AP World History Modern Semester Review

Persian influence: administrative techniques, ideas of kingship, Persian language (used in literature) poetry, political thought: The Arabian nights

• Influence on Hinduism

• Influence on Buddhism

• Influence on Sikhism

• Influence on Islam

640s c.e. they conquered Byzantine Egypt and North Africa

By 718, they controlled Hindu India, northwestern Africa and Iberian peninsula (Spain)

• Expansion of Islam

• Expansion of Roman Empire

• Expansion of Byzantine Empire

• Expansion of the Holy Roman Empire

Political and social order of medieval Europe; based on a hierarchy of lords and vassals who controlled political and military affairs

• Manoralism

• Feudalism

• Imperialism

• Communism

Society located in present-day Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador

• Maya

• Aztec

• Olmec

• Tultec

Built ceremonial centers in cities, included pyramids, palaces and temples. Larger centers included Palenque, Chichen Itza, and Tikal

• Aztec

• Maya

• Inca

• Olmec

Established an empire based on military conquest in modern-day Peru to Chile

• Maya

• Actec

• Inca

• Olmec

A large estate consisting of fields, meadows, forest, domestic animals, lakes, rivers, and serfs bound to the land used during medieval Europe.

• Manors

• Mansions

• Castles

• Palace

Golden Horde overran Russia (1237-1241) and also explored Poland, Hungary and eastern Germany. Which empire is this?

• Roman

• Islamic (Ottomans)

• Mongol

• Napoleon's Empire

In 1453, the ________ Turks, nomads from central Asia, captured the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul; Ottoman control continued until the 20^th century

• Seljuk

• huns

• Beyliks

• Ottomans

As Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520-1566, he expanded the empire into southern Europe and created efficient centralized bureaucracy

• Osman I

• Mehmed II

• Suleyman the Magnificent

• Murad II