ULTIMATE AP World Study Guide

A system dominated by males.

A revolution through the surplus of crops and food.

An independent state made up of a city and its surrounding territory.

The first written language.

A belief that gods are fixed in their location.

The belief that people should have free will and focus on good and evil.

A land route through Eurasia used for trade.

Justification for an emperor and his family to rule.

A belief system in china that teaches respect and education.

A belief system in Asia that focused on harmony with nature.

An exam which tested confucian ideas, those who succeeded would earn a government job.

The spread of people looking for religious freedom.

The core principals of Islam.

The leader of Islamic faith.

Muslims who beleive the caliph should be a political leader.

Muslims who beelive the caliph should be related to Muhammad.

A tax non-muslims pay in Dar al-Islam

A melding of confucian, buddhist and daoist ideas.

A Japenese military general.

Japenese land-owners

The offical religion of Japan.

A vast organization which appointed officals carried out the empire’s policies.

A fast-ripening and drought resistant grain of rice.

Eocnomic changes which caused people in rural areas to produce more goods than they could sell.

An arangement which required states provide money or goods to the Chinese emperor.

Chinese educated in confucian philosophy.

The practice of binding womens feet to show their social status.

The blending of buddist and daoist ideas.

The duty to show love an respect for elders.

A practice within Islam that specifies in religious purification.

A system made in East Asia which divided people based on their jobs.

This movement was created by hindus in the 12th century who prioritized spritiual connection to traditional teachings.

Social standing based on the womens family.

A society ruled by religious leaders.

Mandatory pubic service was used to better the kingdom. (INCAN)

A system created by the Inca to negotiate trade and give important messages.

Self-governed families.

People were the legal property of the owner.

Sub-Saharan story tellers.

A plot of land granted to lords.

People who worked in the manorial system but were not enslaved.

An agreement that required kings to uphold certain rights

A split between the holy roman empire that caused the creation of the roman catholic church and the christian orthodox church.

The focus on humans rather than god.

A chinese invention that aided navigation and ship control.

A chinese ship that could withstand rough voyages.

A chinese invention that allowed a merchant to deposut paper money under a name and access it in a different location.

An document that informed bankers how much money a merchant was given.

Any type of weapons used to attack a city or fortification.

A period of piece for the mongolian empire.

The offical mongolian alphabet.

A chinese soceity that caused the downfall of the mongols.

Triangular sails that coud easily catch winds coming from many directions.

An arab invention that allowed sailors to determine how far they were from the equator.

Communites of people from the same region in a popular trade area.

A model for warrior life that blended the cooperative vlaues of nomatic culture with the willingness to serve a as holy fighter for islam.

A common claim that the right to rule was given to a king by god.

Power directed by one source, most likely the king.

A noble landowning class.

A system of recruiting Christian boys to the Ottoman empire.

Elite forces in the Ottoman empire.

A combination of the hindu faith and Sunni muslim beliefs.

The act of paying money to be freed of sin.

Martin Luther wrote a list of church practices tha violated biblical teachings.

Groups of people who split from the Roman catholic church.

A group of social attacks on the protestant religion.

Followes of jesus who were against the protestants.

A strict Islamic legal system.

The collection of data to back up a hypothesis.

Collecting tax from an area instead of each person individually.

Map making.

Portuguese boats that could go on long voyages at great speeds.

The act of making lots of products to sell, so the amount of money comin in would never stop.

Small communities of trade that big colonizing countries owned.

Interations between europeans and natives and their effects.

The dispurse of Africans outside of Africa.

Servants who are only subjected to work for a period of time.

People are considered as property and are bought and sold.

An agreement between Portugal and Spain that split their territory in the Americas.

A treaty signed by the French and Iroquois natives.

Spanish coerced labor that revolved around gold.

Spanish coerced labor that revolved around agiculture.

The grueling travel across the atlantic.

When investors finance trade by buying shares in a corportation.

The transformation to a trade-based economy where gold and silver is used as money.

A trade agreement between West Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

Granted merchants the exclusive right to trade.

Spanish elected representatives that would represent the Spanish crown in colonies.

Those of the European and native race.

Those of European and African race.

The belief that knowledge comes from sensed experience.

John Locke wrote this contract to make sure individual rights are secure, and untouchable from the government.

The belief that the government has little control over economic decisions.

An economic system which allows factories and natural resources to be owned.

The belief that factories and natural resources should be owned by a community.

American colonies fighting for natural rights from Britain.

A french uprising that occured because of high taxes.

A french statement declaring basic human rights.

A period time where the french government executed members of the French revolution.

A revolution that started to free slaves in Haiti.