AP World History Exam 2 Latest -

AP World History Exam 2 (Latest - Actual Questions and Answers 100% Correct

• Peloponnesian War

Answer: between Athens and Sparta (peloponnesian league and delian league). A

plague and defeat at Syracuse weakens Athens, but Sparta doesnt destroy them out of respect. This made sparta more vulnerable to outside aggression.

• Alexander the Great

Answer: conquered the Persian empire. Divided territory into three realms: Antigonid, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid. Hellenism thrived even though it wasnt a native greek ruler. Economies were revived through trade. Empire crubled after Alexander the Great and the romans rose.

• Ancient Rome

Answer: Geographically isolated - protected from outsiders. Also at a crossroad so it was a perfect location for trade. Social structure comprised of patricians (land owning nobles), plebians (everyone else), and slaves. Government made up of the Senate and the Assembly. Were a republic instead of a democracy, so the people elected representatives instead of voting on everything. Used two consuls. Law code = Twelve Tables of Rome . Centered on pater familias - eldest males in the family.

• Punic Wars

Answer: battled Carthage in North Africa. There were three wars: the first fought for control of sicily - Roman victory. Second - Hannibal ambushed the romans from the north. But hannibal had to retreat back to carthage relatively quickly. Third

• Rome invaded Carthage and burned it to the ground.

• First Triumverate

Answer: pompey, Crasses and Caesar. Caesar conquered Gaul and other parts of

Europe - but NOT germany. War led to Caesar pushing pompey and crassus out of the picture and becoming emperor for life.

• Second Triumverate

Answer: After Caesar's death, the government began to be led by Ocatavius, Marc

Anthony, and Lepidus. Octavius achieves dominance and took the name Augustus Caesar (emperor). Stability returned to Rome (known as the period of Pax Romana).Roman empire expands farther than ever before. Growth of arts, sciences, etc.Ptomlemy lived during this time

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• Religion in Ancient Rome

Answer: Paganism = state religion. Had to make sacrifices to Roman gods. But after Augustus, Christianity became popular. Both Judaism and Christianity were tolorated by the romans until Nero began persecuting christians. Emperor Constatntine ussued the edict of Milan to end the persecution and Chris- tianity becomes the official religion of the Roman empire.

• Christianity

Answer: grew out of Judaism.

• Collpase of the Maya

Answer: Nobody knows why - but they began to desert their cities in the ninth

century.

• Collapse of the Han Dynasty

Answer: want mang established the Xin Dynasty. He tried to improve China, but he ended up just making everything worse. Attempted reforms and war on the edges of the empore along with the devastation due to the flooding of the yellow river make the Xin Dynasty die as well. the han dynasty was once again restored but the government had gone through too much and just collapsed.

• collapse of the gupta empire

Answer: Huns invaded India, and the empire slowly lost more and more influence to these Huns

• collapse of the Western portion of the Roman empire

Answer: combination of inter- nal decay, external pressure, the sheer size of the empire, and the succession of a few weak leaders, led the empire to collapse.Diocletian tried to divide the empire, which just led to civil war. Constantine tried to move the capital to constantinople but he struggled with the economy and external pressite. The the Visigoths and the Huns (led by Attila) began to press on the roman empire. the visigoths sacked rome in 41- and by 476 the roman emperor had been deposed. the fall of the western hald of the roman empire was complete. the eastern half would survive, but not as the roman empire. it became the byzantine empire.

• Daoism

Answer: based in china. Founded by Lao-tzu. The Dao is "the way" of nature, or "the way" one should behave. it is passive. the ultimate goal is to achieve harmony with nature. the counterbalanced active chinese confucianism. but it was still able to coexist with confucianism, bhuddism, and legalism.

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