AP World History Flashcards

4370159822	Foraging societies	Hunter-gatherer clans; small groups of people who traveled from point to point as the climate and availibility of plants and animals dictated	0
4370159823	Pastoral societies	Characterized by domestication of animals; found im montainous and plenty of rainfall areas	1
4370159824	Sumer	Southern part of Mesopotamia; successful agriculture and river management; came up with cuneiform	2
4370159825	Cuneiform	Used to set laws, treaties, and religious amd social customs and latwr trade; made by Sumerians	3
4370159826	Ziggurats	Terraced pyramids to appease gods; first used by Sumerians	4
4370159827	Babylon	Overrun Akkad (north of Sumer); in Mesopotamia	5
4370159828	The Code of Hammurabi	Babylonian; code of laws or extensive code that dealt with every part of daily life	6
4370159829	Hittites	Invaded Babylon; dominated region in 1500 BCE; learned how to use iron	7
4370159830	Assyrians	Learned to use iron the way the Hittites used to defeat them; established Nineveh as a capital; would eventually build empire across Fertile Crescent; cruel and hated	8
4370159831	Nebuchadnezzar	Chaldean king; rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture; used Fertile Crescent	9
4370159832	Persian Empire	Developed into major world force; conquest of Babylon	10
4370159833	Egyptian	Developed along Nile River; rich soil and plentiful agricultural opportunities; stable agricultral cycle & regular food surpluses; organized into different kingdoms; astronomy; polytheistic	11
4370159834	King Menes	United entire river valley; built capital at Memphis and led efforts to manage floodwaters and biuld drainage and irrigation systems	12
4370159835	Pharaohs	Rulers; directed construction of obelisks, pyramids, and enormous tombs for their afterlife	13
4370159836	Hieroglyphics	System consisted of a series of pictures that represented letters and words; used by Egyptians	14
4370159837	Queen Hatshepsut	First female ruler; ruled for 22 years during Mew Kingdom; expanding Egyptian trade expeditions	15
4370159838	Indus Vally civilization	Built along the banks of a river system; contact with outsiders more limited; strong central government; polytheistic; cotton and cloth	16
4370159839	Khmer Pass	Through Hindu Kush Mtns.; provided connection to outside world and used by merchants on trade excursions; gave invading forces a way into land; Indus Valley used	17
4370159840	Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro	Indus Valley's two major cities; master-planned; uniformly constructed; sophisticated wastewater systems	18
4370159841	Aryans	Nomadic tribes from north of Caucasus Mtns.; defeated Indus Valley by horses and advanced weapons; formed Hinduism	19
4370159842	Brahmans	Priest class in Aryan civilization; moved above warrior class to be closer to gods	20
4370159843	Shang China	Rose in Hwang Ho River (Yellow River Valley; stable agricultural surplus for trade-centered civilization; developed alot	21
4370159844	Patriarchal structure	Household is led by the eldest male; Shang China	22
4370159845	Zhou Dynasty	Took over Shang with Wu Wang; ruled China longer than any other (900 yrs.)	23
4370159846	Mandate of Heaven	Heaven would grant the Zhou power only as long as its rulers governed justly and wisely	24
4370159847	Bureaucracies	Way of organizing government tasks by department, or bureau	25
4370159848	Bantu migrations	Migrations of farmers in Niger and Benue River valleys in West Africa to south and east; brought Bantu language	26
4370159849	Jenne-Jeno	First city in sub-Saharan Africa; began as a small fishing settlement; reached urban density but was not hierarchically organized	27
4370159850	Olmec	Known as Mexico today; 1500-400 BCE; urban society supported by surplus of corn, beans, and squash	28
4370159851	Chavin	In Andes; 900-200 BCE; access to coast;	29
4405083253	Mauryan Empire	Founded by Chandragupta Maurya; unified smaller Aryan kingdoms into civilization	30
4405083254	Ashoka Maurya	Took Maurya Empire to its greatest heights	31
4405349058	Rock and Pillar Edicts	Carved on rocks and pillars thought the Maurya Empire by Ashoka	32
4405381263	Gupta Empire	More decentralized and smaller than its predecessor; peaceful; arts and sciences; Chandra Gupta the Great; after Maurya Empire	33
4418792738	Qin Shi Huang	First emperor of Qin; recentralized feudal kingdoms from end of Zhou Dynasty; standardized laws; refused toleration of dissent	34
4418965440	Xiongnu	Large nomadic group from northern Asia who may have been Huns; invaded territories from China to Eastern Europe during the Han Dynasty	35
4419090715	Wu Ti	Enlarged Han Dynasty; to Central Asia; Hun or Xiongnu not very successful because o his skills	36