World History Pre-AP Fall Review Flashcards

275905129	nomads	member of a group that has no permanent name, wandering from place to place in search of food and H2O	0
275905130	pre-history	period of time before writing	1
275905131	Paleolithic Period	Prehistoric--peroid of time in which people used stone tools and weapons	2
275905132	Neolithic Period	people learned to polish stone tools, make pottery,grow crops and raise animals	3
275905133	cities first emerged in	River valleys	4
275905134	the First civilizaton was in	the Mesopotamia river valley	5
275905135	Mesopotamia	first civilization located along the Tigris-Eurphrates rivers	6
275905136	Torah	duhhhh	7
275905137	Monotheism	worshipping ONE god	8
275905138	city planning and plumbing experts	Indus valley civilizaation grid system	9
275905139	Oracle bones	animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chines priests to communicate with ancient gods	10
275905140	Mandate of Heaven	in Chinese history,the divine apporval thought to be the basis of royal authority	11
275905141	theocracy	govt controlled by religious leaderss	12
275905142	pharoh	king of ancient Egypt, considereda god as well as apolitical +military leader	13
275905143	Pyramids	built in Egypt as tombs for Pharohs	14
275905144	Mummification	porcess of drying corpses to prevent decay	15
275905145	polytheism	worshippping more than one god	16
275905146	Hieroglyphics	egyptian writing systme where picttures represented symbols or ideas	17
275905147	Hammurabi's Code	MOST FAMOUS early code of law in Babylon	18
275905148	Important geography of Greece	separated by mountains +hills---no place more than 85 miles from the sea	19
275905149	Polis	Greek city-state	20
275905150	Acropolis	a fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city	21
275905151	Democracy	govt controlled by its citizens either directly or through representatives	22
275905152	Oligarchy	govt in which power is in hands of a FEW people--esp in whch one rule is base upon wealth	23
275905153	Nike of Saothrace	statue of a goddess	24
275905154	Hippocrates	father of medicine--Hippocaratic oath	25
275905155	Herodotus	father of History	26
275905156	Socrates	questioned conventionala wisdom to improve the soul	27
275905157	Aristotle	stressed moderation and balance in behavior--wrote on logic and experimentattion	28
275905158	Plato	decrase importance of spirituality , increase importance of human thinking (similar to Confuscius	29
275905159	Pythagoras	Pythagorean theorem	30
275905160	differnces between Sparta and Athens	Sparta--create a good soldier,learned to fight,weak babies left to die---travel FORBIDDEN AThens---create a good citizen beatuiful , hate what is ugly, reading, writing,arats were IMPT	31
275905161	Romulus	according to mythology he named Rome	32
275905162	Plebian	commoners who pleaded for rights	33
275905163	Patrician	aristocrats	34
275905164	Hannibal	general in Carthages army:hated Rome & sought to destroy it	35
275905165	Cato	senator who wanted to destroy Carthage	36
275905166	Punic wars	rome fought carthage & won dominance of the Mediterranean defeated Hannibals army	37
275905167	Julius Caesar	brilliant general--March 15 44 BCE conspirators assinated him	38
275905168	Pax Roman	the peace of Rome	39
275905169	Octavian(Augustus)	Caesars heir--gets Rome	40
275905170	Rome fell in	476 year	41
275905171	Roman Law	always supreme;ruler governed , not personal whim,focus on laws:not bureacracy, tolerated local & political diversity	42
275905172	Differences betw Roman Cath Church & Eastern Orthodox Church	RC--latin Lang; POPE ruled:used icons EO--Greek lang	43
275905173	Icons	religious image---Iconoclats--supporterrs of the emperor	44
275905174	JUSTINIAN;S code	civil law;uniform code that regulated marriage, slavery, property,womens rights	45
275905175	Iconclatic controversy	icon breaker	46
275905176	Constantinople fell in	1453 to the OTTOMAN Turks	47
275905177	New Rome	Constantinople fell in 1453	48
275905178	IVAN III	Ivan the Great first CZAR of Russia--kicks Mongols out	49
275905179	Saint Cyril	Cyrillic alphabet created for Russians	50
275905180	Third Rome	Moscow	51
275905181	Mongols	norsmen from central Asia made heir way ato Russia under the rule Ghengus Khan	52
275905182	Muhammad	born in Mecca---only one god (allah)	53
275905183	Hajj	pilgrmage to Mecca;holy duty to Muslims	54
275905184	Qu'ran	holy book of Islam	55
275905185	allah	god	56
275905186	Mosque	Islamic place of worship	57
275905187	Mecca	where Mohammad was born	58
275905188	Medina	Muhammaed ycreated an agreement that aligned his own people with arabs & Jews as a single community	59
275905189	Jerusalem	holy city in Israel	60
275905190	Kaab a	black Mystical box in Mecca--most holy location in Islam	61
275905191	Five Pillars of Islam	faith,prayer,charity fasting, Pilgramage	62