AP WORLD STUDY GUIDE UNIT 1 Chapter 1 Before Civilization Around 10‚000 years ago‚ during the Neolithic Age‚ humans began to cultivate plants and to domesticate animals in various parts of the world. Climate change is probably the major reason for the switch from food gathering to food production. Although farming is often harder than hunting and gathering‚ agriculturalists‚ because of their capacity to increase their population‚ expanded across much of the planet at the expense of hunter-gatherers
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the Sui Dynasty‚ remarks its significance with its accomplishments within such a short period of time. By the end of China’s northern and southern dynasties (386-589 C.E.)‚ the nation was left unified. In 581‚ Yang Jian‚ a prime minister of northern Zhou Dynasty‚ replaced the dynasty with Sui and appointed himself Emperor Wen. Therefore‚ Yang Jian’s replacement marked the beginning of the Sui Dynasty. Many historians and students claim that the Sui Dynasty was not a significant dynasty due to only
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Tushita Heaven Four Encounters Four Noble Truths Law of Dependent Origination The Middle-path Sunyata (Emptiness) Boccacio’s Decameron Flagellants Pogroms against Jews Fatwas against Flight and Isolation Ibn al-Khatib Ibn al-Wardi Duke of Zhou Rituals in the State of Lu The Analects “School of Learners” or Rujia Confucian Gentleman or Junzi Five Relations Xunzi vs. Mencius Banzhao Legalism Varna system (Brahmins‚ Kshatriyas‚ Vaishyas‚ Shudras) Upanishads Brahman vs. Atman
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The benefits of vaccination outweigh the risk The world human population is consistently under threat from potentially fatal infections and disease outbreaks that cause death‚ intense suffering and fear. Since time began‚ the world has experienced large-scale epidemics‚ such as the 1918 flu pandemic that caused heavy loss of human lives. Currently‚ flu pandemics continue recurring in different parts of the world‚ while HIV/AIDS remains one of the most serious infections with no cure. Discovery of
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Analyze similarities and differences in methods of political control in the following empires in the classical period. Han China (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) Mauryan/Gupta India (320 B.C.E.-550 C.E.) During the Classical period‚ Han China and Mauryan/Gupta India developed many methods of political control. Although these empires were located in different geographic regions‚ they both used social hierarchy‚ language‚ bureaucracy‚ and religion as a means of political control. Many of Classical
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The idea of justice is one applicable to various facets of life due to the possibility of conflict that exists in the space of interpersonal interactions. Modern society allocates the task of making these decisions to the criminal justice system‚ which is thereby the primary destination when seeking fairness and equality in justice. However‚ the reality is less than ideal since here are various elements that can curtail the delivery of equal justice‚ such as racial and socioeconomic backgrounds among
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China is a country that has been shaped overtime by many diverse and wide-ranging principles. Religion has served as one of the most powerful examples of these principles‚ specifically the three teachings‚ Daoism‚ Confucianism‚ and Buddhism. Daoism and Confucianism‚ which were both founded in China hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ‚ appear to approach the fundamentals of religion in the same fashion. Since Confucius and Laozi don’t directly address the question of God or an afterlife
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entire China. After the Zhou dynasty fell apart in 256 BCE‚ the states of China fought over power again‚ and out of them‚ the Qin rose victorious. Their leader‚ King Cheng (or Zheng)‚ unified the entire China for the first time in Chinese history and created the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE. Cheng renamed himself Qin Shi Huangdi‚ which means “The First Emperor”. It was through Qin Shi Huangdi’s leadership that make him one of the most influential figures in history. After the Zhou dynasty fell‚ the Chinese
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Empress Wu Zetian China is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world today. Out of its two thousand years of existence‚ and two hundred and forty-three emperors from the eleven major dynasties only one woman has ever ruled China. This would be Empress Wu Zetian who’s cunning‚ malicious‚ and devious behavior would lead her to commit unthinkable acts against others as she tried to rise above her statues of a mar woman and sit on the dragon throne of China. The future Empress
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The Shang Dynasty was an empire that had its capital located at the Ruins of Yin near the Yellow River‚ or present day Anyang in China. North China Plain was also the former location of the first dynasty known as the Xia and of the Zhou Dynasty‚ succeeding the Shang. There’s a controversy relating to its chronology‚ which varies from 1600 to 1046 BCE according to the Bamboo Annals and Records of the Grand Historian texts (1). They had a complex political structure through social hierarchy with the
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