AP World Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards

200871796	advent	The arrival of something that has been awaited OR (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment	0
200871797	transmission	the act of sending a message (trans means moving)	1
200871798	pantheon	(antiquity) a temple to all the gods OR a group of gods themselves	2
200871799	attest	authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity	3
200871800	relegating	authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions; giving power to those under you	4
200871801	subordinate	rank or order as less important or consider of less value	5
200871802	reveneration	the respect towards elderly people in societies (same as veneration)	6
200871803	Akkadians	this civilization included Semitic people living north of Sumeria; united city-states of Mesopotamia; first empire in history; established by Sargon the Great	7
200871804	Assyrians	Known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the way to centeral Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and swords, tunnels, and fearful military tactics to gain strength in their empire	8
200871805	Sudan	a region of northern Africa south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts	9
200871806	ziggurats	Sumerian temples made of sun-dried brick	10
200871807	cunneiform	a system of writing that used wedge shaped symbols to represent sounds ideas and objects;developed by ancient Sumerians	11
200871808	Mesolithic	of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic) about 15,000 years ago	12