Ap world history ch1 Flashcards

31405614	artisan	someone who crafts an object with raw materials	0
31405617	city state	a self-governing urban center and the agricultural territories it controlled.	1
31405618	civilization	when human society has advanced to share elements of government, architecture, ideas, etc.	2
31405619	Cuneiform	wedge shaped writing / the "first" writing done with a stylus on a damp clay tablet and preserved through drying in the sun	3
31405622	dynasty	when rule of a country or empire passes down through the family from one generation to the next	4
31405625	Gilgamesh	the epic story of the king, Gilgamesh, who searched for immortality. This is a Sumerian legend and is believed to be the first story	5
31405627	irrigation	supplying water to agricultural land by artificial means	6
31405629	polytheism	the worship of many gods	7
31405631	scribe	someone who writes / usually a revered position in ancient society	8
31405632	Semitic	refers to a family of languages spoken in parts of western Asia and northern Africa	9
31405638	ziggurat	multistory, mud-brick pyramid shaped tower approached my ramps and stairs. administrative building.	10
31405748	farming technology	tools used to make and grow food	11
31405749	Fertile Crescent	first domestication of plants and animals occurs here	12
31405750	Domesticate	To tame animals and wild plants so that they would have a steady supply of food	13
31405751	Mesopotamia	Greek meaning of the land between 2 rivers. Name for the Large Plain that stretches between the Tigris River and the east of the Euphrates River on the west	14
31405753	Delta	A marshy area where a river splits into smaller streams	15
31405754	Irrigate	To bring water to their fields	16
31405755	Dikes	A low earthen wall	17
31405758	Barter economy	goods were exchanged for other goods	18
31405759	Scribe	are people who sell their writing skills for a living, kept records and accounts on clay table	19
31405764	Architecture	the art of designing buildings	20
31405766	Cuneiform	language written with a reed to make strokes and wedges.	21
31405769	Hammurabi's Code of Laws	the series of laws made by Hammurabi, a king of the group of people called Babylonians. It is very detailed and it is recorded on a Stela.	22
31407610	holocene	a warming period in the neolithic age	23
31407611	pastoralism	to follow herds of animals	24
31407612	Sargon	formed a uniform system of weights and measures and standardized formats for documents and unified Mesopotamia	25
31407613	lugal	"big man," or early form of king	26
31407614	amulet	a trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil	27
31407615	patrilineal	inheritance passed through the father	28
31407616	matrilineal	inheritance passed through the mother	29
31407617	Nippur	important religious city, an early city-state in Mesopotamia	30
31408028	megaliths	big stone rocks	31
31408029	pasturalists	people who move with herds of animals	32
31408030	history	transformation, development,transmission	33
31408031	Djoser	first pharaoh to build pyramids	34
31408032	Ra	sun god	35
31412898	osiris	god of underworld	36
31412899	hieroglyphics	Egyptian writing system consisting of pictures	37
31412900	Menes	unified Egypt and became their leader	38
31412901	highest social class of Egypt	king & high-ranking officials	39
31412902	second highest social class of Egypt	local leaders, officials, priests, artisans, farmers	40
31412903	third highest social class of Egypt	peasants	41
31412904	highest class of Mesopotamia	royalty, high-ranking officials, warriors, priests, merchants, artisans	42
31412905	Second highest class of Mesopotamia	farmers	43
31412906	Third highest class of Mesopotamia	slaves	44
31412907	Anthropomorphic (gods in mesopotamia)	give human qualities to non-living things	45
31412908	gods in egypt	stable and not anthropomorphic	46
31412909	Marduk and Tiamot	two main gods of mesopotamia. tiamot (female sea god) was killed by marduk (male god)	47
31412910	forager	hunters and food gatherers	48
31412911	Neolithic Age (common era)	agriculture revolution where farming and agriculture took over. more complex stone tools for farming.	49
31412912	Paleolithic B.C.E (before common era)	foragers gather food. primitive stone tools are used.	50
31412913	Neolithic time period	8000 b.c.e - 2000 b.c.e	51
31412914	Paleolithic time period	2 million- 8000 b.c.e	52
31412915	Stone Age	era where most tools were made of stone	53
31412916	Babylon	most important city in southern Mesopotamia in the second and first millennia b.c.e	54
31412917	Mesopotamia	means "land between the rivers"	55
31412918	Mesopotamia's abundant resource	clay.	56
31412919	ma'at	the divinely authorized order of the universe	57
31412920	pyramid	series of stone platforms laid one on top of the other	58
31412921	Memphis and Thebes	capitals of ruling dynasties in Egypt	59
31412922	papyrus	writing material in Egypt	60
31412923	mummy	corpse filled with packing materials and is immersed with cadaver.	61
31412924	Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa	early cities in the Indus Valley founded on irrigation, central planning. had sewage lines.	62
31412925	egalitarian	equal. everyone has rights.	63