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AP World midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What are the beliefs of Confucianism? | Respect your elders and value education |
| What countries were influenced by Chinese traditions | Japan and Korea |
| Sinification | The process of non-chinese places adopting Chinese traditions and culture |
| Monasticism | A religious way of living where monks and nuns are isolated from others and are self disciplined |
| What religions have monasticism | Christianity and Buddhism |
| Mit'a system | A system of mandatory public service used in the Inca empire |
| Aztec tribute system | Aztec empire demanded tribute from conquered regions |
| What did the European crusaders fail to do during the crusades? | Failed to permanantly gain control of the holy land permanently |
| Why is the European failure to permanently control the holy land seen as a good thing? | Interest in the middle east and other parts of the world spiked in Europe, leading to the Renaissance. |
| What political system is associated with the European and Japanese middle ages? | Fuedalism *NOT MANORILAISM* |
| What empire taxed and policed the silk road? | The Mongolian Empire |
| What were the two types of people responsible for the spread of Islam? | Merchants and Sufi missionaries |
| Why was Mali an important hub of trade | Abundance of gold |
| What was being mastered along the IOTN? What communities began to develop as a result? | Monsoon winds and syncretic communities |
| How did the Black death spread? | Trade routes, unsanitary urban centers, and rats |
| What system will diminish in Europe due to the Black Death? | Fuedalism |
| Why is the siege of Constantinople significant? | It sent scholars west, ending the dark ages in Europe and marking the start of the renaissance |
| What would the Qing maintain that the Ming brought back from the Song dynasty? | Civil service exams |
| What was the social convention in colonial Latin America | Social hierarchy based on race and place of birth |
| Why were so many Africans brought to the Americas? | To be used for slave labor after disease killed many Native Americans |
| Why did the ottoman empire have a good geographical location | Located on trade routes that connected Europe to Asia |
| Why would rulers build elaborate palaces | 1. To show a rulers legitimacy and power 2. Keep bureaucrats in check |
| Montesquieu | 3 branches of gov |
| What documents would Montesquieu influence | US constitution and the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen. |
| What were the ideas of John Locke? | Governments should have a social construct with the people and the people should be able to revolt if the gov breaks this social construct |
| Who wrote The Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith, he advocated for liazzez-fare capitalism |
| Who wrote The Jamaica Letter? | Simon Bolivar, he described what was wrong with mercantilism. His ideas would go on to influence the Creoles as a class of people |
| What group of people got civil liberties after revolutions due to enlighnment? | White male property owners |
| Why would factories have smoke be billowing from them | the burning of fuel (coal) to power steam engines |
| why were women and children preferred as factory workers | owners thought of them as cheap, manegable, and less likely to go on strike |
| What were the new social classes that were created alongside industrialization | the working class (blue collar, proletariat) and the middle class will expand (white-collar, bourgeosise) |
| How does life get better for the working class? | Gov regulates the work place (factory act of 1833 rregulates child labor) |
| What does the second industrial revolution bring about | Chemical, steel, electricity |
| Robert owens | Utopian socialist |
| What two figures collaborated to come up with an alternative version to society | Karl Marx and Fredriech Engel, Communism: Revolution would be needed to destroy capitalism |
| Why was the balance of offset in Europe after the Congress of Viena | Rise of nationalism in Italy and Germany, Germans united and industrialized to compete with Great Britan |
| 1st non western state to industrialize by 1900 | Japan, underwent a full political revolution. Shown by their victory over China and Russia |
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