A.P. world History Chapter 2 Flashcards

33685783	Netholic	THE Last division of the stone age, immediately preceding the develpoment of metallurgy and corresponding to the ninth-fith millennia	0
33685784	innovation	The explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people were invented independently rather than spread from one group to another	1
33685785	diffusion	The spread of new ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another	2
33685786	Ziggurat	A temple tower of ancient mesopotamia, constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size, usually with shrine on top built of blue enamel bricks, the color of the sky	3
33685787	bas relief	In sculpture, relief is a term for any work in which the forms stand out from the background. in bas (or low) relief, the design projects only slightly from the background and the outlines are not undercut	4
33685788	Pictogram	A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept	5
33685789	Cuneiform	Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets	6
33685790	Ideogram	in written language, a character or symbol that represents an idea or thing	7
33685791	Polis	Greek city-state	8
35686426	gilgamesh	the epic story of the king, Gilgamesh, who searched for immortality. This is a Sumerian legend and is believed to be the first story	9
35686427	sumer	an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c.,	10
35686428	agricultural village	A relatively small, egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture. Starting over 10,000 years ago, people began to cluster in agricultural villages as they stayed in one place to tend their crops.	11
38044169	Sargon Of Akkad	an ancient Mesopotamian ruler who reigned approximately 2334-2279 BC, and was one of the earliest of the world's great empire builders, conquering all of southern Mesopotamia as well as parts of Syria, Anatolia, and Elam (western Iran). He established the region's first Semitic dynasty and was considered the founder of the Mesopotamian military tradition.	12