AP World History Modern Speed Review Flashcards

Flashcards with questions and answers from AP World History Modern Speed Review.

What is Neo-Confucianism?

The Song dynasty ruled using this philosophy.

What is Buddhism?

This belief system remained the main one in East Asia during the Song dynasty.

What is Champa rice?

This type of rice led to plenty of food during the Song dynasty.

What are sultanates?

This replaced the caliphate system after the Abbasids fell.

What is Sufism?

This is a mystical branch of Islam that attracted converts throughout Dar al Islam.

What is the Inca Empire?

This empire centralized power through their road system and the Mita labor system.

What is the Aztec Empire?

This empire centralized power through their human sacrifice system and had lake farms called Chinampas.

What are the African empires?

These empires focused on state building through Mali and the Trans-Saharan trade, and Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili Coast.

What is feudalism?

This European system focused on serfs working on manors and a decentralized system of government

What is the Silk Road?

Name the trade route commonly known as how East meets West.

What are Kashgar and Samarkand?

Name two powerful trading cities that emerged in Central Asia along the Silk Road.

What are banking houses and flying cash?

Other than silk and porcelain, name something else that economically changed the game along the Silk Road.

What is the Indian Ocean trade?

This is the maritime edition of the Silk Road.

What is diaspora?

This means people living away from their homeland that established communities in other lands.

Who is Admiral Zheng He?

This famous admiral made his voyages along the Indian Ocean trade route.

What is the Trans-Saharan Trade?

This trade route connects Dar al-Islam to Sub-Saharan Africa.

What is the Bubonic Plague or Champa Rice or Citrus Roots?

Name one environmental consequence of trade.

What is Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, or travelers like Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta.

Name one cultural consequence of trade.

What are Khanates?

The Mongol empires turned into these.

Who are the Manchus?

This group invaded China from the North and established the final Chinese empire.

Who are the Ottomans?

This group took control of Constantinople in 1453 and renamed it Istanbul.

What is Devshirme?

This was how the Ottoman army, bureaucracy and intellectuals were built.

What is tax farming?

This describes selling the right to tax to the highest bidder.

Who are the Mughals?

This Islamic group ruled over a Hindu majority in India.

Who are the Safavids?

This empire is best known as the Shia empire.

What is the Protestant Reformation?

This split the European Christians for the second time.

What is Sikhism?

This brand new religion was based on the teachings of Guru Nanak in the Mughal Empire and took teachings from both Hinduism and Islam.

Who are the Portuguese?

This empire sought a route around Africa and also a means of spreading Christianity.

What are viceroyalties?

These are areas ruled by a vice king or viceroy in the Spanish Empire.

What is the encomienda system?

This kind of new world feudalism system was set up by the Spanish and extracted cash crops like sugar and coffee.

What is a trading post empire?

This describes empires establishing small trading posts to move goods in and out of places.

What are Joint Stock Companies?

These were government-sponsored monopolies, but anyone could invest and spread the risk.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

This is maybe the most important thing ever, and describes all of these plants, animals, and diseases crossing the ocean for the first time.

What is the casta system?

This system attempted to build a hierarchy where Africans, Americans, and Europeans were living together in the new world.

What is nationalism?

This is the idea that a nation, a group of people with shared beliefs, should run the state or the government.

Who is James Watt?

This man improved the steam engine that made a movable power source that could power anything.

What is the Meiji Restoration?

This successful movement put Japan on the road to a global powerhouse during the industrial revolution.

What is capitalism?

This is a policy where restrictions of mercantilism were gone, and laissez-faire policies were all the rage.

Who is Karl Marx?

This German envisioned a world where the worker rose up and seized the means of production.

What is Imperialism?

These new industrial powerhouses turned old trading posts into massive empires in Unit 6.

What is the Berlin Conference?

This conference in Africa determined the future of Africa for centuries.

What is the Sepoy Mutiny?

This mutiny in India led to the switch from the private East India Company to the government rule of the British Raj.

What is the Opium War, Taiping Rebellion, Sino-Japanese War, and/or Boxer Rebellion?

Name one of the wars during the century of humiliation in China.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

This act restricted Chinese immigration to the United States.

Who are the Bolsheviks?

The Russian Revolution was caused by who overthrowing the Russians?

What is World War I?

This war was caused by a bunch of factors, but focus in on how imperialism increased tensions, new alliance systems assured a larger-scale conflict and nationalism.

What is a machine gun, gas, tank, and/or zeppelin?

Name a technology or weapon used in World War I.

What is the Holocaust?

This atrocity is the largest.

What is Capitalism vs. Communism?

The Cold War split the world after World War II with two dueling ideologies:

What is the Cold War?

This split the world after World War II with two dueling ideologies.

What is Vietnam or Afghanistan?

Name a country or region that the U.S. fought in a proxy war with the Soviets?

What is the United Nations?

This global organization was formed after World War II to guarantee states the right to self-determination.

What is technology like planes, radios, cell phones, even container ships?

This American policy helped create a more connected planet.

What is the Green Revolution?

This revolution massively increased the production of crops worldwide to feed an ever-growing global population.

What is Alzheimer's or HIV/AIDS?

This disease brought new challenges to people worldwide.

What is the 1918 Spanish Flu?

This virus had some of the highest mortality rates in human history.