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Unit 2 Test Review
AP World History
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History
9th Grade
11/04/2007

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What religion was the most prominent faith of all silk road merchants from 200 BCE to 700 CE?
Definition
Buddhism
Term
During the post classical era, what was the most popular religious faith throughout all of east Asia?
Definition
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During the early centuries CE, why did the Roman authorities launch a series of campaigns to stamp out Christianity?
Definition

Christians refused to worship emporer gods. Christians were viewed as a threat.

Term
What two populations declined sharply as a result of disease?
Definition
Chinese, Roman
Term
What was one result of the population decline caused by disease?
Definition
the decline of the silk roads
Term
What internal problem was partly resoponsible for the fall of the Han Dynasty?
Definition
generals upsurped political authority
Term
What group of people migrated to China after the Han dynasty disappeared?
Definition
nomads
Term
Why did Confucianism decline with teh collapse of the Han dynasty?
Definition
It was no loger relevant; there was no need for it when there were less divisions in classes
Term
Why did Daoism attract widespread interest after the collapse of th eHan Dynasty?
Definition
Daoism offered a way to find peace in a turbulent world.
Term
What did the Roman Emperor Diocletian do to solve the problem of managing a vast empire?
Definition
he divided it into 2 administrative districts
Term
During the late Roman Empire, a hierarchy was established in Christianity, including the Bishop of Rome which was later known by what title?
Definition
The Pope
Term
When the Roman Empire was divided in the 5th century BCE,did  the Byzantine Empire grow out of the Eastern or Western Roman Empire?
Definition
Eastern
Term
Which of the following regions was NOT included in the Byzantine Empire?
Gaul
Greece
Anatolia
Palestine
Egypt
Definition
Gaul
Term
What was the name of the first Christian Byzantine Emperor?
Definition
Constantine
Term

The 6th century Byzantine rulers were known for their "lofty stauts" and lavish ceremony. Give one example.

Definition

the Emperors stood above the law
had lavish homes

Term
What is the Hagia Sophia
Definition
a huge church
Term

The Emperor Justinian's most significant political contribution was the "corpus juris civilis." What is it?

Definition

body of civil law used as Roman law

Term
During the 7th and 8th centuries, what was Byzantine's most serius challenge or threat?
Definition
eastern and western invasions
Term
Why was Byzantine's economy and society the strongest when the empire supported a large class of free peasants who owned small plots of land?
Definition
served as backbone of the Byzantine military system and cultivated their land intensively in hope of improving their families' fortunes.
Term
After the 6th century, what language replaced Latin as the language of government in the Byzantine Empire?
Definition
Greek
Term
Constantine initiated a policy of Caesaropapism. What is it?
Definition

the emperor is not only th esecular lord, but played an active/prominent role in ecclesiatical affairs.

Term
Byzantine emperor Leo 3rd implemented a policy of iconoclasm. What is it?
Definition
the destroying of religious icons bc of a belief that they are sinful.
Term
Describe the religious tension that existed btw Constantinople and Rome during the 8th and 9th centuries. Be specific in describing the difference.
Definition
There was religious tension between them because of different beliefs. For ex: a contrast in the belief whether Jesus of Nazarath was divine, human, or both.
Term
The decline of the Byzantine Empire occured after teh loss of ____, the pricipal source of Byzantine grain, wealth, and military forces.
Definition

Anatolia

Term

The Tang implemented three policies that helped maintain centralized imperial rule. What were they?

Definition
well articulated transportation and communications vetwork, distribution of land according to the principals of t heequal-field system, adn reliance on a bureaucracy based on merit.
Term

describe how the first Song emperor, Song Taizu, organized his administration

Definition

He implemented a policy that mistrusted military leaders and placed much more emphasis on civil administration, industry, education, and the arts.He regarded all state officials as servants of the imperial government and rewarded them handsomely.

Term

When the Tang dynasty ventured into Vietnam, what major discovery brougt about a series of events leading to major commercial expansion?

Definition
a form of quickly growing rice
Term
Give one example of how commercial expansion impacted China.
Definition
it brought about urbanization and populaton growth.
Term
Provide one example of the tightening of the partriarchal social structure in Tang-Song China.
Definition
foot binding
Term
What facilitated the growth of Buddhism in China?
Definition
Buddhism came to China over silk roads. was attractive because of morals
Term
What is neo-Confucianism?
Definition
Confucianism that was influenced by Buddhists.
Term

What were some technological invention of the Tang and Song dynasties?

