These are the key terms from Chapter 1 of The Earth and Its Peoples for AP World History
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| 135116537 | Civilization | An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits. | 0 | |
| 135116538 | Culture | Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression. | 1 | |
| 135116539 | History | The study of past events and changes in the development transmission and transformation of cultural practices. | 2 | |
| 135116540 | 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 and more generally by the Iron Age. | 3 | |
| 135116541 | Paleolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. | 4 | |
| 135116542 | Neolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s). | 5 | |
| 135116543 | Foragers | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. | 6 | |
| 135116544 | Agricultural Revolutions | The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca. 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. | 7 | |
| 135116545 | Holocene | The ecological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 11,000 years ago. | 8 | |
| 135116546 | Megaliths | Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times. | 9 | |
| 135116547 | Babylon | The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the Amorite King Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. | 10 | |
| 135116548 | Sumerians | The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture- such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions. | 11 | |
| 135116549 | Semitic | Family of related languages long spoken across parts of Western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. | 12 | |
| 135116550 | Hammurabi | Amorite ruler of Babylon (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. | 13 | |
| 135116551 | Scribe | In the governments of many ancient societies, a proven position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy training required to be able to read and writing cuneiform, hieroglyphics, or other early cumbersome writing systems. | 14 | |
| 135116552 | Ziggurat | A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. It associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. | 15 | |
| 135116553 | Amulets | Small charms meant to protect the bearer from evil. Found frequently in Mesopotamia and Egypt, amulets reflect the religious practices of the common people. | 16 | |
| 135116554 | Cuneiform | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. | 17 | |
| 135116555 | Pharaoh | The central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. Believed to be an earthly manifestation of the gods, he used his absolute power to maintain the safety and prosperity of Egypt. | 18 | |
| 135116556 | Ma'at | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world, the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order. | 19 | |
| 135116557 | Memphis | The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids. | 20 | |
| 135116558 | Thebes | Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. | 21 | |
| 135116559 | Hieroglyphics | A system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. It was used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. | 22 | |
| 135116560 | Papyrus | A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse, paper-like writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. | 23 | |
| 135116561 | Mummy | A body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances often in the belief that deceased will need it again in the afterlife. | 24 |
