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AP world history vocab Flashcards

4827063496	absolutism	belief in where one ruler/government has all the powers	0
4827068430	agriculture	production of crops, livestock and poultry	1
4827068431	aristocracy	class or government that is consider to be the best	2
4827069397	bias	feeling towards something that is unreasonable	3
4827070388	bureaucracy	government with many administrator and officials	4
4827086110	chiefdom	the rank of a person highest on authority or family	5
4827087547	city state	state that is surrounded by agricultural cities	6
4827099195	civlization	where human society has reached the highest level of culture, science and etc	7
4827119041	commercial	relating to something or to engage in trade	8
4827120569	demography	the count of births, deaths, marriage and population	9
4827125510	divination	practice that predicts the future	10
4827133071	dynasty	sequence of ruler from the same family	11
4827138543	empire	people getting ruled over by someone more powerful then them	12
4827141808	epidemic	a disease affecting many people but not wide spread	13
4827141809	forager	one that looks for food or hunter or gatherer	14
4827168717	globalization	moving to other parts of the world and connecting with them	15
4827171950	indentured servant	people that moved to another country to work for someone	16
4827174062	interregional	connecting with 2 or more regions or kind of like trading	17
4827178058	kingdom	government that has king or queen	18
4827179443	medieval	style, characteristics of middle ages or just relating to it	19
4827183588	merchant	someone who sells stuff like a dealer	20
4827188003	monotheism	believing that there is only one god	21
4827189594	nation	people with the same culture living in one territory	22
4827193671	neolithic	last phase of the stone age domestication of animals and development of agriculture	23
4827195496	nobility	group of people belonging in a noble class and got to be noble from there family	24
4827208526	nomad	group of people moving from one place to another, so not living in the same place	25
4827212015	ocean	vast body of salt water or a lot something	26
4827278185	pandemic	a disease that is wide spread throughout the world	27
4827281976	papacy	office of pope or the time he is in office	28
4827287597	pastoral	consist of Shepard or relating to country life	29
4827292021	patriarchal	the male head of the family	30
4827297348	periodization	dividing subjects into historical timeline for purpose	31
4827307760	polytheism	belief in more than one god	32
4827316569	prehistoric	relating to a time period recorded in history	33
4827318450	primary source	an eyewitness that saw what happened	34
4827320008	revolution	an overthrow of the government	35
4827322025	rural	relating to the the characteristics of a country life or living in the country	36
4827325802	scribe	person who makes copies of scripts and must be able to read and write	37
4827326865	secondary source	information that was created by someone that did not see it happen at the exact moment	38
4827330465	serf	a person that works for another person or basically a slave	39
4827331633	shaman	kind of like a good witch doctor or a person that heals and controls spirit	40
4827337783	slave	someone that is property to another subject	41
4827338816	steppes	grassland without trees	42
4827340250	urban	living in city or relating to characteristics of a town or city	43

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AP World History Flashcards

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7201715386	Demography	Interaction between humans and the environment	0
7201715387	Migration	Interactions between humans and there environment	1
7201715388	Patterns of settlement	Interactions between humans and the environment	2
7201715389	Patterns of settlement	Interactions between humans and there environment	3
7201715390	Technology	Interactions between humans and the environment	4
7201715391	Religions	Development and interaction of cultures	5
7201715392	Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies	Development and interaction of culture	6
7201715393	Science and technology	Development and interaction of cultures	7
7201715394	The arts and architecture	Development and interactions of cultures	8
7201715395	Political structures and forms of governance	State building expansion and conflict	9
7201715396	Empires	State building expansion and conflict	10
7201715397	Nations and nationalism	State building expansion and conflict	11
7201715398	Revolts and revolutions	State building expansion and conflict	12
7201715399	Regional, trans regionals, and global structures and organizations	State building expansions and conflicts	13
7201715400	Agricultural and pastoral production	Creation expansion and interaction of economic systems	14
7201715401	Trade and commerce	Creation expansion and interactions of economic systems	15
7201715402	Labor systems	Creation expansion and interaction of economic systems	16
7201715403	Industrialization	Creation expansion and interaction of economic systems	17
7201715404	Capitalism socialism	Creation expansion and interaction of economic systems	18
7201715405	Gender roles and relations	Development and transformation of social structures	19
7201715406	Family and kinship	Development and transformation of social structures	20
7201715407	Racial and ethnic constructions	Development and transformation of social structures	21
7201715408	Social and economic classes	Development and transformation of social structures	22

