AP World History Key Concepts Flashcards
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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 |