Ap world history Flashcards

4822706964	Venus figurines	Intricate carvings or statues of women in paleolithic culture	0
4822706965	Clovis culture	Culture that emerged about 13,000 years ago across North America	1
4822706966	Shamans	People believed to be skilled at dealing with spirit world	2
4822706967	Gobekli Tepe or "potbelly hill"	5 acre complex in southeastern turkey dating back almost 12,000 years	3
4829140989	Fertile crescent	In southwest Asia including present day Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Jordan and southern turkey was the first place to have a full agricultural revolution	4
4829140990	Diffusion	Gradual spread of agricultural technique with out extensive movement of agricultural people	5
4829140991	Bantu migration	Starting around 3000 BCE Bantu people from Nigeria and Cameroon move east and south driving out Paleolithic people	6
4829140992	Pastoral societies	Society where farming was difficult so reliance on domesticated animals was big	7
4829140993	Catal Huyuk	Early agricultural village in south turkey	8
4829140994	Chiefdoms	Societies with organized politics with inherited positions	9
4842300840	Indus Valley civilizations	Civilization that arose during the third millenium BCE. By 2000 BCE contained more area then any others. Had elaborately planned cities	10
4842300841	Central Asian/ Oxus civilizations	Civilization took shape right after 2200 BCE and contained compounds, workshops and temples surrounded by walls and gates	11
4842300842	Olmec civilization "mother civilization"	Final first civilization on the Gulf of Mexico around 1200 BCE. The cities arose from series of chiefdoms. Very ceremonial and may have created first written language in Americas	12
4842399581	Uruk	Mesopotamia's largest city	13
4842399582	Epic of Gilgamesh	Mesopotamia's ancient epic poem describing Uruk	14
4842399583	Mohenjo Daro/Harappa	Large Mesopotamian cities which flourished on Indus River. Intricate streets and sewage systems	15
4842399584	Code of Hammurabi	Famous set of rules or laws	16
4842399585	Patriarchy	Women's submission to men	17
4861745827	Rise of the state	States were organized around cities or large areas and held ancient civilizations in order. Usually King has power	18
4870509984	Egypt	Civilization surrounding the Nile relying on its flooding for agriculture	19
4870509985	Sumer	Mesopotamian civilization located in the southern Tigris-Euphrates region	20
4870509986	Nubia	Civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile valley	21