AP World 1.2-1.6

Question 1

Describe Judiasm

Answer 1

Monotheistic, ethnic religion of the jews, originated in Middle East

Question 2

What is Dar-al-Islam?

Answer 2

Means “house of Islam” (anywhere where Islam was majority or the spread of Islam to many parts of the world)

Question 3

Describe Christianity

Answer 3

monotheistic, established by a Jew (jesus)

Question 4

Describe Islam

Answer 4

founded by Muhammad in the Arabian Peninsula

Question 5

What were the Islamic doctrines?

Answer 5

salvation is found in almsgiving, prayer, and tasting

Question 6

After the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate what happened?

Answer 6

Turkic Muslims started to come in and set up new rival empires

Question 7

Who were the three main Turkic Muslim empires that arose after the fall of Abbasid Caliphate?

Answer 7

Seljuk Turks (Central Asia), Mamluk Sultanate (Egypt), Delhi Sultanate (South Asia)

Question 8

What are the three main ways Islam spread?

Answer 8

Military expansion, merchant activity (trade), and Muslim Missionaires

Question 9

What were the three main belief systems in Southeast Asia (1200-1450)?

Answer 9

Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism

Question 10

What was the dominent religion in South Asia/India?

Answer 10

Hinduism- polythietisc, goal is to reunite their souls to Brahman, provided conditions for unified culture in India, caste system

Question 11

Describe Buddhism

Answer 11

founded in India, equality for all, universalizing religion, more likely to spread

Question 12

What was a major change to Hindusim?

Answer 12

Bhakti movement- one god, no hierarchy, equality/welcome

Question 13

What was a major change to Islam?

Answer 13

Sufism- more mystical/spirtiual

Question 14

What was a major change to Buddhism?

Answer 14

Became more exlusive, mostly only avaiiable to Monks

Question 15

What is the difference between a sea-based empire and a land-based empire?

Answer 15

Whether they get their power from the land and the sea

Question 16

What was the Aztec empire like?

Answer 16

established by the Mexico Ethnic group, decentralized power, tributary system (forced neighboring or local city states to pay tribute like resources or human sacrifice and failure to do so resulted in invasion from the Aztecs), religious motivation for expansion

Question 17

What were Andean civilizations?

Answer 17

Households in the Incan empire

Question 18

What was the Inca Empire like?

Answer 18

centralized power, massive bureaucracy, required labor for everyone to work on state projects (Mita)

Question 19

What was the Mita system?

Answer 19

Incan empire - labor expected that the citizens in the Incan empire do

Question 20

Who were the Great Sun?

Answer 20

Powerful chiefs who dominated the political structure of North American civilizations, extended political power over smaller settlements

Question 21

What was the Swahili civilization like?

Answer 21

Merchants wanted gold, ivory, timber, slaves, Islam bcame the dominent belief system and influenced the language, hierarchical

Question 22

How did Great Zimbabwe become wealthy?

Answer 22

got rich from the Indian Ocean trade, mainly exported gold but also bread and butter

Question 23

What were the Hausa Kingdoms?

Answer 23

city-states that were politcally independent and gained power and wealth through trade across the trans-saharan network)

Question 24

All African states adopted _______ to organize their societies and faciliate trade EXCEPT ________ who was Christian

Answer 24

Islam, Ethiopa

Question 25

What was the dominent religion in Europe?

Answer 25

Christianity- became the official state religion through Roman empire

Question 26

What religions were important minorities in Europe?

Answer 26

Islam and Judiasm

Question 27

What was western Europe like?

Answer 27

social, political, and economic order was organized by feudalism

Question 28

What is feudalism?

Answer 28

a system of allegiances between powerful lords, monarchs, and kings

Question 29

What is manorialism?

Answer 29

peasants were bound to land and worked in it in exchange for protection from the lord and his military forces

Question 30

What are serfs?

Answer 30

slaves basically

Question 31

What caused constant conflicts over power in Europe?

Answer 31

Monarchs in various states began to gain power and centralize their states with large militaries and bureaucracies