200871796 | advent | The arrival of something that has been awaited OR (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment | 0 | |
200871797 | transmission | the act of sending a message (trans means moving) | 1 | |
200871798 | pantheon | (antiquity) a temple to all the gods OR a group of gods themselves | 2 | |
200871799 | attest | authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity | 3 | |
200871800 | relegating | authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions; giving power to those under you | 4 | |
200871801 | subordinate | rank or order as less important or consider of less value | 5 | |
200871802 | reveneration | the respect towards elderly people in societies (same as veneration) | 6 | |
200871803 | Akkadians | this civilization included Semitic people living north of Sumeria; united city-states of Mesopotamia; first empire in history; established by Sargon the Great | 7 | |
200871804 | Assyrians | Known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the way to centeral Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and swords, tunnels, and fearful military tactics to gain strength in their empire | 8 | |
200871805 | Sudan | a region of northern Africa south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts | 9 | |
200871806 | ziggurats | Sumerian temples made of sun-dried brick | 10 | |
200871807 | cunneiform | a system of writing that used wedge shaped symbols to represent sounds ideas and objects;developed by ancient Sumerians | 11 | |
200871808 | Mesolithic | of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic) about 15,000 years ago | 12 |
AP World Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards
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