study Guide for Ap World History Midter.
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| 12331882332 | civilization | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced. | 0 | |
| 12331882333 | culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. | 1 | |
| 12331882334 | history | The study of past events, particularly in human affairs. | 2 | |
| 12331882335 | stone Age | The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age | 3 | |
| 12331882336 | Paleolithic | relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age | 4 | |
| 12331882337 | Neolithic Revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution. | 5 | |
| 12331882338 | Babylon | The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29) | 6 | |
| 12331882339 | Summerians | The first people to build cities and invent legal system, justice code, weapons, writing. Members of the non-semitic people of Ancient Babylon | 7 | |
| 12331882340 | Hieroglyphics | An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 8 | |
| 12331882341 | Hammurabi | Sixth king of the First Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. | 9 | |
| 12331882342 | Pharaoh | A ruler of ancient Egypt | 10 | |
| 12331882343 | Karma | The belief that actions in this life, whether good or bad, will decide your place in the next life. Hindu concept that believes that the sum of a person's actions (good or bad) in this or in previous life will be the deciding factor of their fate (status) in future existences or life. that the sum of good and bad in a person's life will determine his or her status in the next life. | 11 | |
| 12331882344 | Harrapa | A civilization along the Indus River estblished around 7,000 BCE. This city consisted of over 5,000 square miles. | 12 | |
| 12331882345 | Mohenjo-Daro | Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large-scale implies central planning. | 13 | |
| 12331882346 | Satrap | A governor of a province in ancient Persia that ruled over a province (is a region within a country). | 14 | |
| 12331882347 | Hoplite | Heavily armored foot soldier of ancient Greece armed like a tank of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. | 15 | |
| 12331882348 | Democracy | A type of government that is runned by its people where their voice has say in everything as the people are the ones that elected the people of power the representatives and presidents (the type of government that the U.S has). | 16 | |
| 12331882349 | Polis | A city-state in ancient Greece. | 17 | |
| 12331895722 | Jesus of Nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth | 18 | |
| 12332043185 | Aristotle | A Greek Philosopher, taught Alexander the Great, started a famous school, studied with Plato | 19 | |
| 12332123908 | Gentiles | Non-Jewish people | 20 |
