AP World Flashcards

Flashcards for AP World History

Song Dynasty

Borrowed Imperial Bureaucracy and Confucianism for Rule

Abbasid Empire

Turkic States replaced it through Islam consolidating power

Delhi Sultanate

Established by Turkish Muslims

Song Dynasty/China

Civil Service Exam thoroughly Confucian

Mamluk Sultanate

Slave empire of people who were not muslims who would overthrow control and become Mamluk

Vijayanagara and Chola Empire

Built by means of trade

Song Leaders

Expanded Trade through the silk road along with other routes

Majapahit/Srivijaya

synchronized Buddist and Hindu Faith through architecture

Incas

Had a focus on highly centralized administration

Aztecs

Much more decentralized than Incas

Incas Mita System

Compelling people into mandatory acts of public service

Europeans Feudalism

Rigid class layers, though feudal lords would lose power

Delhi Sultanate

Muslims invaded Northern India

Silk Road

Connecting china to Europe

Trans-Saharan Network

North Africa to Sub-Saharan Africa

Indian Ocean Network

East Asia to East Africa connecting

Marco Polo

Venetian Merchant who traveled to China inspiring European Interest Eastward

Ibn Battuta

Moroccan scholar who thoroughly traveled for Extension in Islamic belief and brough strong beliefs and hope for Cultural Exchange

Mansa Musa

Mali Empire’s Ruler who displayed wealth and power through pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 to West Africa

Zheng He

Chinese Admiral leading 7 voyages to Southeast Asia, India, and East Africa to Expand the Ming dynasty Diplomacy and Trade

Fall of Constantinople

A mark of the byzantine Empire’s End and the new rise of ottoman control in Eastern Mediterranean

Voyage to India

Vasco De Gama opened direct sea routes from Europe to Asia challenging Muslim Dominance in Indian Ocean Trade

Columbian Exchange

Transfer of plants, animals and diseases between old and “new” worlds following columbus’ voyages

Mongol

Largest Land Based Empire beginning as cluster of Tribes, Genghis Khan brought together with brutality and conquest.

Qing Dynasty

The Manchu made up the Qing through the civil Service Exam making the people of their bureaucracy think and believe the same, coming after the Ming

Ottoman Empire

Ottomans made progress and bureaucracy through thorough education( Philosophy,Politics, and Aert) following the taking of Christian boys to eventually join bureaucratic workers or Janissaries, occasionally even higher roles.

AZTEC

Through Tribute systems as a giving way of showing their presence in their body of being ruled instead of direct consolidation

Akhbar

Man of promotion of religious tolerance and syncretic faith

Devshirme System

Conscription of Christian boys for military and administrative service against other ruling people.

European States

Establishing Control West in the Americas

Haitian Revolution

Slave Revolt against British