ap world history Flashcards

98122702	agricultural villages	Permanent villages, without kings, flourished well, modest social inequalities	0
98122703	fertile crescent	Name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land stretching from the lower Nile valley, along the east Mediterranean coast, and into Syria and present-day Iraq where agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 B.C.	1
98122704	sumer	An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing.	2
98122705	sargon of akkad	Akkadian king who conquered Sumeria by using city states to form the 1st empire	3
98122706	gligamesh	legandary Summerian king	4
98122707	ziggurat	a large, stepped platform temple thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to the city's chief god or goddess by the assyrians and babylonians	5
98122708	pictograms	the earliest forms of writing in which pictures represent words or ideas	6
98122709	cuneiform	Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets	7
98122710	ideograms	The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English.	8
98122711	code of hammurabi	the set of 282 laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety	9