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AP World History Geography Flashcards

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7212668974	City; Canton, China	coast of China. Above the Philippines	0
7212672303	Baghdad	Under Istanbul. Above Tigris, Euphrates and Mecca.	1
7212677016	Bactavia	above and left of Canton. Near Calcutta. Under Indus River	2
7212683696	Mecca	beside Tigris and Euphrates. Under Baghdad	3
7212686866	Malacca	Above Sumatra. Beside Malaysian subcontinent	4
7212688993	Istanbul	above and to the near right of strait of Gibraltar.	5
7212695509	Cordoba	South America. Above Kilwa	6
7212697966	Tours	Above Iberian Peninsula. Near coast by Mediterranean Sea	7
7212701619	Jerusalem	I'm between Istanbul and Arab Peninsula	8
7212706979	Tenochtitlan	Mexico City. Above Caribbean Sea	9
7212716137	Timbuktu	In the Sahara desert. Above Nile river, Niger River, and Jenne (Africa)	10
7212721310	Beijing	China, Coast near Sea of Japan	11
7212723757	Kilwa	Beside Córdoba, on the coast	12
7212738131	Calcutta	India, on the coast above Bactavia and Malacca	13
7212742904	Jenne, Africa	Next to Niger River. Under Timbuktu and above Kalahari desert	14
7212746136	Moscow	Above Black Sea and Caspian Sea. In Anatolia; Modern day Turkey	15
7212752466	Indian Ocean	Under Swahili coast and Malaysian peninsula	16
7212754232	Black Sea	Under Moscow	17
7212756504	South China Sea	South of China. Next to Canton	18
7212762671	Arabian Sea	Above Swahili coast.	19
7212766867	Mediterranean Sea	Above and far left Anatolia	20
7212768390	Strait of Gibraltar	above Africa; in gap between Africa and Istanbul	21
7212771412	Bering Sea	Near North America, Far left	22
7212774899	Caribbean Sea	Between Mexico and Mexico City and South America	23
7212777597	Caspian Sea	near Moscow and black sea	24
7212785702	Sea of Japan	In between Japan and Asia coast.	25
7212792246	Bosporus	Under Black Sea. On coast near Istanbul	26
7212794948	Persian Gulf	between Indian subcontinent and Middle East	27
7212799143	Red Sea	Between Africa and Indian subcontinent	28
7212800035	Sahara Desert	Top of Africa, leave a small space	29
7212803191	Gobi Desert	beside Bejing. Close to Jerusalem	30
7212809537	Kalahari Desert	In South Africa	31
7212811316	Nile River	close to Red Sea. Under Timbuktu	32
7212813005	Niger River	Next to Jenne. Under Timbuktu	33
7212814550	Amazon River	South America. Aboveboard Cordoba	34
7212816627	Tiber River	Next to Iberian Peninsula. Far left of it is Tours	35
7212827161	Ganges River	near Yangtze and Indus River.	36
7212834155	Huange He, Yellow River	Under Gobi desert	37
7212835887	Yangtze River	by the Ganges and underneath Jerusalem	38
7212839345	Indus River	near Ganges. Near Gobi desert	39
7212845134	Tigris River	near Euphrates River and Persian Gulf. Under Baghdad	40
7212848562	Euphrates	near Tigris answer Mecca	41
7212853723	Indonesia	near Bactavia and Philippines	42
7212855235	Philippines	near Indonesia. Southeast Asia	43
7212875630	Indian Subcontinent	South into Indian Ocean, indian continent	44
7212880553	Arabian Peninsula	above the Middle East. Under Jerusalem and Yangtze River	45
7212881936	Korean Peninsula	In Eastern Asia. Near Sea of Japan	46
7212884037	Japan	next to Sea of Japan. Southeast Asia.	47
7212886229	Swahili Coast	Sub Saharan Africa. Coast of Africa right of Kalahari desert	48
7212889004	South Asia	Southern Asia	49
7212890753	Middle East	Middle East. Near India	50
7212892977	Iberian Peninsula	Next to France, Above Africa	51
7212898837	Sumatra	above Malaysian Peninsula, above Bactavia and across Indonesia	52
7212904234	Malaysian Peninsula	one landmark in between South China Sea	53
7212906640	Crimean Peninsula	above Black Sea.	54
7212909242	Anatolia	Under Black Sea, modern age; Turkey	55
7212910879	Central Asia Steppes	Central Asia. Middle of Asia	56

