First vocabulary for Honors/AP World History
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| 7205911197 | Hunting and gathering | Societies that rely primarily or exclusively on hunting wild animals, fishing, and gathering fruits berries, nuts, and vegetables to support there diet. | 0 | |
| 7205911198 | Jericho | Is a city in the Palestinian territories located near the Jordan river in the west bank. | 1 | |
| 7205912449 | Harappa and Mohenjo Daro | Civilization of the Indus river at Monhenjo-Daro and Harappa arose at about 2500 BCE and ended with apparent Destruction about 1500 BCE. | 2 | |
| 7205912961 | Ziggurats | A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. | 3 | |
| 7205914970 | Qin Dynasty | Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) established for the first centralized imperial government and built much of the great wall. | 4 | |
| 7205915379 | Daoism | Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu. Advocating humility and religious piety. | 5 | |
| 7205915650 | Bureaucracy | A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather by the elected representative. | 6 | |
| 7205917303 | Neolithic Revolution | Demographic transition, sometimes called the agriculture revolution, was a world-wide transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting I ng and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making population grow. | 7 | |
| 7205917534 | Bronze age | A period of human culture between stone age and iron age, characterized by the use of weapons and implements made of cast bronze. Starts at 3000 BCE in parts of Mediterranean Europe, middle east, and China. | 8 | |
| 7205917911 | Shang Dynasty | Or yin dynasty according to traditional historiography, ruled in the yellow river valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty. | 9 | |
| 7205918281 | Phoenicians | A member of a semitic people inhabiting Phoenicia AMD its colonies. The Phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital. The language was written in an alphabet that was the ancester of the Greek and roman alphabet. | 10 | |
| 7205918624 | Han Dynasty | Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization. | 11 | |
| 7205918807 | Silk road | Is a route that was a ancient network of trade routes they were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and the west and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean sea. | 12 | |
| 7205919183 | Civil Service Exam | Examination implemented in various countries for recruitment and admission to the civil service. Intended as a method to achieve an effective, rational public administration on a merit system. | 13 | |
| 7205919725 | Matrilineal/ Patrilineal | Society, also called matriliny, group adhering to a kinship system in which ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines. | 14 | |
| 7205922673 | Domestication | The process of taming an and mam and keeping it as a pet on a farm. | 15 | |
| 7205922916 | City State | A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 16 | |
| 7205923508 | Monotheism/Polytheism | A belief in one god, judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Are all religions. | 17 | |
| 7205924246 | Era of Warring States | Was an ear in ancient Chinese history following the spring and autumn period and concluded with the Qin wars of conquest that saw the annexation of all other contender states. Which led to the Qins victory in 221 BCE. | 18 | |
| 7205924451 | Analects | A collection of short literary or philosphical extracts. | 19 | |
| 7205925518 | Alexander the Great | 20 | ||
| 7205925809 | Pastoralism | Branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of liver stock. It is animal husbandry: the care,tendingband use of animals. | 21 | |
| 7205926451 | Babylonians | The dialect of Akkadian spoken in ancient Babylon. | 22 | |
| 7205927060 | Cuneiform | Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of mesopotamia, Persia. | 23 | |
| 7205929463 | Zhou Dynasty | (1046-256 BCE) was the longest lasting of chinas dynasties. | 24 | |
| 7205929464 | Legalism | Excessive adherence to law or formula | 25 | |
| 7205932675 | Five Classics | Are the four books were the basics of the civil examination in imperial China and can be considered the Confucian canon. | 26 | |
| 7205933335 | Indo-Aryans | A group of language making up the indic branch. | 27 | |
| 7205934679 | Catal Huyuk | Is an archaeological site in what is now south-central Turkey. The oldest cities in the world, dating back from almost 7500 BC. | 28 | |
| 7205934903 | Hammurabi | Was the sixth king of the first Babylonian dynasty, reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC. | 29 | |
| 7205935269 | Sumerians | Aember of the indigenous non-semitic people of ancient Babylonia, the Sumerian language. | 30 | |
| 7205938433 | Qin Shi Huangdi | Was the founder of the Win dynasty and was the first emperor of unified China. | 31 | |
| 7205940731 | Confucius | Was a Chinese Teacher, editor, and philosopher of the spring and autumn of Chinese history. | 32 | |
| 7205941114 | Mandate of heaven | Philosophical concept of the circumstances under which a ruler is allowed to rule. | 33 | |
| 7205944168 | Class structure that is determined by birth. | 34 |