Definition
porcelain, metallurgy, gunpowder, printing, magnetic compass
Term
In spite of Chinese influence in Vietnam, Vietnam differed from China in many ways. What was one of these?
Definition
women played a more prominent role in society adn economy,
Term
Descrive th erole of emperors in Japan during the Heian period.
Definition

Japanese emperors during the Heian period differed from the political structure of Medieval Japan bc MJ was fuedalistic. Ashoka led rebellion.

Term

Theodosius

Definition
proclaimed Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Term
Tetrarchs
Definition

the four officials who aided the co-emperor and were able to administer the vast empire more effectively than an individual emperor could.

Term
Chang’an
Definition
major city of the Han dynasty- officials allowed Buddhists to observe their faith in the enclaves that officials allowed them to inhabit.  
Term
Diocletian
Definition
the emperor that attempted to deal with the problem of an unmanageable empire by dividing it into two administrative districts.  
Term
Zhang Qian
Definition
envoy sent on a mission to find allies who could help combat the nomadic Ziongnu. Brought back info of immense commercial value
Term
Attila
Definition
Hun leader that did not create a set of political institutions or a state structure.  
Term
St. Augustine
Definition

the most important and influential of intellectual elites, the bishop of Hippo. Converted to Christianity and worked to reconcile it with Greek and Roman philosophical traditions and to articulate Christianity in terms familiar and persuasive to educated classes.

Term
Alaric
Definition
Visigoth leader who stormed and sacked Rome in 410 CE.
Term
Nestorians
Definition
followers of Nestorius who spread their faith east across the silk roads.  
Term
Edict of Milan
Definition

Constantine promulgated the Edict of Milan, which allowed Christians to practice their faith openly in the Roman Empire.

 
Term
Manichaeism
Definition

the faith derived from the prophet Mani that promoted an ascetic lifestyle and insisted that disciples observe high ethical standards.

Term
Constantine
Definition

son of Diocletian’s coruler Constantius. Able emperor who faced the same administrative difficulties that Diocletian had attempted to solve.

Term

Constantine

Definition

son of Diocletian’s coruler Constantius. Able emperor who faced the same administrative difficulties that Diocletian had attempted to solve.

Term
Monsoons
Definition
winds that governed sailing and shipping in the Indian Ocean- knowledge of the winds in Ptolemaic Egypt enabled mariners to sail safely and reliably to all parts of the Indian Ocean basin.  
Term
Epidemic diseases
Definition

during second and third cen. CE the Han and Roman empires suffered large-scale outbreaks of epidemic disease.

Term
Bubonic plague
Definition
one of the most destructive of the epidemic diseases among small pox and measles.  
Term
Council of Nicaea
Definition
council where bishops assembled to determine which views would prevail as official doctrine.  
Term
Council of Chalcedon
Definition
council where bishops assembled to determine which views would prevail as official doctrine.  
Term
Nestorius
Definition
Greek theologian who lived during the early fifth century and emphasized the human as opposed
Term
Attila the Hun
Definition

warrior-king that organized the Huns into a virtually unstoppable military juggernaut.

Term
Mani
Definition

a devout Zoroastrian from Babylon who saw a need for a prophet for all humanity and promoted a blend of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Buddhist elements as a religious faith.

 
Term
silk roads
Definition
the network of trade routes that linked lands as distant as China and the Roman Empire- adn more generally to th eestablishment of relations between China and lands to th ewest.
Term
during the classical era, two developments reduced the risks associated with travel and stimulated long-distance trade. What were they?
Definition

1. rulers invested heavily in t heconstruction of roads adn bridges

2. They built large imperial states that sometimes expanded to th epoint that they bordered on one another.

Term
Ptolemies maintained land routes going south from Egypt to th ekingdom of ____ and ______ in east africa
Definition
Nubia adn Meroe
Term
____ was the Ptolemies most important port on the Red Sea
Definition
Berenice
Term
_____ served as their (Ptolemies) principal window on the Mediterranean.
Definition
Alexandria
Term
What was the extent of the silk roads?
Definition

took caravan trade from China to th eRoman empire

Chang'an East

West to Atioch and Tyre

Term
What desert was one of the most dangerous and inhospitable regions with a name literally meaning "he who enters does not come back out"
Definition
Taklamakan
Term

what goods generally traveled west from producers in southeast Asia, China, and India to consumers in central Asia, Iran, Arabia, and the Roman Empire?

Definition
silk adn spices
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