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AP World History Unit 2 Note Cards Flashcards

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5151843554	Agrarian Economic	relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property	0
5151843555	Barbarian P	a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person	1
5151845204	Boddhisatva C	a person who has attained prajna, or Enlightenment, but who postpones Nirvana in order to help others to attain Enlightenment: individual Bodhisattvas are the subjects of devotion in certain sects and are often represented in painting and sculpture	2
5151845936	Bureaucracy p	the body of officials and administrators, especially of a government or government department	3
5151847145	Castration c	to deprive of strength, power, or efficiency; weaken	4
5151848055	Civilization s	an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached	5
5151848056	Classical c	conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art, or to later systems modeled upon them	6
5151849089	Conscription p	compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft	7
5151849090	Consuls p	an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country	8
5151850130	Dictator p	a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession	9
5151850131	Economy e	thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc	10
5151851191	Egalitarian p,e,s	asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life	11
5151851192	Emperor p	the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire	12
5151851193	Empire s	a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire	13
5151852001	Epidemics i	affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent	14
5151852002	Eunuchs p	a castrated man, especially one formerly employed by rulers in the Middle East and Asia as a harem guard or palace official	15
5151852814	Feudalism p	the feudal system, or its principles and practices	16
5151853859	Hegemony p	the feudal system, or its principles and practices	17
5151853860	Hierarchy p	any system of persons or things ranked one above another	18
5151854828	Hierarchial p	a person who rules or has authority in sacred matters; high priest	19
5151855618	Missionaries c	a person strongly in favor of a program, set of principles, etc., who attempts to persuade or convert others	20
5151858120	Monarchy p	supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person	21
5151858847	Monsoons i	the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter	22
5151858848	Monotheism c	the doctrine or belief that there is only one God	23
5151859742	Patricians p	a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat	24
5151860278	Patronage p	the control of or power to make appointments to government jobs or the power to grant other political favors.	25
5151861339	Philosophy c	the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.	26
5151862572	Plebians s	belonging or pertaining to the common people	27
5151863173	Polytheism c	the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods	28
5151864599	Qanat Economic	a gently sloping underground tunnel for irrigation purposes, esp. in ancient Persia	29
5151864600	Satrapies p	the province or jurisdiction of a satrap	30
5151865869	Standardized Coins Economic	a coin having value in bullion at least equal to its face value	31
5151865870	Surplus e	agricultural produce or a quantity of food grown by a nation or area in excess of its needs, especially such a quantity of food purchased and stored by a governmental program of guaranteeing farmers a specific price for certain crops	32
5151867413	Sustenance e	to supply with food, drink, and other necessities of life	33
5151867414	Theocracy p	a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.	34
5151867415	Tribute c	a gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem.	35
5151868575	Urbanization s	taking on the characteristics of a city	36
5151868576	Vassals p	a person holding some similar relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, follower, or retainer	37
5151871150	Alexander the Great pg: 166 p	king of Macedon, who conquered Greece (336), Egypt (331), and the Persian Empire (328), and founded Alexandria	38
5151872406	Analects of Confucius pg: 183 p	A work that has profoundly influenced Chinese political and cultural traditions	39
5151872407	Bactria pg: 209 p	an ancient country in W Asia, between the Oxus River and the Hindu Kush Mountains	40
5151873130	Bronze Age pg: 112 p	a period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used	41
