AP World History Vocab (Chapter 1~3) Flashcards

2794586237	Civilization	Any group of people sharing a set of cultual traits	0
2794586403	Culture	Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression	1
2794586405	History	The study of past events and changes in development	2
2794586404	Stone Age	The historical period characterized by production of tools from stone and other non metallic substances	3
2794586598	Paleolithic	The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans (구석시 시대). This comes before Neolithic	4
2794586867	Neolithic	The period of the Stonge Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution (신석기 시대)	5
2794594862	Foragers	People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects	6
2794587676	Agricultural Revolutions	The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between 8000 to 2000 B.C. Also known as Neolithic revolution.	7
2794591530	Megaliths	Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremoonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times. (고인돌)	8
2794591531	Sumerians	The people who dominated southern Mesopotamiathrough the end of the third millenium B.C. THey were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture.	9
2794591666	Semitic	Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northen Africa.	10
2794592046	City-state	A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory.	11
2794592047	Babylon	The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia	12
2794592048	Hammurabi	Amorite ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia	13
2794592049	Scribe	In the governments of many ancient societies, a professional position for educated men that is able to read and write using the writing systems.	14
2794592399	Ziggurat	A massive pyramid stepped tower made of mud bricks. Associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities.	15
2794592400	Amulet	Small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil.	16
2794592590	Cuneiform	A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables.	17
2794592591	Bronze	An alloy of copper with a small amount of tin.	18
2794592592	Pharaoh	The central figure in the ancient Egyptian state.	19
2794593056	Ma'at	Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the unvierse	20
2794593057	A Pyramid	A latge triangular stone monument	21
2794593058	Memphis	The captial of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta	22
2794593059	Thebes	Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms.	23
2794593446	Hieroglyphics	A system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts.	24
2794593447	Papyrus	A reed that grows along the abnks of the Nile River in Egypt. Also used to make papers	25
2794593448	Mummy	A body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife.	26
2794594396	Harappa	Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.	27
2794594863	Mohenjo-Daro	Largest of the cities of the Indus Valley.	28
2794595258	Loess	A fine, light yellowish-brown dust deposited by wind and water.	29
2794595259	Shang	The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records. (Shang Dynasty)	30
2794595260	Zhou	The people and dynasty that overthrew position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule.	31
2794595479	Mandate of Heaven	Chinese religious and politcal ideology developed by the Zhou	32
2794595819	Confucius	Western name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi. Great influence on Chinese thoughts.	33
2794596070	Daoism	Chinese school of throught, originating in the Warring States Period with Laozi.	34
2794596071	Yin/Yang	Chinese belief that helped to maintain the equilibrium of the world	35
2794596353	Kush	An Egyptian name for Nubia, the region alongside the Nile River south of Egypt.	36
2794596354	Meroe	Capital of a flourishing Kingdom in southern Nubia from the fourth century CE	37
2794596355	Celts	Peoples sharing common lingustic and cultural features that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium	38
2794596694	Druids	The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples.	39
2794596695	Olmec	The first Mesoamerican civilization. They created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agricultre.	40
2794596696	Chavin	The first major urban civilization in South America	41
2794596697	Llama	An animal with humps on the back	42
2794597108	Iron Age	A period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons	43
2794597109	Hittites	A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Antolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age.	44
2794597110	Hatshepsut	Queen of Egypt. She dispatched a naval expedition to Punt(North east Sudan)	45
2794597992	Akhenaten	Egyptian pharaoh. He built a new captial at Amarna.	46
2794598210	Ramesses II	A ong ived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt. He reached an accododation with the Hitties of Anatolia after a standoff in battle at Kadesh in Syria.	47
2794598552	Minoan	Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millenium B.C	48
2794598553	Mycenae	An ancient city of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a late Bronze Age kingdom.	49
2794599014	Shaft graves	A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millenium B.C	50
2794599015	Linear B	A set of syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete.	51
2794599016	Neo-Assyrian Empire	An empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia between the tenth and seventh centuries B.C.	52
2794599445	Mass deportation	The forceible removal and relocation of large numbers of people.	53
2794599924	Library of Ashurbanipal	A large collection of writings from the ancient literary traditions of Mespotamia.	54
2794599925	Israel	In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium B.C.	55
2794599926	Hebrew Bible	A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins of the Israelities.	56
2794600123	First Temple	A sacred place built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century.	57
2794600124	Monotheism	Belief in the existence of only one God	58
2794600125	Diaspora	Greek word menaing "dispersal" used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland.	59
2794600439	Phoenicians	Semitic speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium.	60
2794600440	Carthage	City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians. It became a major commercial center and naval power.	61
2794601847	Neo-Babylonian Kingdom	Under the Chaldeans, Babylon again bcame a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.	62