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AP world history chapter 1 Flashcards

From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations

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196727895Neolithic RevolutionThis social revolution was also known as the New Stone Age where people changed from hunting and gathering food to domesticating animals and cultivating land as farmers.1
1967278964 River Valley CivilizationsMesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates), India (Indus and Ganges), China (Yellow and Yangtze), Egypt (Nile)2
196727897What makes a civilization?economy, surplus of food, language, religion, government, arts3
196727898Catal Huyukfounded in present-day Turkey in 7000 B.C.E.4
196727899cuneiform1st form of writing developed by Sumerians (Mesopotamia), used to keep records, taxes, and make contracts.5
196727900hieroglyphicsEgyptian writing6
196727901Phoenicansdeveloped 22 character alphabet, had the colony of Carthage in the Mediterranean Sea and fought Punic Wars with Rome7
196727902zigguratsused by Mesopotamians for trade, religion, shrines (tigris-euphrates)8
196727903ethnocentrismbelief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group9
196727904Egyptian-Nile civilizationNile was source of water, polytheism, developed calendar, irrigation, geometry, 24-hour day, pharoahs, pyramids, hieroglyphics10
196727905Indus River civilizationMohenjo Daro Harrapa- had plumbing, sanitation, was built on grid11
196727906Tigris-Euphrates civilizationfirst civilization, called Mesopotamia, invaded by Sumerians, had governments, ziggurats, cuneiform12
196727907Huanghe civilizationunpredictable flooding because of mountain sources, most isolated from other cultures13
196727908polytheisticmany gods14
196727909monotheisticGod. Monotheism is omniscient, all-knowing, abstract. creates morality in worshipers.15
196727910Judaismfirst monotheistic religion16
196727911Hunter-gathering societyadapted to surroundings, gathered food, domesticated animals for food, supported less people than agricultural based, less permanent, word-of-mouth17
196727912origins of civilization3500 B.C.E.18
196727913agricultural societymore permanent, irrigation systems, defense systems, domesticated animals for agriculture19
196727914order of civilizations1 tigris euphrates (mesopotamia) 2 egypt (nile) 3 indus river20

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