5151873137	Byzantium pg: 440 p	an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara: Constantine I rebuilt it and renamed it Constantinople a.d	42
5151874341	Ceylon pg: 222 p	former name of Sri Lanka	43
5151875194	Chang'an pg: 194 p	former name of Xian	44
5151875830	Cleopatra pg: 268 p	a female given name: from Greek words meaning "fame" and "father."	45
5151875831	Crete pg: 232 p	Sea of, a part of the S Aegean Sea lying between the Cyclades Islands and Crete	46
5151876656	Cyrus, Darius pg: 159, 162 p	founder of the Persian empire	47
5151876657	Democracy pg: 236 p	a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system	48
5151877420	Diocletian pg: 306 p	Illyrian soldier: emperor of Rome 284-305	49
5151878265	Eight Fold Path pg: 220 c	the eight pursuits of one seeking enlightenment, comprising right understanding, motives, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, intellectual activity, and contemplation.	50
5151878266	Four Noble Paths pg: 219 c	the core of the Buddha's doctrine teaches that all life involves suffering	51
5151879727	Gothic Migrations i	period of human migration that occurred roughly between 300 to 700 CE in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages	52
5151879728	Great Wall pg: 725 p	a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria	53
5151880784	Han Dynasty pg: 193 p	was one of the longest of China's major dynasties	54
5151880785	Hellenism pg: 242 p	the characteristics of Greek culture, especially after the time of Alexander the Great; civilization of the Hellenistic period	55
5151882633	The Huns pg: 213 p	a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.	56
5151883752	Indian Ocean Trade pg: 215 e	served as an important role in history, and has been a key factor in East-West exchanges	57
5151883753	Iron Age pg: 118 p	the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.	58
5151884318	Jewish Diaspora pg: i	refers to the dispersion of Israelites, Judahites, and later Jews out of their ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and the communities built by them across the world.	59
5151884319	Khotan pg: p	the chief city in this oasis	60
5151886390	Kuqa p	a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture	61
5151886395	Legalism(China)pg: 188 p	was a philosophy of administration in ancient China	62
5151887497	Marc Antony p	an ally of Julius Caesar and the main rival of his successor Octavian (later Augustus)	63
5151888562	Noble Eightfold Path 220 c	the system of following these eight divisions of the path to achieve spiritual enlightenment and cease suffering	64
5151889672	Olympic Games 1076 c	part of a religious festival. The Greek Olympics, thought to have begun in 776 BC, inspired the modern Olympic Games (begun in 1896) The Games were held in honour of Zeus, king of the gods, and were staged every four years at Olympia, a valley near a city called Elis	65
5151889673	Pax Romana 271 s	the terms of peace imposed by ancient Rome on its dominions	66
5151890287	Pericles 237&240 p	c495-429 b.c, Athenian statesman	67
5151890288	Persepolis 162,163&166 p	an ancient capital of Persia	68
5151891233	Ptolemy 242 p	Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria	69
5151891915	Punic Wars 264 p	the three wars waged by Rome against Carthage, 264-241, 218-201, and 149-146 b.c., resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome	70
5151909078	Roman Republic 260, 262-64 p	the period of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire	71
5151893697	Roman Senate p	political institution in ancient Rome	72
5151893698	Samarkand 476 p	a city in SE Uzbekistan: taken by Alexander the Great 329 b.c.; Tamerlane's capital in the 14th century	73
5151895460	Shang Civilization( China) 111-114 p	ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty	74
5151896908	Shi Huang Di (Qin China) 190-193 p	Chinese emperor c247-210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China	75
5151911561	Siddhartha Gautama p	an ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded	76
5151897754	Silk Road Trade 198, 287-88 e	network of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea	77
5151897755	Stoics 254, 276-77, 278-79 c	of or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity	78
5151899599	The Torah 47,48 c	a scroll that says the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch)	79
5151900812	The Vedas of Hinduism 94, 99-101 c	large body of texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent	80
5151900813	Xiongnu 194, 196-97, 199, 201, 287 p	were one of the nomadic peoples of Ancient Central Asia	81

