AP World History Semester 1 Exam Review – Flashcards
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Discuss the political organization of the Mesopotamian civilization.
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Focus on Agriculture, built in river valley, in one place, non nomads
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What is the Neolithic Revolution? Where did it occur?
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Time where people settled down, tools were invented
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Discus Indus Valley contributions and its decline.
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First civilization, cratered tools, declined with stronger civilizations
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What was the Mesopotamian, Sumerian civilization known for producing?
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Tools
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Compare Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations.
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Both based on river valleys
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Compare the Qin and Zhou dynasties in classical China.
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Both focused highly on military power
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What is a dynasty?
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Reign of a family, ruled over china, government form of china
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Discuss the various functions/aspects of the Han government.
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Peasants worked for higher class, that class for another class, all the way up to the top
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Discuss the Chinese view of nature.
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Chinese saw nature as a peaceful being, and tried to find harmony with nature.
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Compare Daoism and Confucianism.
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Both focuesd on peace with nature
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Compare classical Chinese and Indian society.
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India more tolerable and had casts system
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How did Buddism differ from Hinduism.
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How did the Mauryan dynasty differ from the Gupta dynasty?
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Gupta less tolerable
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Discuss the political, social, and economic aspects of the Roman Empire.
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Emperor, focus on conquering, trade
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Discuss the possible Confucian viewpoint of the Roman Empire.
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How did the Greeks approach science?
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Learn by doing
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Who were the Bedouins?
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Who was Muhammad? What was his role in the development of Islam, especially his flight to Medina?
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What are the five pillars of Islam?
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Discuss the Sunni-Shia split.
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Religious belief conflicts
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Discuss the status of women in Islamic society, especially during the Abbasid.
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Low class, no power
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What were the crusades? Why were they successful initially?
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Holy Wars, initially brought much trade
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What was the impact of the Crusades on West? On Islam?
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Money to the west, bad for the Islam
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Compare Islam and Hinduism - similarities and differences.
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Hindu had hire focus on nature and multiple gods
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What was iconoclasm?
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worship of icons
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What caused the split between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches?
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Who was Pope Gregory VII?
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What is manorialism?
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What is feudalism?
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working in return for land
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Describe the dominant artistic and architectural style of the High Middle Ages.
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Domes, spirlets
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Discuss the basic formation and political sturcture of the Tang dynasty.
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Who were the scholar-gentry? Discuss their change in status over time.
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class of scholars, elite
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Discuss the status of women in the Tang-Song dynasty of post-classical China.
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considered beautiful, but had no power
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Discuss the relationship of the peasants to samurai in Japan.
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What resulted from the collapse of the Ashikaga Shogunate?
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Discuss the state of the Korean bureasucracy under the Chinese influence.
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Korea became a mirror of China
