Period 1 Review Ways of the World for AP - Get out your vocab list!

Question 1

Term used to describe the military campaigns, killing, and empire building pursued by Genghis Khan and his successors

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Mongol world war

Question 2

Great Chinese admiral who commanded a huge fleet of ships in a series of voyages in the Indian Ocean

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Zheng He

Question 3

An academic center for research and translation of foreign texts that was established in Baghdad in 830 c.e.

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House of Wisdom

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A major rise in prosperity that took place in China under the Song dynasty (960-1279)

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China’s economic revolution

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Emerged after the Qin collapsed, establishing political and cultural patterns that lasted into the twentieth century.

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Han dynasty

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A "wisdom teacher" and Jewish mystic whose life, teachings, death, and alleged resurrection gave rise to a new religion

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Jesus of Nazareth

Question 7

The Chinese practice of tightly wrapping girls' feet to keep them small, prevalent in the Song dynasty and later

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foot binding

Question 8

Islamic religious scholars, both Sunni and Shia, who shaped and transmitted the core teachings of Islamic civilization

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Ulama

Question 9

A religion based on the many beliefs, practices, sects, rituals, and philosophies in India

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Hinduism

Question 10

An Arab dynasty of caliphs who governed much of the Islamic world from its capital in Baghdad beginning in 750 c.e.

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Abbasid

Question 11

The Russian name for the incorporation of Russia into the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century

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Khanate of the Golden Horde

Question 12

Hindu movement involved the adoration of and identification with a deity through songs, prayers, and rituals.

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Bhakti

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monopolized the import of horses and metals as part of the trans-Saharan trade; produced gold, one ruler was Mansa Musa

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Mali

Question 14

China's capital during the Song dynasty, with a population at its height of more than a million people.

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Hangzhou

Question 15

A system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire.

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Caesaropapism

Question 16

"Great Vehicle," the popular development of Buddhism in the early CE, gives a much greater role to supernatural beings

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Mahayana

Question 17

Major Turkic empire established in Persia in the early sixteenth century and tried to convert its people to Shia Islam.

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Safavid

Question 18

A powerful state in the southern African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold

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Great Zimbabwe

Question 19

A major commercial city of West African civilization and a noted center of Islamic scholarship and education

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Timbuktu

Question 20

What is the name of Mrs. Brady's dog?

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Calypso, The Stupid

Question 21

Indian mystical and philosophical works written between 800 and 400 b.c.e.

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Upanishads

Question 22

A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Saharan trade

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Sand Roads

Question 23

An empire of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, centered in Persia and present-day Iraq.

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Seljuk Turkic

Question 24

With a reputation for great riches, __ flourished between 750-1076 and was later absorbed into the Kingdom of Mali

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Ghana

Question 25

During ____, scholarship gave rise to Neo-Confucianism, and a revolution in agricultural and industrial production

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Song dynasty

Question 26

"Teaching of the Elders," the early form of Buddhism according to which the Buddha was a wise teacher but not divine

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Theravada

Question 27

Land-based trade routes that linked many regions of Eurasia. They were named after the most famous product

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Silk Roads

Question 28

A term used to describe the "holy wars" waged by Western Christendom, especially against the forces of Islam

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Crusades

Question 29

A variation of Chinese writing developed in Vietnam that became the basis for an independent national literature

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chu nom

Question 30

Grandson of Chinggis Khan who became the first il-khan (subordinate khan) of Persia

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Hulegu

Question 31

A major civilization of Mesoamerica known for the most elaborate writing system, 250-900 CE

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Maya civilization

Question 32

A fairly small-scale commerce in slaves that flourished especially from 1100 to 1400, selling slaves across the Sahara

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trans-Saharan slave trade

Question 33

Included the states of Ghana, Mali, Songhay, and Kanem, as well as numerous towns and cities, controlled gold trade

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West African civilization

Question 34

A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas

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American web

Question 35

A social system in which women have been made subordinate to men in the family and in society

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Patriarchy

Question 36

This city was a vital way stop on the Silk Road

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Karakorum

Question 37

Mongol dynasty initiated by Khubilai Khan that ruled China from 1271 to 1368.

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Yuan dynasty

Question 38

A massive pandemic that swept through Eurasia in the early fourteenth century, spreading along the trade routes

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Bubonic Plague

Question 39

New capital for the eastern half of the Roman Empire; highly defensible and economically important

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Constantinople

Question 40

The world's largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 c.e. Centered on India

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Sea Roads

Question 41

This is the most holy text of Islam, which records the words of God through revelations given to the Prophet Muhammad

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Quran

Question 42

A "rebirth" of classical learning that is often associated with the cultural blossoming of Italy in the period 1350-1500

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European Renaissance

Question 43

Advocates a simple and unpretentious way of living and alignment with the natural world

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Daoism

Question 44

A phonetic alphabet developed in Korea in the fifteenth century in a move toward cultural independence from China

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hangul

Question 45

A Chinese philosophy advocating the moral example of superiors as the key element of social order

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Confucianism

Question 46

Western European branch of Christianity that gradually defined itself as separate from Eastern Orthodoxy

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Roman Catholic Church

Question 47

Professional merchants among the Aztecs who undertook large-scale trading expeditions

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Pochteca

Question 48

Saw the worldly success of Islamic civilization as a distraction and deviation from the purer spirituality

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Sufi

Question 49

The Prophet and founder of Islam whose religious revelations became the Quran starting a radically monotheistic religion

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Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

Question 50

An East African civilization that emerged in the eighth century c.e. as a set of commercial city-states

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Swahili

Question 51

Based on an alternative kind of food-producing economy focused on the raising of livestock

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Pastoral society

Question 52

The surviving eastern Roman Empire and one of the centers of Christendom during the medieval centuries.

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Byzantine

Question 53

The monotheistic religion developed in the Middle East by the Hebrews, emphasizing a sole personal god (Yahweh)

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Judaism

Question 54

Built by a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people, It stretched 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains

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Inca Empire

Question 55

A Malay kingdom that dominated the choke point in Indian Ocean trade at the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 c.e.

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Srivijaya

Question 56

Arabic name for Spain, most of which was conquered by Arab and Berber forces

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al-Andalus

Question 57

settlement that occurred in the period 860-1130 c.e. among the peoples in what is now northwestern New Mexico

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Chaco Phenomenon

Question 58

Major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; dominated by the Mexica

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Aztec Empire

Question 59

An early convert and missionary (ca. 6-67 c.e.) and the first great popularizer of Christianity, especially to non-Jews

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Saint Paul

Question 60

Grandson of Chinggis Khan who ruled China from 1271 to 1294.

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Khubilai

Question 61

Branch of Christianity that developed in the eastern part of the Roman Empire

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Eastern Orthodox

Question 62

Birth name of the Mongol leader better known as Genghis Khan (1162-1227), or "universal ruler,"

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Temujin

Question 63

A societal grouping governed by a leader who typically relies on generosity, ritual status, or charisma

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Chiefdom

Question 64

The Indian prince whose exposure to human suffering led him to develop a path to Enlightenment

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Siddhartha Gautama

Period 1 Review Ways of the World for AP - Get out your vocab list!

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Period 1 Review Ways of the World for AP - Get out your vocab list!

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