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AP World History - Unit IV Maps Flashcards

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5928178000	Philippines	0
5928179772	Spice Islands	1
5928179773	Caribbean	2
5928182073	Macau / Canton	3
5928183411	Cape of Good Hope	4
5928186220	England	5
5928186221	France	6
5928186222	Russia	7
5928188200	Holy Roman Empire	8
5928188201	Asante	9
5928190676	Ottoman Empire	10
5928190677	Safavid Empire	11
5928193334	British Colony	12
5928195962	Dutch Colony	13
5928199852	Portuguese Colony	14
5928199853	Paris	15
5928202426	Moscow	16
5928202427	St. Petersburg	17
5928204040	Vienna	18
5928211645	Beijing	19

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AP World History Period 1 (Burruano) Flashcards

From Hunting and Gathering to Civilizations, 2.5 million-1000 B.C.E.: Origins
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10425434747	hunting and gathering	Means of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization	0
10425434748	civilization	Societies with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups	1
10425434749	neolithic	The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished	2
10425434750	nomadic societies	livestock hearding societies that do not have a permanent settlement. normally found on the fringes of civilized (urban) societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies	3
10425434751	culture	Combination of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction	4
10425434752	agrarian revolution	Occurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture	5
10425434753	pastoralism	A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies	6
10425434754	Catal Huyuk	Early urban culture/civiization based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification	7
10425434755	Bronze Age	From 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.; increased use of plow, metalworking; development of wheeled vehicles, writing	8
10425434756	Mesopotamia	Literally "between the rivers"; the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys	9
10425434757	potter's wheel	A technological advance in pottery making; invented circa 6000 B.C.E.; encouraged faster and higher-quality ceramic pottery products	10
10425434758	Sumerians	People who migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 B.C.E.; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states	11
10425434759	cuneiform	A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets	12
10425434760	city-state	A form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilization; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban-based king	13
10425434761	ziggurat	a massive tower building usually associated with Mesopotamian temple connections	14
10425434762	Babylonian Empire	Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 B.C.E.; collapsed due to foreign invasion circa 1600 B.C.E.	15
10425434763	Hammurabi	The most important Babylonian ruler; responsible for codification of the law	16
10425434764	Pharaoh	The term used to denote the kings of ancient Egypt; the term, "great house" refers to the palace of the pharaohs	17
10425434765	pyramids	Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs	18
10425434766	hieroglyphs	Form of writing developed in ancient Egypt; more pictorial than Mesopotamian cuneiform	19
10425434767	Kush	African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile circa 1000 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries	20
10425434768	monotheism	The exclusive worship of one god; introduced by Jews into Middle Eastern civilization	21
10425434769	Phoenicians	Seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean; established colonies throughout the Mediterranean	22
10425434770	Harappa and Mohenjo Daro	Major urban complexes of Harappan civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern	23
10425434771	Aryans	Indo-European nomadic, warlike, pastorialists who replaced Harappan civilization	24
10425434772	Huanghe (Yellow) River Basin	Site of the development of sedentary agriculture in China	25
10425434773	Shang	1st Chinese dynasty (after the legendary Xia)	26
10425434774	Oracles	Shamans or priests in Chinese society who foretold the future through interpreting animal bones cracked by heat; inscriptions on bones led to Chinese writing	27
10425434775	ideographic writing	Pictograph characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing	28
10425434776	Big Geography	A term that draws attention to the global nature of world history.	29
10425434777	Paleolithic	The period that ended about 3,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, it lasted until about 10,000 years ago. (Old Stone Age) The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.	30
10425434778	Human migration during Paleolithic era	movement of humans from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas	31
10425434779	eglitarian	equality among people (no social levels)	32
10425434780	tools	Humans developed a wider range of ____ specially adapted to different environments from tropics to tundra	33
10425434781	Neolithic Revolution	period of change from hunter-gatherer lifesyle to agricultural lifestyles associated with domestication, farming, and settlement	34
10425434782	patriarchy	father based/male dominated society	35
10425434783	climatic change	Permanent agricultural villages emerged first in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, possibly as a response to what?	36
10425434784	weapons	Pastoralists were often the developers and disseminators of of ____ and forms of transportation that transformed warfare in agrarian civilizations	37
10425434785	horses	name one mode of new transportation by the pastoralists	38
10425434786	art	Elites, both political and religious, promoted ____.	39
10425434787	record-keeping systems	___ arose independently in all early civilization sand subsequently were diffused	40
10425434788	Nile River	This river flooded regularly.	41
10425434789	Tigris River	This river's floods were unpredictable.	42
10425434790	Mesopotamian	Unpredictable weather patterns affected the development of the _____ civilization.	43
10425434791	Egyptian	_______art demonstrated little change for nearly 1000 years.	44
10425434792	Nubia and Kush	Kingdoms upriver from Egypt.	45
10425434795	Standard of Ur		46
10425434796	Harappan King or Priest Figure		47
10425434793	Jericho	One of the earliest cities: located in modern Israel.	48
10425434794	Catal-Hyouk	One of the earliest cities: located in modern Turkey.	49

