AP world unit 1 Flashcards
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What is meritocracy?
Society where people are chosen in class and job by their abilities and performance (civil service exam) CHINA
What is the civil service exam?
An exam used to determine the jobs and class of people based on their performance on the exam. CHINA
China’s trade was mainly where and they sold what.
The silk road, porcelian, textiles, tea AND Champa rice silk and steel
what kind of important tech did china have
Sailing technologyy
Noble truth 1
Pain and suffering is everywhere
noble truth 2
comes from greed
noble truth 3
we need to remove greed from us
noble truth 4
this will lead us to nirvana and a good afterlife must follow eight foldpath
scholar gentry
a social class, filled with land owners who inherited wealth, educated in confuscianism
china relationship to Japan, Korea and vietnam
they borrowed all of their culture and technology.
Monotheistic and islam traits
(unsure)
believe in one god and islan differs from hinduism in the way they only looked at one sacred text the quran compared to multiple. monotheism is based on morals and ethics.
trade location islam
silk road
are Merchants liked and why in islam?
Yes, they are high up compared to other countries because muhommed was a merchant
Islam technology
translated greek literacy, and studied eouropean math,
House of wisdom Baghdad
renowned center of learning scholars traveled from far to study there and It’s a location full of information big library.
Hinduism and islam had what
huge religious division and was the main reason of the split of pakistan - islam and india - hinduism
Caste system
system where when u are born in a place on the social hierarchy u get no social mobility and stay same class. india
How many crusades an what did they do.
They spread the church even more and won converts and there were 9. christianity won 1 and lost the rest
middle ages was a period of what and people waited for blank
a period of sadness and people waited for death
Shinto is from where
Japan
What did Mayans have tech wise.
writing, step pyramids, and accurate calendar.
What did incans have very impressively built of?
highways which were broad and wished upon. other people wanted what they had, they spanned across the lands
reasons for America’s decline
Aztec’s low amount of technology, incas were weakened by civil war and spaniards conquered them, and mayans environmental issues AND DISEASE
in Africa how was islam mainly spread
trade and forced conversion
Africa had what trade very important to them
gold.
trans Saharan trade was what
African trade across the sahara
what animal was used for african trade travel and how did they travel and why.
Camels, because they didn’t need water and caravans(groups) so they didn’t get robbed
Feudalism
land was very important, nobles and lords on top, then knights/vassals, then farmers, and then peasants,.
Manorialism
Mainly involves people living in their own towns, agriculture was very important. Three field system, and plows windmills
Latin was mainly used by what organization/religion and what happened to the latin language in the church.
Roman Catholic church, and started to be replaced by other small languages.
