AP World History Ch 4-7 Test
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- (7) the animal most important to Saharan trans.
- camel
- what does "sahel" mean
- "the coast"
- 1st millennium CE, what about Sub-Saharan Africa?
- it had become a distinct cultural region adn covered a larger and more diverse area than any other cultural region
- (7)sub saharan africa, shared cultural heritage; "great traditions" (4 things)
- written language, common legal and belief systems, ethical codes, other intellectual attitudes
- sub saharan africa, (7)what kind of metal developement?
- iron smelting
- (7)S-SA languages come from which linguistic family?
- niger-congo family known as Bantu
- (7)Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade spread what religion?
- Buddhism adn Zoroastrianism
- (7)Head of Ethiopian Christian church, title,
- bishop/leader of church
- (6)where did most important cultural influences on SE asia come from
- China and India
- (6)Funan dominated what key location for trade?
- Isthmus of Kra
- (6)know plan/animal species that thrived in SE Asia.
- wet rice, soy beans, sugar canes, yams, bananas, coconuts, coco yams, chickens, pigs
- (6)Why is SE Asia a geologically active zone?
- Ring of Fire
- (6)During Gupta period, exported what products over land and sea?
- agriculture, iron, salt
- (6)most important contribution by Gupta intellectuals:
- math
- (6)chief source of revenue for Gupta empire?
- 25% tax on agriculture
- (6)earlies deciphered Indian writing:
- pillars by Ashoka
- (6)Devi/Kali-what do they represent?
- Devi=wife, mom, fertility Kali=violent, destructive
- (6)Ultimate spiritual reward in Buddhism?
- nirvana
- (6)what did 4 noble truths teach?
- 1-life is suffering 2-suffereing arises from desire 3- solution to suffering lies in curbing desire 4-desire can be curbed if a person follows Eightfold path (of right views, aspirations, speech, conduct, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and meditation
- (6)release from cycle of reincarnations?
- moksha
- (6)reincarnation of atman into given class depends on :
- karma
- (6)varna system developed in order to creat:
- regulation of relations between differing groups of color
- (6)vedic Age marked by :
- religion
- 5-fundamental economic activity in both Han and Roman civilizations:
- agriculture and trade
- 5-important Han innovation = developement of :
- paper, bronze, tools, canals
- 5-202 BCE- urban capital of Han dynasty =
- Chang'an
- 5-influence of Confusion ethics made Chinese values emphasized by what?
- loyalty, obedience, repect, honor, and conduct.
- 5-Shi Huangdi cracked down on who to increase his power?
- Confucianists
- 5- Which Roman emperor created corpus juris civilis?
- Justinian
- 5-What city became capital of Ramoan Empire in 324 CA?
- Byzantium Constantinople
- 5- most visible symptom of Rome's 3rd century crisis =
- frequent change of ruler
- 5-why was being a Christian an act of disloyalty in the Roman Empire?
- monotheists forbidden to worship other gods;refusal to worship emperor
- 5-reaso why Jesus was claimed Messiah?
- Jews wanted a leader to liberate and run Romans out
- 5-under principate, Roman law was:
- studied and codified with new intensity by the class of legal experts
- 5-Emperor responsible for reorganization or Rome after 31 BCE?
- Augustus/Octavian
- 5-Why were the 2 bloody wars against Carthage so important?
- Octavian took over and reorganized Rome
- 5-how did early Romans view the natural world?
- land basis of wealth
- 5-center of political action in Roman Republic?
- Roman Senate
- 4-After Alexander's death, the Selucid Kingdom got what portion of his empire?
- Mesopotamia (core), Syria, and parts of Anatolia
- 4-The 3 great Greek classical philosophers?
- Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
- 4-father of history in western tradition?
- Herodotus
- 4-archaic greek notion of humanism?
- individuals are rewarded/punished in afterlife for actions
- 4-greek democracy included political participation by who?
- free adult males
- 4- meaning of acropolis and agora
- acropolis = top of city agora = gathering place
- 4-characteristics fo recovery of Archaic periodf?
- emphasis on silf and individual. religious sacrafice. seek advice info and predictions of futrue. 1st true alphabet. revewed trade. Hoplites.
- 4-Why was Phoenician alphabe writing system a great gift to the Greeks?
- let them produce forms of lit, law godes, religious dedications, epitaphs for gravestones
- 4-Greek Dark Age = period for what?
- isolation
- 4-lacking mineral deposits, what did Greeks mine?
- marble and clay
- 4- what grew well in Greeks dry environment?
- barley olives nad grapes
- 4-what are the tenants of Zoroastrianism?
- high ethical standard, integrity, keep body pure, honesty, keep promises, nonviolence
- 4-what do recent finding suggest about Persian women of the elite class?
- politically influencial, travel, possess property, prominent on public occasions
- 4-cyrus and his son ruled by the following practical approach of what?
- followed native traditions, cultivated nobles, priest.
- 4-medes were 1st Iranian people to do what
- achieve complex level of political organization
- (7)what was sasanid stastte religion
- zoroastrianism
- (7)sasanid empire centered in presenty day
- iran
- (7)zhang Jian intorduced what 2 things to china
- alfalfa and wine grapes
- (7)military technology that the silk road spread =
- chariot warfare, mounted bowmen, stirrups
- (7)IOMS had economic and social ties between where
- E africa, s arabia, persian gulf, india, se asia, s china
- (7)eary inhabitants of madagascar came from
- Asia
- (7)why was maritime trabe better in SE Asia than in W Asia
- SE had Indian Ocean, W only had Med. Sea