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AP World History (Period 3) Vocabulary Flashcards

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8023005638	Bedouins	Arabic-speaking nomadic peoples of the Middle Eastern deserts, especially of North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Syria, and Jordan.	0
8023005639	Bushido	The code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai.	1
8023005640	Caesaropapism	A political theory in which the head of state, notably the Emperor, is also the supreme head of the church.	2
8023005641	Charlemagne	Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great or Charles I, was King of the Franks. He united a large part of Europe during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France, Germany and the Low Countries.	3
8023005642	Crusades	The first of the Crusades began in 1095, when armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to Pope Urban II's plea to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land.	4
8023005643	Cyril and Methodius	In 862, when Prince Rostislav of Great Moravia asked Constantinople for missionaries, the emperor Michael III and the patriarch Photius named Cyril and Methodius.	5
8023005644	Dhimmis	A dhimmi refers to specific individuals living in Muslim lands, who were granted special status and safety in Islamic law in return for paying the capital tax.	6
8023005645	Fictive Kinship	Fictive kinship is a term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are based on neither blood ties nor marriage ties, in contrast to true kinship ties.	7
8023005646	Firestick Farming	Fire-stick farming was the practice of Indigenous Australians who regularly used fire to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area.	8
8023005647	Foot Binding	Foot binding was the custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young girls to prevent further growth.	9
8023005648	Ghana, Mali, Songhay	Three of the greatest western African trading states.	10
8023005649	Guild	Associations of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town.	11
8023005650	Hadiths	A collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad that, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna), constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Koran.	12
8023005651	Hajj	An annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the most holy city of the Muslims.	13
8023005652	Hijra	Muhammad's departure from Mecca to Medina in AD 622, prompted by the opposition of the merchants of Mecca and marking the consolidation of the first Muslim community.	14
8023005653	Heian	Capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180.	15
8023005654	Iconoclasm	The rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical; practiced by the Byzantine Empire.	16
8023005655	Ibn Battuta	A medieval Moroccan traveler and scholar, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travelers of all time.	17
8023005656	Imams	A title of various Muslim leaders, especially of one succeeding Muhammad as leader of Shiite Islam.	18
8023005657	Indulgence	A grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages.	19
8023005658	Indian Ocean Trading Network	Long distance trade in dhows and sailboats made it a dynamic zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Java in the East to Zanzibar and Mombasa in the West.	20
8023005659	Jihad	The spiritual struggle within oneself against sin.	21
8023005660	Jizya	A per capita yearly tax historically levied by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects permanently residing in Muslim lands under Islamic law.	22
8023005661	Jurchen	A Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until around 1630, at which point they were reformed and combined with their neighbors as the Manchus.	23
8023005662	Monsoons	A seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain or from the northeast between October and April.	24
8023005663	Neo-Confucianism	A movement in religious philosophy derived from Confucianism in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism.	25
8023005664	Paleolithic Persistence	The persistence of the Paleolithic lifestyle in the 15th century.	26
8023005665	Pastoralism	The branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock.	27
8023005666	Pure Land Buddhism	A tradition of Buddhist teachings that are focused on Amitābha Buddha, which was popular after the rise of the Sui Dynasty.	28
