AP World History: Vocabulary Fall Semester

Chapter 1Big GeographyOut of Africa TheoryIce AgePaleolithic AgeMesolithic AgeNeolithic AgeNeolithic RevolutionprehistoricCatal HuyukcivilizationartisanmetallurgyTigris-Euphrates CivilizationSumeriansCode of Ur-NammuEgyptians

NubiaHarappan Civilizationnomadsforaging societieshunter-foragershunter-gathererspastoral societies/pastoralismagrarian/agrarianismcomposite bowBronze AgeCuneiformMesopotamiacity-statezigguratBabyloniansHammurabi/Code of Hammurabi

pharaohpyramidshieroglyphspictographsKushHarappa & Mohenjo-DaroShang Dynastyideographic writingPhoenicians/PhoeniciaalphabetHebrews (Jews)monotheismJudaismHebrew ScripturesIndo-EuropeansHittites

Chapter 2Middle KingdomShang DynastyZhou DynastyMandate of HeavenLaozi/DaoismConfucius (Kong Fuzi) /Confucianism Analectsfilial piety

ancestor venerationFive ClassicspatriarchalismLegalismWarring States PeriodQin DynastyShi HuangdiGreat Wall

Han DynastyWudi (Wu Ti)mandarinsSilk Roadgentry/scholar gentryxiongnu

Chapter 3monsoon/monsoon windsAryansSanskritVedasVedic ReligionMahabharataRamayanaUpanishadsmonism /monisticvarna (you should know them)jatiuntouchables

IndraMauryansChandragupta MauryaKautilya/ArthasastraAsoka/AshokaPataliputradharmaKushansGuptasHuns/White Hunsgurubrahman

Brahma,Vishnu,Shivadharmareincarnationcaste systemBuddha (Siddhartha Gautama)BuddhismnirvanastupamonasticismTamils

Chapter 4Persia (Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanian)PersepolisZoroastrianismqanatnoria, sakiashadufPersian WarsPericlesAthensPeloponnesian WarsPhilip II (of Macedon)Alexander the GreatHellenistic PeriodAlexandria

polisdirect democracySocrates Plato AristotleStoicsIliad &OdysseyDoric, Ionic, CorinthianHerodotusrepublicPunic WarsCarthageRomeJulius CaesarAugustus Caesar

DiocletianConstantineGermanic tribesEdict of MilanSenateconsulsCiceroTwelve TablesVirgil AeneidGreco-Roman (philosophy, art, architecture)SocratesPlato/RationalismAristotle/Empiricism

Chapter 5Axum ShintoismOlmecsTeotihuacanMayaMaya city-states (Copan, Tikal, Palenque)Chavin

IncaPolynesianAugustineCoptic ChristianitysyncretismbodhisattvasMahayanaJesus

Paulanimism

Chapter 6BedouinshaykhsMeccaUmayyadKa’ba (Kaaba)MedinaQu’ranMuhammadKhadijahAliumma

zakatfive pillarsRamadanhajjcaliphjihadNestoriansSunnisShi’aKarbalaDamascus

jizyadhimmiHadithsAbbasidsBaghdaddhowsakkHijramosqueBerbers

Chapter 7Sogdian merchantsHarun al-RashidSeljuk TurksCrusadesIbn KhaldunulamaSufis

MongolsChinggis KhanHuleguMamluksMahmud of Ghazni/Ghaznavids Muhammad of Ghur/GhuridsDelhi/Delhi Sultanate

Malacca (Melaka)Dar-al-IslamAl-Andalus/Muslim IberiaIslamic agricultural revolutionbhaktic cults/bhakti movementShrivijaya

Chapter 8EthiopiaCoptsSahelSudanic StatesGhanaMaliSundiata

Mansa MusagriotsIbn BattutaTimbuktuSonghay (Songhai)Sharia

Swahili/Swahili city states Mogadishu, Mombasa, Malindi, Kilwa, Zanzibar, SofalaBantu/Bantu migrationBeninKongoGreat Zimbabwe

Chapter 9ConstantinopleJustinianHagia SophiaBulgaria

iconsBattle of ManzikertCyril and MethodiusKiev

Russian OrthodoxyboyarsTatarsNovgorod

Chapter 10Middle AgesVikingslongshipmanorialismSerfs/serfdommoldboard plowthree-field systemCarolingiansCharles MartelCharlemagneHoly Roman Empirefeudalism

vassalsCapetiansWilliam the ConquerorMagna CartaParliamentHundred Years’ WarEstates GeneralHorse collartwo-field to three field systemCrusadesinvestitureThomas Aquinas

scholasticismHanseatic Leagueguildsbubonic plagueBlack DeathRomanesqueGothicBattle of Tours/PoitiersVeniceLittle Ice Age

