AP World HIstory: Ancient times Flashcards
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| 6767494 | Nomads | no language, fire, or stone tools. just wanted shelter and food. no farming or other skills. | 0 | |
| 6767495 | Hunter-Gatherers | moved to follow food and climate. | 1 | |
| 6767496 | Pastorals | domesticated animals, little farming, male dominated. | 2 | |
| 6767497 | Neolithic Revolution | permanent. survival skills, ownership, specialized labor, animal labor, boats and carts, metallurgy. followed by the Bronze Age. | 3 | |
| 6767498 | Mesopotamia | between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. part of the fertile crescent. unpredictable floods | 4 | |
| 6767667 | Sumer | cuneiform, trade w/ wheel, calender, math based on 60, polytheistic, city-states, ziggurats, overthrown in 1700 BCE | 5 | |
| 6767668 | Akkad | created first law code in cuneiform. overthrew sumer. | 6 | |
| 6767669 | Babylon | overthrew Akkad. king hammurabi's code. fell to the kassites. | 7 | |
| 6767670 | kassites | overthrew babylon | 8 | |
| 6767671 | Hittites | used iron, had a super military | 9 | |
| 6767672 | Assyrians | adopted military stuff from Hitties. Big meanies. conquered the fertile crescent. capital at Nineveh. conquererd by Medes and Chaldeans. | 10 | |
| 6767673 | Chaldeans | overthrew assyrians. rebuilt Babylon. fell to the Persians | 11 | |
| 6767674 | Persian Empire | built roads: Great Roayl Roads (1600m from Perian Gulf to the Aegean Sea) | 12 | |
| 6767733 | Lydians | invented currency in trade rather than the barter system. spread on trade routes | 13 | |
| 6767734 | Phoenicians | had naval city-states along the Medditereanean. Invented an alphabet w/ 22 letters. Greeks adopted it. | 14 | |
| 6767765 | Hebrews | Judaism. est Isreal in Palestine. got punked n conquered but maintained identity. | 15 |