8023005667	Sand Roads	A vast network of roads that were the center of trade in Northern and Western Africa during the first millennium B.C.E.	29
8023005668	Sharia	Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet.	30
8023005669	Silk Roads	The Silk Road is a historically important international trade route between China and the Mediterranean.	31
8023005670	Song Dynasty Economic Revolution	For over three centuries during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) China experienced sustained growth in per capita income and population, structural change in the economy, and increased pace of technological innovation.	32
8023005671	Srivijaya	A city-state based on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which influenced much of Southeast Asia.	33
8023005672	Sufis	A Muslim ascetic and mystic.	34
8023005673	Third-Wave Civilization	Civilizations that were creating during the 15th century.	35
8023005674	Tribute System	The network of trade and foreign relations between China and its tributaries that helped to shape much of East Asian affairs.	36
8023005675	Trung Sisters	Two first-century Vietnamese women leaders who successfully repelled Chinese invasions for three years, and are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.	37
8023005676	Turks	A Turkic ethnic group and nation living mainly in Turkey and speaking Turkish, the most widely spoken Turkic language.	38
8023005677	Ulama	A body of Muslim scholars recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology.	39
8023005678	Umma	The whole community of Muslims bound together by ties of religion.	40
8023005679	Vikings	Norse seafarers, speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Scandinavian homelands across wide areas of northern, central and eastern Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.	41

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7242410702	north America	Canada, US, Mexico, Caribbean islands	0
7242410703	Latin America	Brazil, Mexico,Cuba, Haiti	1
7242410705	Caribbean islands	Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica	2
7242410709	Middle East	Israel, Egypt, Iran	3
7242410710	Central Asia	Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan	4
7242410711	East Asia	China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea	5
7242410712	South Asia	India, Pakistan, Bangladesh	6
7242410713	Southeast Asia	Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia	7
7242410717	Africa	North, West, Central, East and Middle East	8
7242410718	North Africa	Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt	9
7242410719	Central Africa	Democratic Republic Of Congo, central African republic	10
7242410720	East Africa	Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya	11
7242410721	Southern Africa	South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana	12
7253430176	West Africa	Senegal, Ghana, Mali	13

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7229685742	Upper Egypt	The Southern Most part of Egypt	0
7229686113	Lower Egypt	The Northern most part of Egypt	1
7229686784	Black Land=	Good Soil	2
7229687016	Red Land=	Bad Soil	3
7229687532	Nile River	World's Longest River	4
7229688938	The Nile Stretches from	highlands of Central Africa to the Mediterranean Sea	5
7229691953	Steps to Civilization	Farming and Food, Trade, Clothes, Language and Writing, War, Construction , Religion	6
7229699026	Pharaoh Menes	a king of Upper Egypt, united all of Egypt into one kingdom.	7
7229701118	Hieroglyphics	came from Greek words meaning "sacred writings."	8
7229702353	Archaic Period	Hieroglyphics were established during the	9
7229724152	Egyptian Religion	believed in the concept that you could take it with you.	10
7229725895	3 Middle Kingdom Graves	Surface (with or without coffin) Shaft (usually with coffin) Tomb (coffin & sarcophagus	11
7229729652	Menes	Founded the first Egyptian Dynasty	12
7229734716	Hyksos	foreign invaders who took over the governance of Egypt, but there was little conflict between the new rulers and the Egyptian people	13
7229743860	First Civilizations	1. Mesopotamian Civilizations 2. Nile River Valley Civilizations 3. Indus River Valley 4. Yellow River Valley Civilization 5. Norte Chico Civilization 6. Olmec Civilization	14
7229746990	Indus River Valley Civilization	Arose early in South Asia as did Mesopotamia & Egypt. Rain & melting snow from the mountains provide the river with twice year flooding. Weather shifts dramatically.	15

