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AP World History Vocabulary Guide to Unit ONE (chapters 1-9) Artifacts Hominids Paleolithic Age Neolithic Revolution Slash-and-burn farming Hunters and gatherers Domestication Characteristics of a civilization Cuneiform Bronze Age Ziggurat Fertile Crescent Mesopotamia Indus Valley Yellow River Valley, China Egypt (3 kingdoms) Polytheism Cultural diffusion Sumerians/Akkadians Hammurabi’s Code Theocracy Pyramid Narmer Hieroglyphics Monsoons Harappan civilization Loess Oracle bones Feudalism (china) Mandate of Heaven Indo-Europeans Hittites Anatolia Aryans Vedas Caste system in India Mahabharata Hinduism Buddhism Jainism Reincarnation Karma Enlightenment Moksha Nirvana Minoans Epic of Gilgamesh Phoenicians Judaism Torah Abraham Palestine Canaan Moses Monotheism Covenant 10 Commandments Israel Hyksos Nubian Empire Hatshepsut Thutmose III Ramses II Kush Meroe Assyrians Sennacherib Chaldeans Nineveh Ashurbanipal Persian Empire Cyrus Cambyses Darius Royal Road (Persia) Zoroaster Confucius Filial piety Bureaucracy Daoism Legalism Yin yang Shi Huanghi Great wall of China Autocracy Chinese dynasties in order Mycenaeans Trojan War Epics of Homer Polis Oligarchy Acropolis Phalanx Persian wars (Thermopylae, Salamis, Marathon) Pericles Direct democracy (Greece) Peloponnesian War Tragedy/comedy Greek philosophers Macedonia (Philip) Alexander the Great Hellenistic culture Euclid Archimedes Stoicism Epicureanism Roman Republic Patricians/Plebians Twelve tables (Roman law) Punic Wars/Hannibal Triumvirate Julius Caesar Augustus/Pax Romana Christianity/Jesus/apostles Peter/bishop/pope Mercenaries Diocletian Constantine/Constantinople Sack of Rome Attila the Huns Visigoths/Ostrogoths/etc. Greco-Roman culture Aquaducts Mauryan Empire Asoka Gupta Empire Silk roads Han Dynasty Monopoly Assimilation Sahara/sahel Animism Nok Djenne-Djeno Bantu speaking people Migration Axum (Aksum) Terraces Ice age Mesoamerica Olmec/Zapotec AP World History Vocabulary Guide to Unit TWO (chapters 10-15) Islam/Muslims Abrahamic religions Muhammad Allah Mecca Hajj Qur’an Sunna Shari’a Caliph Sunnis V. Shiites Sufi Umayyads Abbasids al-Andalus Fatimid House of Wisdom Calligraphy Justinian (Code) Hagia Sophia Byzantine Empire Church splits (icons) Cyrillic alphabet Slavs/Kiev Vladimir Yaroslav the Wise Mongol invasions Czar Alexander Nevsky Seljuk Turks Malik Shah Tang Dynasty Tang Taizong Wu Zhao Song Dynasty Moveable type Gentry Mongol conquests Genghis Khan Kublai Khan Khanates Mongol Peace (Pax Mongolica) Mongols fail to control Japan Marco Polo Shintoism Feudalism in Japan (Bushido, Samurai, Shogun) Khmer Empire Angkor Wat Koryu Dynasty Middle Ages in Europe Charlemagne Franks (Frankish Kingdoms) Charles Martel Carolingian Empire Feudalism in Europe (fief, etc.) Magyars/Muslims/Vikin gs Manorialism Tithe Chivalry Holy Roman Empire (HRE) 7 sacraments (Catholic Church) Lay investiture Concordat of Worms Pope Urban II (called Crusades) Gothic architecture Crusades Saladin Richard the LionHearted Spanish reconquista Inquisition 3-field system Craft Guilds Vernacular Thomas Aquinas (scholasticism) William the Conqueror Magna Carta Common law Parliament Hugh Capet (Capetian empire) Philip II Estates-General (France) 100 Years War Joan of Arc/Longbow Great Schism/Pope in Avignon Jan Hus/John Wycliffe Bubonic Plague Stateless societies Lineage Patrilineal/matrilineal Maghrib Islamic law (shari’a) Almoravid/Almohad reformers Ghana Mali Sundiata Mansa Musa Ibn Battuta Songhai Hausa Yoruba Benin Swahili Kilwa Great Zimbabwe Mutapa AP World History Vocabulary Guide to Unit THREE (chapters 16-21) Anasazi Moundbuilders Maya Aztecs Tenochtitlan Montezuma II Inca Pachacuti Renaissance Humanism Secularism Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Machiavelli’s The Prince Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly Thomas More’s Utopia Johann Gutenberg (printing press) Protestant Reformation Martin Luther (faith alone) Indulgences Protestantism Peace of Augsburg Henry VIII (Anglican) Church of England John Calvin (predestination) Anabaptists/Presbyterian s Catholic Counter Reformation Jesuits (Ignatius of Loyola) Council of Trent Ottoman Empire Sultan Take over Byzantine Empire Timu the Lame Mehmed II Constantinople = Istanbul Suleyman the Lawgiver Janissaries Safavid Empire Isma’il Shah Abbas (shah) Mughal Empire Babur Sikhs Shah Jahan Taj Mahal Aurangzeb God, Glory, and Gold! European Explorers Portugal starts the exploration Henry the Navigator Bartolomeu Dias Vasco de Gama Christopher Columbus Vasco Nunez de Balboa Ferdindand Magellan Zheng He Hernando Cortes Francisco Pizarro Tools of Exploration on the seas Treaty of Torsedillas Dutch East India Company Ming Dynasty Hongwu Yonglo Manchus Qing Dynasty Kangxi Chinese isolation (Manchus) Daimyo Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Shogunate Haiku Christian missionaries in Japan Japan moves to isolation Spanish Empire building Conquistadors Mestizo Encomienda system African slave trade Columbian Exchange Middle Passage Triangular trade Capitalism Joint-stock company Mercantilism/favorable balance of trade Absolutism (theory and causes) El Greco Velazquez Don Quixote Dutch revolt against Spanish Edict of Nantes Cardinal Richelieu Louis XIV War of Spanish Succession Thirty Year’s War Maria Theresa Frederick the Great Seven Year’s War Ivan the Terrible Peter the Great