AP World History Flashcards

4787182546	Agricultural Revolution	period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet, into an agricultural period characterized by a diet of cultivated foods; or a further transition from a living a more advanced and more productive form of agriculture	0
4787182547	Artifact	an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest	1
4787182548	Bantu Speaking People	Ethnic groups from Africa who migrated through Africa spreading their language and religion	2
4787182549	Brahmin	Highest level of the Hindu caste system	3
4787182550	Civilization	the process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social development and organization	4
4787182551	Climate	the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period	5
4787182552	Covenant	An agreement	6
4787182553	Cultural diffusion	the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another	7
4787182554	Cuneiform	Ancient writing used by civilizations in Mesopotamia that resembles hieroglyphics	8
4787182555	Disciple	a personal follower of Jesus during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles	9
4787182556	Dynasty	A ruling family	10
4787182557	Foraging	Searching for food	11
4787182558	Hieroglyphics	Writing used by Egyptians that uses many symbols and characters	12
4787182559	Indo-European	A widespread family of many languages that originated from parts of Europe and Asia	13
4787182560	Jati	The name for India's caste system	14
4787182561	Karma	the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences	15
4787182562	Mandate of Heaven	an ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly	16
4787182563	Matrilineal	based on kinship with the mother or the female line	17
4787182564	Monotheism	Belief on only one god	18
4787182565	Monsoon	Seasonal wind that brings wet or dry seasons to South and SE Asia	19
4787182566	Neolithic age	The beginning of the use of cultivating and use of stone tools and weapons	20
4787182567	Neolithic revolution	the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement	21
4787182568	Oracle bones	Animal bones that if you wrote a question on them, heated it, and cracked it to reveal the answer	22
4787182569	Patriarchal	Describes a society where men were superior to women	23
4787182570	Pharoah	Kings of ancient Egypt	24
4787182571	Polytheism	Belief in multiple gods	25
4787182572	Reincarnation	Dying and being reborn to move up in the caste system	26
4787182573	Slash and burn cultivation	Type of farming where the farmer "slashes" down forests and uses the very fertile soil to farm until its infertile	27
4787182574	Specialization of labor	Focusing on one type of work to produce high quality products	28
4787182575	Torah	Religious text of Judaism	29
4787182576	Untouchables	The lowest level of the caste system	30
4787182577	Varna	Levels of the caste system	31
4787182578	Vedas	Most ancient Hindu scriptures	32
4787182579	Yin and yang	Negative and positive principles whose interaction influences the destinies of living things	33
4787182580	Ziggurat	Mesopotamian temple tower that resembles pyramids	34