AP World History Unit 1 test

What do Confucianism and Hinduism have in common?

Social Inequality

How were the Assyrian and Babylonian empires alike?

They conquered land by force

What is diffusion?

Spreading of all aspects of culture

What were characteristics of hunting/gathering societies?

Not as judgmental, no strict social system, small grips, no skill, no labor, no trade

What was the major difference between the Han China Empire and the Roman Empire?

Rome had slaves, China had peasants

How were women treated in Greece?

Unequal, allowed to farm

What were the political structures in the middle east?

city-states, empires, divine kingships

Why were rivers important to civilizations?

Agriculture, irrigation, travel

What were features of the caste system?

Born into your caste, had duties in each caste

What rights did women have in Mesopotamia and Egypt have?

They could own land

Geography of Iceland

North Atlantic Ocean, European island country

What were the features of sedentary agriculture?

Stay in one place, not hunting

What development marked the end of the Bronze Age?

Iron being developed

What people developed the first alphabet?

Phoenicians

What is oligarchy?

A dictatorship, one person in control

What was the social hierarchy in Mesopotamia?

Patriarchal

Geography of Grand Canal

Beijing to Hangzhou

Why was the Zhou dynasty so long lived?

Technology

What city-state did democracy develop in?

Greece

The Nile River runs from:

Uganda to Egypt

How was life different in the Neolithic age as opposed to the paleolithic age?

Neolithic, agriculture settled. Paleolithic, nomadic

What did China do that was lasting?

Centralized government, bureaucracy, emperor, great wall of china

What did the declines of Rome and China have in common?

Invasions

What did Hinduism and Buddhism have in common?

Reincarnation

What were the legacies of Rome?

Democracy, architecture, Christianity, Hellenistic age

Why were the Assyrians the first real empire?

They conquered the middle east with armies, had a leader

AP theme 1

Impact of interaction among and within major societies

AP theme 2

Impact of technology economy and demography on people and the environment

AP theme 3

Systems of social structure and gender structure

AP theme 4

Cultural religious and intellectual developments

AP theme 5

Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities including the emergence of the nation state