Unit 1 AP world history part 1
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| 10479112005 | Paleoanthropology | The study of the earliest humans and their enviornments | 0 | |
| 10479112006 | Myth | An interpretive stor of the past that cannot be verified historically but may have a deep moral message | 1 | |
| 10479112007 | Caste system | A hierachical ordering of people into groups, fixed from birth, based on their inherited ritual status and determining whom they may marry and with whom they may eat. | 2 | |
| 10479112008 | Hominid | Any of a family ( Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals, which includes humans and human like species | 3 | |
| 10479112009 | Homo sapiens | mankind; human being: the scientific name for the only living species of human | 4 | |
| 10479112010 | Homo erectus | The most widespread of all prehistoric hominids, and the most similar to humans. Evolved about 2 million years ago and became extinct 100,000 years ago | 5 | |
| 10479112011 | Shaman | In the religious believes of some Asian and American tribal societies, a person capable of entering into trances and believed to be endowed with supernatural powers with ability to cure the sick, find the lost or stolen property, predict the future, and protect the community from evil spirits. A "blank" may act as a judge or ruler, and, as a priest, a shaman directs communal sacrifices and escorts the souls of the dead to the next world. | 6 | |
| 10479112012 | Neolithic | "New stone age, "the last division of the stone age, immediately proceeding the development of metallurgy and corresponding to the 9th to 5th millennia B.C.E. it's was characterized by the increasing domestication of animals in the cultivation of crops, established agricultural communities and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving. | 7 | |
| 10479112013 | Innovation | The explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people were invented independently rather than spread from one group to another. | 8 | |
| 10479112014 | Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another. | 9 | |
| 10479112015 | Ziggurat | A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia, constructed of a square or rectangle or terraces of diminishing size, usually with a shrine on top built of blue enamel bricks, the color of the sky. | 10 | |
| 10479112016 | Hammurabi's Code | As states grew larger, formal, written law code's replace the customs and traditions of the farming villages. Around 1750 B.C.E., the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi conquered Mesopotamia uniting the warring city states under his rule. To reinforce that unity he set forth a code of laws that covered many aspects of daily life and business. The code provides a marvelous insight into the problems and nature of urban life at the time. It provides a detailed insight into property rights and urban crime, as well as the social and gender divisions of in the society. Finally, it gives students and scholars some idea of how justice was perceived in Hammurabi's world. The code is a list of 282 laws. | 11 | |
| 10479112017 | Pictogram | ( alternative pictograph) A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept. | 12 | |
| 10479112018 | Cuneiform | A writing system in use in the ancient near East from around the end of the fourth millennium to the first century BC E. The earliest examples are in Sumarian. The name derives from the wedge-shaped marks made by pressing the slanted edge of a stylus into soft clay | 13 | |
| 10479112019 | Idiogram | A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than its name. Languages such as Chinese use blank. | 14 | |
| 10479112020 | Hieroglyphics | The characters in a writing system based on the use of pictograms or ideograms. In ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics were largely used for monumental inscriptions. The symbols depict people, animals, and objects, which represent words, syllables, or sounds. | 15 | |
| 10479112021 | Amon-Re | The universal God, depicted as ram headed. | 16 | |
| 10479112022 | Osiris | Ruler of the underworld in chief judge of the dead, blank is normally depicted mummified or as a bearded man wearing the crown of upper Egypt and with a flail and crook in his hands. | 17 | |
| 10479112023 | Great Sphinx | The face of the sphinx a mythological creature with the Lions body and a human head is thought to be a likeness of King Khafre, who ruled Egypt sometime after 2600 B.C.E. | 18 | |
| 10479112024 | River civilization | The first great civilizations all grew up in river valleys, the oldest known civilization, 3300 to 2500 B.C.E., was along the Tigris and Euphrates river in the middle east; the name given to that civilization, Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers | 19 | |
| 10479112025 | Mesopotamia | Was in ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bonded in the north east by the Zagros mountains and in the south east by the Arabian pate, corresponding to today's Iraq. The two rivers of the name referred to the Tigris and Euphrates river and the land known as Al jazirah where blank civilization began | 20 | |
| 10479112026 | Indus river valley | Confined to the north and west by mountains, and to the east by desert, the blank had, by 2500 B.C.E., developed a sophisticated urban culture is based on individual walled cities, shared common patterns of urban design. In terms of geographical take extent civilization was the largest in the world and its time. | 21 | |
| 10479112027 | Mandate of heaven | A concept in China: the ruler had borrow authority so long as the heavenly powers granted it to him on the basis of his good character. A well functioning government was evidence that the ruler possess the mandate of heaven. A poorly functioning government showed that the mandate had passed away. | 22 | |
| 10479112028 | Zimbabwe | Stone wall enclosures or buildings built during the African Iron Age in the region of modern Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The structures were the courts of local rulers. They have been associated with foreign trade, integrated with the farming and animal husbandry, and gold production. The great blank is the ruins of the former capital of the Mesopotamia Empire l, situated in Zimbabwe | 23 | |
| 10479112029 | Oracle bones | Pieces of shell or bones typically from Ox or scapula or turtle shells due to their flat surfaces. They were used in as a form of divinity in in ancient China, mainly during he late Shang dynasty. | 24 | |
| 10479112030 | Xia dynasty | the first dynasty in traditional Chinese history. It is described in ancient historical chronicles such as the Bamboo Annals, the Classic of History and the Records of the Grand Historian. | 25 | |
| 10479112031 | Shang Dynasty | Centered where the Huang He yellow river enters it's flood pain from the mountains of North East China, the longshan farming communities of about 2500 B.C.E. benefited from rich alluvial soils and extensive metal one deposits by 1800 B.C.E. a powerful highly organized, urban, metal working culture, the Shang, had developed. | 26 |
