ap world vocab summer Flashcards

199939979	phoenician	a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.	0
199939980	river-valley civilization	civilization that is always on a river; i.e.--Nile, Tigris & Euphrates, Indus (Ganges), and Huang He (Yellow)	1
199939981	state	a politically organized body of people under a single government	2
199939982	steppe	extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)	3
199939983	amenhotep IV	early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC)	4
199939984	bantu	of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture	5
199939985	bantu migrations	the name for the gradual movement of the bantu people, who over the course of over a millenia spread the family of bantu languages over sub-saharan africa	6
199939986	demography	the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations	7
199939987	coptic	language spoken/written in Egypt that followed ancient Egyptian language and contained some ancient Egyptian words	8
199939988	savanna	a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions	9
199939989	sorghum	cereal grass cultivated for forage and grain; drought resistant, e.g. milo, Sudan grass; poor source of protein	10
199939990	hebrews	the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob)	11
199939991	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 (p.64)	12
199939992	indo-european migrations	Tribes from southern Russia that migrated to India as well as Europe and distributed language	13
199939993	judaism	the monotheistic religion founded by Abraham and whose followers are called Jews	14
199939994	sudan	a region of northern Africa south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts	15