Ap world history Flashcards

4835149359	Civilization	Complex societies. Used to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits	0
4835149360	Neolithic	New Stone Age	1
4835149361	Foragers	People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. (Hunter gatherers)	2
4835149362	Culture	Socially transmitted patterns of actions and expressions such as clothing, tools, knowledge, and technology	3
4835149363	History	The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices	4
4835149364	Paleolithic	Old stone age	5
4835149365	Agricultural revolutions	The change from food gathering to food production	6
4835149366	Holocene	The geological era since the end of the great ice age about 11,000 years ago	7
4835149367	Megaliths	Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times	8
4835149368	Babylon	The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia.	9
4835149369	Sumerians	People who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd millennium BCE. We're responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture such as irrigation, technology and cuneiform	10
4835149370	Semitic	Family of related languages long spoken across parts of Western Asia and Northern Africa. Languages include Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician.	11
4835149371	City-state	Small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory.	12
4835149372	Hammurabi	Ruler of Babylon he conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws inscribed on a black stone pillar illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases	13
4835149373	Scribe	Administrator or scholar. Charged by the temple or palace with reading and writing tasks	14
4835149374	Ziggurat	A multistory, mud rock, pyramid shaped tower approached by Ramos and stairs	15
4835149375	Amulets	Small chants meant to protect the bearer from evil	16
4835149376	Cuneiform	System of writing in which wedge shaped symbols represented words or syllables. Originated in Mesopotamia	17
4835149377	Pharaoh	An Egyptian term for a king, who was believed to be a god on earth	18
4835149378	Pyramid	Series of stone platforms laid one on top of the other	19
4835149379	Hieroglyphics	Form of writing using picture symbols standing for words, syllables, or sounds	20
4835149380	Papyrus	Paper like writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other people's in the Middle East	21
4835149381	Mummy	Body preserved by chemical process or circumstances often believed the deceased will need it again in the afterlife	22
4838197774	Loess	Yellowish brown dust that gave the yellow river of China its distinctive name	23
4840824022	Ma'at	The divinely authorized order of the universe	24
4841084272	Mohenjo-Daro and harappa	We're two Indus Valley civilizations	25