Chapter 11MesoamericaToltecsAztecs/MexicoQuetzalcoatlTenochtitlanTlalocHuitzilopochtlichinampas

pochtecacalpulliInca/Twantinsuyumitaquipu (khipu)ayllusCuzcoQuechua

waru waruterracingchinampasChaco/PuebloMississippi River Valley, Cahokia

Chapter 12HangzhouSui DynastyChang’anPure landChan BuddhismZen BuddhismTang Taizong

Zhu Xineo-ConfucianismTangut, Xi Xia, JurchensSouthern SongGrand Canaljunksflying money

porcelainfootbindingXuanzang/Journey to the Westtribute/tributary systemschampa rice

Chapter 13Taika ReformsThe Tale of GenjiNaraHeiansamurai

shogunsKamakuraAshikagadaimyosSilla

SinificationKhmersTrung sisters

Chapter 14Chinggis Khan (Genghis Khan)kuriltaikhaganKarakorumGolden Hordekhanates

Prester JohnKubilai KhanChabiYuan AdynastyTimur-i Lane/Amur Timur/Tamerlane

Ming DynastyNestoriansshamanistic religionIlkhan khanatecaravanseraiMarco Polo

Chapter 15Ibn Rushd (Averroes)Zheng HeRenaissancePetrarchVasco da Gama

CalicutHenry the Navigatorcredit, bill of exchange, checkbanking housesethnocentrism

Castile and AragonPolynesian migrationastrolabecaravel, carrack, fluyt

Chapter 16world economyChristopher ColumbusFerdinand Magellanjoint stock companies—ex. Dutch East India Company, British East India CompanyColumbian Exchange

maniocLepantocore nationsdependent economic zonesmercantilismNorthwest Passasgemestizos

Francisco PizarroSeven Years WarTreaty of ParisCape ColonyBoersCalcutta

Chapter 17Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince)humanismNorthern RenaissanceFrancis IJohannes GutenbergReformationMartin LutherProtestantismAnglican ChurchJean (John) CalvinCatholic/Counter Reformation

JesuitsEdict of NantesThirty Years WarTreaty of WestphaliaEnglish Civil WarCopernicuswitchcraft persecutionScientific RevolutionGalileoIsaac NewtonDeism

John Lockeabsolute monarchydivine rightLouis XIVVersaillesGlorious Revolutionparliamentary monarchyFrederick the Great EnlightenmentAdam SmithMary Wollstonecraft

Chapter 18Ivan III (the Great), Ivan IV (the Terrible)CossacksTime of Troubles

RomanovsPeter I (the Great)Catherine II (the Great)Partition of Poland

Third RomeSt. Petersburg

Chapter 19Ferdinand of Aragon & Isabella of Castileencomiendas/encomenderosHispaniolaBartolome de las CasasHernan CortesMoctezuma IIColumbian ExchangePotosiHuancavelica

haciendasgalleonsTreaty of TordesillasCouncil of the IndiesviceroyaltiesMinas GeraisRio de Janeiropeninsularescreolesmulatto

War of the Spanish SuccessionMarquis of PombalCommunero RevoltTupac Amarusmallpox, measles, influenzaRepublica de Indioschattel slaverycorvée laborindentured servitudeplantation economy

Chapter 20triangular trade (Atlantic system)AsanteasanteheneDahomey

Great TrekZuluShakaMiddle Passage

candomblevodunWilliam Wilberforce

Chapter 21OttomansMehmed IIJanissaries & the devshirmevizierSulieman (Suleyman) the MagnificentSuleymaniye mosque

SafavidsshahimamsmullahsIsfahanMughalsAkbar the Great

Din-i-IlahisatiTaj MahalMarattasSikhs/Sikhismzamindars

Chapter 22caravelAsian sea trading networktrading-post empireOrmuzGoaBatavia

Dutch trading empirescholar-gentryMacaoCantonZheng HeNobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Tokugawa IeyasuEdosalaried samuraiDeshimaSchool of National LearningManchu

long-distance trade routes: Silks Roads Trans-Saharan caravan routes Indian Ocean sea lanes Mediterranean sea lanes Indian Ocean basin sea lanesAndean South AmericaTurkic migrationSouthernizationGunpowder Empires