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4732869305	civilization	A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes	0
4732869306	cultural	The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another	1
4732869740	history	the study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices	2
4732869741	stone age	the historical period characterized by the production of tools made from stone and other nonmetallic substances. (after the bronze age and in general, iron age)	3
4732870659	paleolithic	the period of the stone age associated with the evolution of humans	4
4732871054	neolithic	the period of the stone age associated with the ancient agricultural revolutions (after paleolithic period)	5
4732871055	foragers	people who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects	6
4732871267	agricultural revolutions	the change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca 8000 and 2000 bce (neolithic revolution)	7
4732871268	megaliths	structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in neolithic times	8
4732871450	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, taken over by their Semitic successors	9
4732871451	semitic	family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician) most wide spread is arabic	10
4732872310	city-state	a small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. ( early Mesopotamia, archaic and classical Greece, Phoenician, and early Italy	11
4732872311	babylon	the largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. (capital of the amorite king hammurabi in the 18th century B.C.E.	12
4732872577	hammurabi	amorite ruler of Babylon / conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best know for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases	13
4732872578	scribe	a professional position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy training required to be able to read and write using cuneiforms, hieroglyphics, or other early, cumbersome writing systems	14
4732872579	ziggurat	a massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. it is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown	15
4732873589	amulet	small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil.	16
4732873590	cuneiform	a system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. (originated from Mesopotamia)	17
4732873782	bronze	an alloy of copper with a small amount of tin (harder and more durable than copper alone)	18
4732874142	pharaoh	the central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. he used his power to protect his people (chief priest)	19
4732874422	ma'at	Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe	20
4732874423	pyramid	a large, triangular stone monument, used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king (large pyramids- old kingdom near memphis and royal tombs	21
4732874606	memphis	the capital of old kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile delta	22
4732874607	thebes	capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the middle and new kingdoms.( one of the chief gods of Egypt)	23
4732874846	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 and used to keep records	24
4732874847	papyrus	a reed that grows along the banks of the Nile river in Egypt	25
4732875410	mummy	a body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife	26
4732875554	harappa	site of one of the great cities of the Indus valley civilization of the 3rd millennium B.C.E. (northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation)	27
4732876091	mohenjo-daro	largest of the cities of the Indus valley civilization(located on the floodplain of the Indus river in contemporary Pakistan	28
4737400153	pastoralism	taking care of animals and tending them	29
4737401674	kinship	blood relationship	30
4737401954	clan	interrelated families	31
4737402393	matrilineal	on the mothers side or females	32
4737402860	patrilineal	on the fathers side or males	33
4737404488	nuclear families	a couple and their dependent childeren	34
4737406220	artisans	skilled trader	35
4737407431	mesopotamia aka	land between the rivers	36
4737408441	irrigation systems	canals and dams	37
4737409107	law code of hammurabi	severe punishments	38
4737410641	polytheism	belief in many gods	39
4737410993	book of the dead	contained rituals to ensure safe passage	40
4737413977	Nile river	used for trade, communication, agriculture	41
4737415701	bureaucrats	ran the county and collected taxes	42
4737416281	peasants	vast majority of people	43

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