4835801463 | civilization | Used to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits | 0 | |
4835803646 | culture | (1) Socially transmitted patterns of action/expression. (2) Material culture: dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts. (3) Also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and technology. | 1 | |
4835805030 | history | The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices. | 2 | |
4835805956 | Stone Age | The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other non-metallic substances. | 3 | |
4835806388 | Paleolithic | Period of time in the Stone Age associated with the evolution of man. | 4 | |
4835806840 | Neolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. | 5 | |
4835807639 | foragers | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. | 6 | |
4835809198 | Agricultural Revolutions (ancient) | The change from food gathering to food production occurring : 8000-2000 BCE. | 7 | |
4835809975 | Holocene | The geological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 11,000 years ago. | 8 | |
4835811373 | megalith | Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial purposes in Neolithic times. | 9 | |
4835811977 | Babylon | The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. | 10 | |
4835813291 | Sumerians | The people who dominated Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation, technology, cuneiform, and religious conception. | 11 | |
4835814247 | Semite | Family of related languages long spoken across parts of Western Asia and Northern Africa. Languages included Hebrew, Aramaic and Phoenician. | 12 | |
4835815265 | city-state | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. | 13 | |
4835816413 | Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE) | Amorite ruler of Babylon. Conquered many city-states in southern/northern Mesopotamia. | 14 | |
4835817373 | scribe | Professional position reserved for men who have undergone lengthy training to read and write early writing systems. | 15 | |
4835818388 | ziggurat | A Mesopotamian pyramidal stepped tower of mud bricks. | 16 | |
4835819299 | amulet | Small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil. | 17 | |
4835819488 | cuneiform | A system in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. | 18 | |
4835820002 | pharaoh | Central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. Believed to be a manifestation of the gods. | 19 | |
4835822446 | ma'at | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintain order in the universe. | 20 | |
4835823235 | pyramid | A large, triangular stone monument, used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king. | 21 | |
4835823792 | Memphis | Capital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta. | 22 | |
4835824798 | Thebes | Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. | 23 | |
4835828293 | hieroglyphics | A system of writing in which pictorial symbols that represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in Ancient Egypt. | 24 | |
4835830780 | papyrus | A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. | 25 | |
4835834565 | mummy | Body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife. | 26 | |
4835835999 | Harappa | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the 3rd millennium BCE. | 27 | |
4835838972 | Mohenjo-Daro | Largest of the Indus Valley civilization. | 28 |
AP World History Vocabulary - Chapter 1 Flashcards
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