AP World 1-6 Flashcards

209903203	Agrarian	Having to do with farming or agriculture.	0
209903204	Agriculturists	Generate their own foods from planting	1
209903205	Archaeology	the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures	2
209903206	Asceticism	rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint	3
209903207	Aryans	Indo-European speaking nomads who entered India from the Central Asian steppes between 1500 and 1000 BC and greatly affected Indian society.	4
209903208	Austronesian	people who as early 2000 B.C.E. began to explore and settle islands of pacific ocean basin	5
209903209	Bureaucracy	A form of organization that operates through impersonal, uniform rules and procedures.	6
209903210	Brahman	a member of a social and cultural elite	7
209903211	Brahmins	special priests of the Indo-Aryan societywho knew the proper forms and rulesof their complicated religious rituals	8
209903212	Caste	a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth	9
209903213	Cataracts	floods of water; waves	10
209903214	Civilzation	The type of culture and society developed by a particular nation or region or in a particular epoch: Mayan civilization; the civilization of ancient Rome	11
209903215	Cuneiform	an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia	12
209903216	Domestication	the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food	13
209903217	Dynasty	a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family	14
209903218	Economic Specialization	Focusing on one product or service	15
209903219	Egalitarian	promoting equal rights for all people	16
209903220	Erosion	condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind	17
209903221	Foraging	hunting and gathering	18
209903222	Hammurabi's Code	a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life	19
209903223	Hieroglyphics	an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds	20
209903224	Hittites	A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria	21
209903225	Indo-European	People from around the the Black Sea and the Caspian sea; Between 2500 and 2000 BC, they migrated all over Eurasia; known as Hittites or Aryans, became ancestors of Romans and Greeks	22
209903226	Karma	(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation	23
209903227	Loess	fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because loess soil is not compacted, easily worked, but it leaves the region vulnerable to earthquakes	24
209903228	Maize	tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties	25
209903229	Mandate of Heaven	a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source	26
209903230	Matriarchal	Relating to a social system in which the mother is head of the family.	27
209903231	Mercenary	a person hired to fight for another country than their own	28
209903232	Metallurgy	the science and technology of metals	29
209903233	Moksha	The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.	30
209903234	Monotheism	belief in a single God	31
209903235	Neolithic	New Stone Age	32
209903236	Nomad	a member of a group that settles briefly in one place and then moves on to another	33
209903237	Obsidian	A usually black or banded, hard volcanic glass that displays shiny, curved surfaces when fractured and is formed by rapid cooling of lava	34
209903238	Oracle Bones	cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were heated	35
209903239	Paleolithic	Old Stone Age	36
209903240	Pastoralism	A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.	37
209903241	Patriarchal	relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority	38
209903242	Pharaoh	a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader	39
209903243	Pictographs	pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing	40
209903244	Polytheism	Belief in many gods	41
209903245	Samsara	the Hindu cycle of death and rebirth; in Buddhism means rebirth	42
209903246	Sati	a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced.	43
209903247	Savannah	a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions	44
209903248	Self-Sufficient	able to provide there own needs	45
209903249	Varna	a basic subdivision of humanity in the Hindu caste system(color base)	46
209903250	Vedas	sacred texts in the Hindu religion, they are a set of four collections of hymns and religious ceremonies transmitted by memory through the centuries by Aryan priests	47
209903251	Veneration	respect or awe inspired by the dignity, wisdom, dedication, or talent of a person	48
209903252	Zoroastrianism	A religion originating in ancient Iran with the prophet Zoroaster. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda, Emphasizing truth-telling, purity, and reverence for nature, the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil (120)	49