10591904088 | Tigris and Euphrates | Two rivers that flow from Iraq to Turkey | ![]() | 0 |
10591904089 | Mesopotamia | The civilization the settled in the Tigris and Euphrates | ![]() | 1 |
10591906464 | Fertile Crescent | The area of the Tigris and Euphrates, but also on the Mediterranean coast | ![]() | 2 |
10591906465 | Nile River | Flows from inner Africa to the Mediterranean sea | ![]() | 3 |
10591908522 | Indus River Valley | River valley in north west India | ![]() | 4 |
10591910579 | Huang He | One of China's Major Rivers depositing hello loess | ![]() | 5 |
10591927356 | Artifacts | An object made by humans in the past | ![]() | 6 |
10591927357 | Paleolithic Period | The period of stone tools and weapons. | 7 | |
10591929709 | Neolithic Revolution | political and social developments: agriculture, pastoralism, specialization of labor, towns and cities, government, religion, and technological innovation | 8 | |
10591929710 | Monotheism | Believing in one god | 9 | |
10591931944 | Bronze Age | The use of the metal bronze from 3300 BCE to 2300 BCE | 10 | |
10591931945 | Polytheism | Believing in more than one god | 11 | |
10591933582 | Ziggurats | Temples and altar in pyramids. | ![]() | 12 |
10591933583 | Hebrews/Israelites | Settlers of Canaan | 13 | |
10591934775 | Abraham | Left Mesopotamia to settle in Canaan, Father of the Abrahamic religions. | 14 | |
10591934776 | Moses | Led the Israelites out of enslavement from the Egyptians back to Canaan | 15 | |
10591936256 | Ten Commandments | Code of conduct for christians | 16 | |
10591936257 | Theocrats | Held religious and political Influence | 17 | |
10591938329 | Aryans | Nomadic pastoral people that came to the Indus River Valley to settle | 18 | |
10591938330 | Vedas and Vedic Age | The coalition of Dravidian and Aryan Beliefs | 19 | |
10591939577 | Brahmin | Aryan Priests | 20 | |
10591939578 | Dharma | Karma and fate in your next reincarnation | 21 | |
10591941689 | Golden Age | Peace, prosperity, and innovation in a society for a time. | 22 | |
10591941690 | Jericho | Built on the Jordan River, founded 9000 BCE, first evident human settlement. | 23 | |
10591942990 | Catal Huyuk | Built on a now dried river, founded 7500 BCE | 24 | |
10591942991 | Sumer | The civilization created by Sumer with many cities and a complex government | 25 | |
10591944434 | Sumerians | A nomadic pastoralist group than migrated to the already civilized Mesopotamia. | 26 | |
10591944435 | Uruk | The largest city of Sumer | 27 | |
10591947481 | City-states | Cities with in a civilization with independent governments | 28 | |
10591947482 | Babylonians | The empire that built a capital city in Mesopotamia. | 29 | |
10591949455 | Empire | a culturally diverse large territory | 30 | |
10591949456 | Hittites | A powerful Enemy of the Egyptians using iron tools | 31 | |
10591950867 | Kush | A kingdom that was trade heavy, and came after Nubia, but before Axum. | 32 | |
10591950868 | Harappa | An Advanced city of the Indus River Valley | 33 | |
10591955975 | Aboriginals | Australia's indigenous people | 34 | |
10591955976 | Hammurabi | The most powerful king of the Babylonians | 35 | |
10591957647 | King Menes | United upper and lower Egypt | 36 | |
10591957648 | Shang Dynasty | After the Xia Dynasty, started by Tang, ruled for about 600 years. | 37 | |
10591959841 | Mandate of Heaven | A rulers power was made by the gods | 38 | |
10591959842 | Zhou Dynasty | General WU overthrew the Shang king starting this dynasty, lasted about 900 years. | 39 | |
10591961561 | Specialization of labor | Allowing focus on a limited job | 40 | |
10591961562 | Copper | First metal used for tools | 41 | |
10591962859 | Bronze | An alloy of tin and copper for a strong metal | 42 | |
10591962860 | hunter-forager | scavenged for seeds, nuts, fruits, edible roots, and hunted animals | 43 | |
10591964768 | Agriculture | the growing of crops | 44 | |
10591964769 | Surplus | more than needed | 45 | |
10591966888 | Division of labor | Working on other things besides food. | 46 | |
10591966889 | Kinship group | families that are related that moved in a group to find food | 47 | |
10591968955 | Patriarchal | Societies led by men. | 48 | |
10591968956 | Artisans | Craftsman | 49 | |
10591970040 | Merchants | People that buy and sell goods | 50 | |
10591970041 | Social stratification | people had wealth in the form of objects/property | 51 | |
10591977693 | priests | Used to conduct religious ceremonies | 52 |
AP World History Period 1 Vocab Flashcards
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