Ap World History, Unit 1 Ch 2 Flashcards

Ap World History, Unit 1 Ch 2

79559184	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.	0
79559185	Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia	a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates	1
79559186	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
79559187	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.	3
79559188	Gilgamesh	a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories.	4
79559189	Ziggurat	a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians.	5
79559190	Pictograms	the earliest forms of writing in which pictures represent words or ideas.	6
79559191	Cuneiform	Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets	7
79559192	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
79559193	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.	9