AP World History Unit 2 Flashcards

7601582519	Persian Empire	Who used the irrigation tunnels?	0
7601594426	Cyrus the Great	Who laid the foundation for the Persian Empire?	1
7601611286	He treated his conquered people better compared to others (did not automatically enslave people)	Why was Cyrus the Great such a great leader?	2
7601631127	Darius	Who organized the Persian Empire into 20 satraps (provinces)?	3
7601752133	Darius	Who was responsible for regularizing taxes in Persia?	4
7601646939	They had hereditary positions of power, so no one questioned leadership	Why was there typically no drama between the Persians' government?	5
7601661322	Underground irrigation tunnels	What is a qanat?	6
7601668278	Human environment interaction	What is a qanat an example of?	7
7601679624	Persepolis	What was the capital city in Persia?	8
7601685261	To show how powerful they are, and was an administrative center	Why did they build Persepolis?	9
7601696077	Zoroastrianism	What religion did the Persians practice?	10
7601713346	Monotheistic (believed in one god)	What type of religion was Zoroastrianism?	11
7601730479	Persian Empire	Who was responsible for the following innovations: Royal Road to connect the empire for trade and cultural diffusion and Standardized Currency (coins)	12
7601769763	The Warring States Period	What time period was China in before the Qin Dynasty was formed?	13
7601777341	Legalism	What political policy did the Qin use?	14
7601804868	Qin	Who was responsible for centralization (standardization of laws, currencies, measurements, scripts) in China?	15
7601815330	Central government	Where did Qin want all the power?	16
7601834152	Han Fe Zi	Who founded legalism?	17
7601844927	Legalism	Which ethical system uses force and harsh punishments to control people?	18
7601853985	Naturally selfish and evil	How did legalists view humans?	19
7601860051	Confucious	Who founded confucianism?	20
7601873161	Confucianism	Which ethical system believed that problems could be solved with universal love?	21
7601884688	Naturally good	How did confucians view humans?	22
7601892599	Laozi	Who was the founder of daoism?	23
7601922550	Daoism	Which ethical system believed that man is unhappy because they lives by manmade laws instead of 'going with the flow'?	24
7601932255	Daoism	Whose goal was to become like nature?	25
7601948842	Confucians	What group of people fixed mistakes with education instead of punishments?	26
7601953619	Legalists	What group of people thought that power was more important than freedom?	27
7601958549	Daoists	What group of people thought that everything must be balanced?	28
7601973972	A civil war	What caused the split between the Qin and Han Dynasties?	29
7601982409	Liu Bang	Who established the Han Empire?	30
7601990472	Confucianism but had legal codes and punishments	What ethical system did the Han Dynasty live under?	31
7602011109	The Xiongnu	Who were the Han Dynasty's enemies?	32
7602020571	To stop the chaos of the Warring Period	Why were the ethical systems created?	33
7604810770	He made allies with the Xiongnu's other enemies and sent 100,000 soldiers to push them back, but that did not stop them	How did Wudi push the Xiongnu back?	34
7604857804	They made monopolies (only the government can produce the items)	To make iron and salt more valuable, what did the Han government do?	35
7604880363	The powerful people had most of the land (unequal land distribution)	What was a big problem during Han?	36
7604913478	Women	Wine making, weaving, silkworm raising, managing household, and raising children were whose jobs?	37
7604933805	Han Dynasty	Sending people to school and having the officials chosen through competitive testing was unique to who?	38
7604950317	Paper, collar harness, plow with two blades, wheel barrow, water wheel, and crossbow	What technologies did the Han Dynasty develop?	39
7604971897	Silk textiles	What the Han's prized commodity?	40
7604990235	Defending against nomads	What did the Han majorly use their defense for?	41
7605030013	Han Dynasty	Who has trouble with social tensions between the poor and the rich with land?	42
7605048703	Wang Bang	Which emperor claimed the imperial title himself, and wanted life to improve for the poor?	43
7605066412	Chandragupta Maurya	Who is the founded of the Mauryan Empire?	44
7605078780	With total power over every aspect of his empire	How did Chandragupta rule his (conquered) empire?	45
7605096821	Kautalya	Who was Chandragupta's advisor of the empire?	46
7605116490	Ashoka Maurya	Who was Chandragupta's grandson who was the high point of the Mauryan Empire?	47
7605584980	Kalingans	Who did Ashoka Maurya crush in a gruesome battle because they were not obedient?	48
7605600153	Buddhism	Which religion did Ashoka Maurya convert his empire to after the gruesome fight?	49
7605610541	Hospitals and wells along the trade routes	What did Ashoka Maurya built to help his people?	50
7605618991	Ashoka Muarya's sons ruined the empire with over expensive military and debasing currencies	How did the Mauryan Empire collapse?	51
7614861906	Gupta Empire	Which empire supported arts, science and math?	52
7614861907	They were decentralized, believed that the rulers were reincarnations of gods, supported Hinduism, and supported arts, science and math	How did the Gupta differ from the Mauryan Empire?	53
7614861908	Gupta Empire	Whose economy was based on extensive trade?	54
7614861909	They were very patriarchal	How the the social aspects of the Gupta Empire?	55
7614861910	Classified diseases, plastic surgeries, 500 healing plants, c-sections, inoculations (inject small amount of sickness to prevent you from getting it)	What medicine technologies did the Gupta Empire develop?	56
7614861911	Decimal system, PI, and zero	What math technologies did the Gupta develop?	57
7614861912	The Earth is round	What philosophy did the Gupta Empire develop?	58
7614861913	The invasion of the White Huns (economic toll on Empire)	What led to the decline of the Gupta Empire?	59