study Guide for Ap World History Midter.
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| 12330723320 | civilization | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced. | 0 | |
| 12330723321 | culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. | 1 | |
| 12330723322 | history | The study of past events, particularly in human affairs. | 2 | |
| 12330723323 | 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 | |
| 12330723324 | Paleolithic | relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age | 4 | |
| 12330723325 | Neolithic Revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution. | 5 | |
| 12330723326 | 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 | |
| 12330723327 | 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 | |
| 12330723328 | Hieroglyphics | An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 8 | |
| 12330723329 | 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 | |
| 12330723330 | Pharaoh | A ruler of ancient Egypt | 10 | |
| 12330723331 | 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 | |
| 12330723332 | Harrapa | A civilization along the Indus River estblished around 7,000 BCE. This city consisted of over 5,000 square miles. | 12 | |
| 12330723333 | 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 | |
| 12330723334 | Satrap | A governor of a province in ancient Persia that ruled over a province (is a region within a country). | 14 | |
| 12330723335 | 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 | |
| 12330723336 | 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 | |
| 12330723337 | Polis | A city-state in ancient Greece. | 17 | |
| 12331893742 | Romanization | The conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. | 18 | |
| 12331901358 | Jesus of Nazareth | jewish religious leader who became a central figure in Christianity. | 19 | |
| 12332056320 | Plato | Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens. | 20 | |
| 12331934220 | Scribe | A person who copied documents.* This was before printing existed. | 21 | |
| 12331951599 | Ziggurat | Rectangular shaped towers, that had doors on only the roof to ensure safety. This was how the mesopotamians protected themselves. | 22 | |
| 12331996131 | Cuneiform | A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets. | 23 | |
| 12332009484 | Hittites | Powerful people that lived in Anatolia, Asia Minor ( current day Turkey )They expanded their territories to extend their empire. Their rise threatened Egypt's nation. | 24 | |
| 12332058284 | Monotheism | Belief in one God | 25 | |
| 12332070882 | Diaspora | A dispersion of people from their homeland | 26 | |
| 12332074380 | Papyrus | A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse, paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. People used it for shoes, rope, and material for boats. | 27 | |
| 12332097838 | Mummy | A dead body preserved in lifelike condition | 28 | |
| 12332052784 | Hebrew Bible | A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E. | 29 | |
| 12332140480 | Aristotle | A Greek Philosopher, taught Alexander the Great, started a famous school, studied with Plato | 30 | |
| 12332133581 | Confucianism | A philosophy that adheres to the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. It shows the way to ensure a stable government and an orderly society in the present world and stresses a moral code of conduct. | 31 | |
| 12332129222 | Herodotus | Greek Historian, considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively, collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands. | 32 | |
| 12332175030 | Latifundia | A large estate or ranch in ancient Rome or recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by slaves. | 33 | |
| 12332173651 | Socrates | (470-399 BCE) An Athenian philosopher who thought that human beings could lead honest lives and that honor was far more important than wealth, fame, or other superficial attributes. | 34 | |
| 12332171066 | Ptolemy | Alexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD) | 35 | |
| 12332369049 | pyramid | A solid shape with a polygon as a base and triangular faces that come to a point (vertex or apex) | 36 | |
| 12332376189 | Pericles | Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the construction of the Parthenon. | 37 | |
| 12332376190 | Persian Wars | A series of wars between the Greeks (mainly Athens) and the Persians in which the Greeks were usually victorious. | 38 | |
| 12332382355 | Hellenistic Age | Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome, but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Islam. | 39 | |
| 12332382356 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. | 40 | |
| 12332384408 | Shang | The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship, divination by means of oracle bones, and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this culture. | 41 | |
| 12332391019 | divination | (n.) the art or act of predicting the future or discovering hidden knowledge | 42 | |
| 12332432914 | Zhou | The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History. | 43 | |
| 12332475151 | Gentiles | Non-Jewish people | 44 | |
| 12332488277 | Zoroastrianism | a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC. | 45 |
