AP World History Sloothaak Flashcards

History vocab 1-6

210098895	Agrarian	relating to rural matters	0
210098896	Agriculturists	Generate their own foods from planting	1
210098897	Archaeology	the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures	2
210098898	Aryans	Nomadic warriors from Central Asia who migrated into India around 1500 BCE. They are responsible for many aspects of current Indian culture including their language, sacred texts called the Vedas, and a system of government that later evolved into the caste system.	3
210098899	Asceticism	the idea of self denial, self sacrifice, even self mutilation that was done to communicate with the gods and began to take the place of sacrifice in ancient India	4
210098900	Austronesian	people who as early 2000 B.C.E. began to explore and settle islands of pacific ocean basin	5
210098901	Bureaucracy	a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials	6
210098902	Brahman	a single spiritual power that Hindus believe lives in everything	7
210098903	Brahmins	special priests of the Indo-Aryan society who knew the proper forms and rules of their complicated religious rituals	8
210098904	Caste	one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; social stratification; prestige	9
210098905	Cataracts	dangerous whitewater rapids. A series of these were located to the south of Egypt protecting it from water invasion from this direction.	10
210098906	Civilization	a form of culture characterized by cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology	11
210098907	Cuneiform	an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia	12
210098908	Domestication	the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food	13
210098909	Dynasty	a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time	14
210098910	Economic Specialization	individuals or groups of people who concentrate on one product or service	15
210098911	Egalitarian	A person who believes in the equality of all people	16
210098912	Erosion	a gradual decline of something	17
210098913	Foraging	A term for hunting and gathering	18
210098914	Hammurabi's Code	A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes and punishments to help judges impose penalties.	19
210098915	Hieroglyphics	an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds	20
210098916	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
210098917	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
210098918	Karma	in Hinduism and Buddhism, the totality of the good and bad deeds performed by a person, which is believed to determine his or her fate after rebirth	23
210098919	Loess	a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind	24
210098920	Maize	tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties	25
210098921	Mandate of Heaven	Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of China.	26
210098922	Matriarchal	pertaining to rule or leadership by women or mothers	27
210098923	Mercenary	a soldier who serves for pay in a foreign army	28
210098924	Metallurgy	the science or art of metals. It includes the study of their properties and structure, the separation and refining of metals from their ores, the production of alloys, and the shaping and treatment of metals by heat and rolling.	29
210098925	Moksha	The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.	30
210098926	Monotheism	the belief that there is only one God	31
210098927	Neolithic	latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) also known as the New Stone Age	32
210098928	Nomad	A member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water	33
210098929	Obsidian	a green or black volcanic glass found in the Valley of Mexico and used to make razor sharp weapons.	34
210098930	Oracle Bones	animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future	35
210098931	Paleolithic	second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC also known as the Old Stone Age	36
210098932	Pastoralism	A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.	37
210098933	Patriarchal	relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority	38
210098934	Pharaoh	a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader	39
210098935	Pictographs	pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing	40
210098936	Polytheism	The belief in many gods	41
210098937	Samsara	the wheel of rebirth or reincarnation; the this-worldly realm in which rebirth occurs	42
210098938	Sati	Hindu custom that called for a wife to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral pyre	43
210098939	Savannah	a tropical or subtropical grassland containing scattered trees and drought-resistant undergrowth	44
210098940	Self-Sufficient	able to provide for oneself without the help of others	45
210098941	Varna	The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class, the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class, the Vaishya merchant/farmer class, and the Shudra laborer class.	46
210098942	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
210098943	Veneration	extreme respect and reverence; worship	48
210098944	Zoroastrianism	Persian religion founded by Zoroaster; taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong, and that goodness would triumph in the end	49