ap world history vocab. unit 1 Flashcards

216896628	8000 BCE	Beginnings of Agriculture	0
216896629	3000 BCE	Beginnings of Bronze Age	1
216896630	1300 BCE	Iron Age	2
216896631	6th Century BCE	Beginnings of Confucianism Buddhism and Daoism	3
216896632	5th Century BCE	Greek Golden Age	4
216896633	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	5
216896634	221 BCE	Qin Unified China	6
216896635	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	7
216896636	180 CE	End of Pax Romana	8
216896637	220 CE	End of Han Dynasty	9
216896638	330 CE	Roman Capital Moved to Constantinople	10
216896639	4th Century CE	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	11
216896640	476 CE	Fall of Rome	12
216896641	527 CE	Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire	13
216896642	100,000 BCE	Homo Sapiens, Hunter Gatherer, Out of Africa Migrations	14
216896643	10,000 BCE	Stone Age, Cave Paintings, Cro-Magnon	15
216896644	3000 BCE	Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, Pyramids, Menes	16
216896645	2000 BCE	Earliest Silk Roads, Steppes, Pastoralist	17
216896646	1800 BCE	Founding of Judaism, Monotheism, Abraham	18
216896647	1750 BCE	Epic of Gilgamesh, Cuneiform, Hammurabi	19
216896648	1766-1122 BCE	Bronze Metallurgy, Oracle Bones, Shang Dynasty	20
216896649	500 BCE	Era of Warring States, Veneration, Confucius	21
216896650	486-465 BCE	The Royal Road, Satrap, Xerxes	22
216896651	325 BCE	Hellenism, Alexander the Great	23
216896652	325 CE	Edict of Milan, Christianity, Constantine	24
216896653	450 CE	Germanic Invasions, Barbarian, Attila The Hun	25
216896654	agriculture	the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock	26
216896655	Agrarian	relating to rural matters	27
216896656	Bands/Clans	Small groups of families living and acting cooperatively	28
216896657	Barbarian	a member of an uncivilized people	29
216896658	Bureaucracy	system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials	30
216896659	Civilization	a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)	31
216896660	City-States	Different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by different rulers	32
216896661	Classical	of or characteristic of a form or system felt to be of first significance before modern times	33
216896662	Domestication	the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food	34
216896663	Economy	frugality in the expenditure of money or resources	35
216896664	Egalitarian	A person who believes in the equality of all people	36
216896665	Emperor	The ruler of an empire	37
216896666	Empire	a group of countries under a single authority	38
216896667	Feudalism	a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service	39
216896668	Foraging	the act of searching for food and provisions	40
216896669	Hierarchy	the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body	41
216896670	Hierarchical	in order of rank or authority	42
216896671	Hunter-Gatherer	a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.	43
216896672	Irrigation	supplying land with water through a network of canals	44
216896673	Monarchy	state ruled over by a single person, as a king or queen	45
216896674	Monotheism	belief in a single God	46
216896675	Neolithic	New Stone Age	47
216896676	Nomadic	wandering, moving about from place to place	48
216896677	Pastoral	rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor	49
216896678	Philosophy	a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group	50
216896679	Polytheism	belief in multiple Gods	51
216896680	River Valley	the fertile land surrounding a river	52
216896681	Sedentary	not migratory; settled	53
216896682	Settlement	the act of colonizing	54
216896683	Subsistence	existence; means of subsisting; means of support; livelihood; V. subsist: exist; maintain life (at a meager level)	55
216896684	Surplus	a quantity much larger than is needed	56
216896685	Sustenance	a source of materials to nourish the body	57
216896686	Theocracy	government by divine power or priests	58
216896687	Traditional	consisting of or derived from tradition	59
216896688	Urbanization	the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban	60
216896689	Vassals	members of the elite who received land or a benefice from a lord in return for military service and loyalty	61
216896690	Alexander The Great	son of Philip II; received military training in Macedonian army and was a student of Aristotle; great leader; conquered much land in Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; goal was to conquer the known world	62
216896691	Analects of Confucius	Record of Confucius values	63
216896692	Bronze Age	a period of human culture between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, characterized by the use of weapons and implements made of bronze	64
216896693	Byzantium	a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 (East Rome)	65
216896694	Calender	a system of organizes time that defines the feging length and division of a year	66
216896695	Code of Hammurabi	the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety	67
216896696	Cuneiform	Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets	68
216896697	Democracy	a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them	69
216896698	Eight Fold Path	eight guides to thought and conduct in the Buddhism religion	70
216896699	Four Noble Truths	1) All life is full of suffering, pain, and sorrow. 2) The cause of suffering is nonvirtue, or negative deeds and mindsets such as hated and desire. 3) The only cure for suffering is to overcome nonvirture. 4) The way to overcome nonvirtue is to follow the Eightfold Path (Buddhism)	71
216896700	Gothic Migrations	Germanic nomads pushed into West Rome by the Huns	72
216896701	Great Wall	Chinese defensive fortification built to keep out northern nomadic invaders; began during the reign of Shi Huangdi.	73
216896702	Han Dynasty	imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization	74
216896703	Hellenism	the principles and ideals associated with classical Greek civilization	75
216896704	The Huns	warrior nomads who built their own imperial confederacy in central europe and invaded europe in 270 CE from Europe/ Russia to Manchuria	76
216896705	Indian Ocean Trade	connected to Europe, Africa, and China.; worlds richest maritime trading network and an area of rapid Muslim expansion.	77
216896706	Iron Age	the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons	78
216896707	Jewish Diaspora	the global dispersion of the jewish people from their ancestral homeland, with a history dating back to millennia	79
216896708	Legalism	strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit	80
216896709	Pax Romana	A period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 B.C. to A.D. 180.	81
216896710	Pyramids	Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top	82
216896711	Roman Republic	the ancient Roman state from 509 BC until Augustus assumed power in 27 BC	83
216896712	Roman Senate	A council whose members were the heads of wealthy, landowning families. Originally an advisory body to the early kings, in the era of the Roman Republic the Senate effectively governed the Roman state and the growing empire. (148)	84
216896713	Shang Civilization	China's first dynasty almost 2000 BCE	85
216896714	Shi Huang Di	Qin dynasty - reunified china, legalistic, introduced the standard units of money, unified the great wall, buried with 7000 terracotta soldiers, hated confucianism	86
216896715	Siddhartha Gautama	founder of Buddism; born a prince; left his father's wealth to find the cause of human suffering; also know as Buddha	87
216896716	Silk Road Trade	The most famous of the trading routes established by pastoral nomads connecting the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and Mediterranean civilizations; transmitted goods and ideas among civilization.	88
216896717	The Torah	The Jewish Bible	89
216896718	The Vedas of Hinduism	Aryan hyms orignally transmitted orally but written down in sacred books from the 6th century b.c.e.	90
216896719	Ziggurats	a temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories	91
216896720	8000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of agriculture	92
216896721	3000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's	93
216896722	1300 B.C.E.	Iron Age	94
216896723	6th century B.C.E.	life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism)	95
216896724	5th C.B.C.E.	Greek Golden Age - philosophers.	96
216896725	323 B.C.E.	Alexander the Great	97
216896726	221 B.C.E.	Qin unified China	98
216896727	32 C.E.	Beginnings of Christianity	99
216896728	180 C.E.	end of Pax Romana	100
216896729	220 C.E.	end of Han Dynasty	101
216896730	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	102
216896731	4th C	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	103
216896732	476	Fall of Rome	104
216896733	527	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	105