Ap World History Flashcards

12438040	Neolithic	"New Stone Age" The last devision of the stone age. Charactarized by increasing domestication of animals and cultivation of crops.	0
12438041	Innovation	Explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people were invented independantly rather than spreading from 1 group to another.	1
12438042	Diffusion	The spread of ideas, objects,or traits from 1 culture to another.	2
12438043	Ziggurat	A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia	3
12438044	Bas Relief	A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background	4
12438045	Pictogram	A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept	5
12438046	Cuneiform	An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia	6
12438047	Ideogram	A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name	7
12438048	Gilgamesh	a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories	8
12518151	Code of Hammurabi	The collection of laws organized by Hammurabi for the people of Babylon to follow	9
12518152	Hieroglyphs	A writing system from Egypt that contains symbols in it. Is the same writing system used today.	10
12518153	Pharaoh	A title of an ancient Egyptian king.	11
12518154	Pyramids	A huge, triangular shaped monument of ancient Egypt built around a tomb	12
12518155	Sumerians	People who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions.	13
12518156	Civilization	Modern society with its conveniences	14
12518157	Daoism	A religion philosophical system of ancient China, which emerged in the 6th century B.C.E.	15
12518158	Zhou	A Chinese dynasty characterized by great intellectual achievements, including the rise of Confucianism and Taoism and the writing of the oldest known Chinese literature.	16
12518159	Confucius	Chinese philosopher whose Analects contain a collection of his sayings and dialogues compiled by disciples after his death.	17
12518160	Qin	A Chinese dynasty that established the first centralized imperial government in China. Much of the Great Wall of China was built during the rule of this dynasty.	18
12518161	Shi Huangdi	Emperor of the Qin dynasty	19
12518162	Great Wall	A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC	20
12518447	Han	Imperial dynasty that ruled China from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy	21
12518448	Mesopotamia	The land between the Tigris and Euphrates	22
12518449	City-States	Area under one government	23
12518450	Babylonians	The people who defeated the south, Judah	24
12518451	Kush	An ancient nubian kingdom whose rulers contolled egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C.	25
12518575	Harappa	Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation , and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials	26
12518576	Mahenjo Daro	One of the largest Indus Valley civilizations with accomidations for about 40,000 people; also had a suburb	27
12518911	Indus River	An Asian river	28
12518912	Ideographic	In this stage pictures were converted into ideograms, pictures that suggest names of objects and events that became symbols,.	29
12518913	Shang	The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC	30
12518914	Phoenicians	Sailing and trading people who had many colonies on the Mediterranean coast	31
12518915	Monotheism	belief in a single God	32