced by indentured servitude as the primary source of agricultural labor in the Americas	66
13739684044	Key concept 5	After being humiliated by the British, China experiences a massive millenarian rebellion against the rule of the foreign Manchus	67
13739692923	Key concept 5	National identities form out of common cultural, ethnic, linguistic or religious traits	68
13739699708	Key concept 5	Enlightenment ideas about liberty and political legitimacy lead to independence movements and revolutions in Europe and the Americas	69
13739703918	Key concept 5	Japan is pulled out of its isolation, quickly industrializes, and is accepted as an equal power by the empires of Europe	70
13739710838	Key concept 5	Massive urbanization and industrialization in Europe lead to smaller families and lower fertility rates	71
13739715776	Key concept 5	The needs of the "Second Industrial Revolution" lead to copper mining operations in Mexico	72
13739719015	Key concept 5	Industrial production is critiqued by both economic liberals and communists	73
13739725947	Key concept 5	The Self-Strengthening Movement is not successful in reforming China	74
13739729064	Key concept 5	Ottoman and Chinese civilizations must balance industrial reform with their traditional indenties	75
13739733087	Key concept 5	Sepoys revolt against British rule in India	76
13739736622	Key concept 5	Colonization is intensified by evolutionary theories of race	77
13739739856	Key concept 6	The Russian and Ottoman Empires collapse	78
13739744269	Key concept 6	South Asia is partitioned into two states because of irreconcilable religious differences	79
13739748517	Key concept 6	Human population increases due to medical and scientific advances such as antibiotics and polio vaccinations	80
13739756441	Key concept 6	Women's suffrage movements are successful in Europe and North America	81
13739761180	Key concept 6	The most rapid and numerous independence movement in history occurs, some through armed conflict, and others through negotiations	82
13739775252	Key concept 6	Religious fundamentalism forms in the Americas and Middle East as reactions to, respectively, new scientific theories and political frustrations	83
13739783866	Key concept 6	Experiments in state managed economies take place in China and Russia	84
13739788350	Key concept 6	Pro-democracy movements are successful in Easter Europe but crushed in East Asia	85
13739796571	Key concept 6	Global power structure is characterized by bi-polar struggle between opposing economic ideologies	86
13739800975	Key concept 6	Global commerce is so interconnected that states become less relevant	87
13739805625	Key concept 6	Trading blocks of nations form; global organization emerge to facilitate rates	88
13739810405	Key concept 6	Global conflicts reap unprecedented civilian casualties	89