AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 198839987 | Cultural Diffusion | the spread of cultural elements from one society to another | 0 | |
| 198839988 | Demography | the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations | 1 | |
| 198839989 | Intervening Obstacles | Any forces or factors that may limit human migration | 2 | |
| 198839990 | Neolithic Revolution | The period of the stone age associated with the ancient Agriculture Revoultion. It follows the Paleolithic period. | 3 | |
| 198839991 | Polytheism | Believing in multiple gods. | 4 | |
| 198839992 | Specialization of Labor | Focusing work effort on a particular product or a single task. | 5 | |
| 198839993 | Cuneiform | A system of writing in which wedge shaped symbols represented words or syllables. | 6 | |
| 198839994 | Mohenjo-Daro | Largest of the cities of the Indus Valley civilation. | 7 | |
| 198839995 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. | 8 | |
| 198839996 | Division of Labor | A manufacturing technique that breaks down a craft into many simple and repetitive tasks that can be preformed by unskilled workers. | 9 | |
| 198839997 | Independent Invention | A trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other | 10 | |
| 198839998 | Migrations | Movements of a people from one region to another | 11 | |
| 198839999 | Push Factor | Inducing people to move out of their present location | 12 | |
| 198840000 | Sumerians | The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium. | 13 | |
| 198840001 | city-state | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. | 14 | |
| 198840002 | Pharaoh | The central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. | 15 | |
| 198840003 | Aryans | Nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled | 16 | |
| 198840004 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, and to grant power to the ruler of China. | 17 | |
| 198840005 | Horticulture | The cultivation of plants | 18 | |
| 198840006 | Marker Events | Events that change the course of history | 19 | |
| 198840007 | Periodization | Historian's attempt to break down history into managable segments | 20 | |
| 198840008 | Pull Factor | Factor such as freedom or employment opportunities that attract a person to a country. | 21 | |
| 198840009 | Hammurabi | Amorite ruler of Babylon is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar. | 22 | |
| 198840010 | Ziggurat | A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. | 23 | |
| 198840011 | Hieroglyphics | System of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. | 24 | |
| 198840012 | Dravidians | One of the main groups of people in India | 25 | |
| 198840013 | Monsoon | A seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean caused by the difing landmasses of African and Asia and the slowly changing ocean water. | 26 |