AP World History Cramming Flashcards

2555481168	8000 BCE- 600 CE	What years were the "Foundation Period"?"	0
2555481169	Homo Sapiens (wise human)	What is the scientific term for human?	1
2555481170	Africa	Where did the Homo sapiens first evolve?	2
2555481171	Tool	Humans are a ____ using species.	3
2555481172	True	T or F: humans have spread to all locations inhabited by people today by the foundations period.	4
2555481173	10 million	What is the earth's population at the time of Foundation Period?	5
2555481174	The Fertile Cresent(Middle East)	Where has the cultivation of grains begun?	6
2555481175	Mesopotamia	Where was the wheel invented?	7
2555481176	Agriculture vs. Hunting-Gathering	What were the competing ways of finding food in the foundations period?	8
2555481177	Agricultural production in the ME could support larger populations.	What increased the shift from hunter-gathers to agriculture?	9
2555481178	Jericho	Where were the first walled towns?	10
2555481179	Israel and Catal Hüyük	Where did the first known trade begin?	11
2555481180	Non-civilized= haven't adapted to surroundings Barbarian= adapted but intellectually unequipped	What's the difference between non-civilized and barbarian societies?	12
2555481181	Civilizations are all new	Have all of the civilizations previously existed prior to the foundation periods?	13
2555481182	illiterate	All civilizations in the Foundation Periods are ___ even though writing systems are established.	14
2555481183	more states and cities are established, along with trade routes. more gender roles (inequality)	Describe the development of the civilizations in the foundation period.	15
2555481184	Inca	What civilization doesn't have a form of writing?	16
2555481185	irrigation	People in Mesopotamia and Egypt made ditches for what invention?	17
2555484202	Copper and gold	What were the first metals mined for?	18
2555486420	Horses	What animals were domesticated in the Eurasian steppes?	19
2555489411	1) River Dependent 2) Inconsistent agriculture 3)Trade abundant	Name 3 common traits of all river-valley civilizations.	20
2555509237	The use of bronze increased and made more use of weapons and tools.	What is the bronze age?	21
2555528637	Southern Mesopotamia	Where is Sumer?	22
2555555135	The wheel, number system and lunar calendar	What are some Sumerian inventions?	23
2555558719	Hieroglyphics- Egypt, Cuneiform- Sumer	What were the forms of writing first created in Egypt and Sumer?	24
2557998116	India and Pakistan	Where was the Indus-Valley Civilization?	25
2558143403	False, the Classical period was occurring throughout the Foundations period.	T or F: The classical period was the time following the foundation period.	26
2558003722	Silk and rice	What are 2 of China's major exports during the Classical Period?	27
2558010705	500 BCE- 500 CE	What years were the Classical Period known as?	28
2558012775	Papyrus	What did the Egyptians use as paper? (they discovered it)	29
2558031306	Nile-> Nile River Mesopotamia->Tigris/Euphrates Rivers Harappan->Indus River Shang/Zhou/Xia->Yellow/Yangzhi Rivers	What rivers did the four main river valley city-states depend on?	30
2558086268	More classical civilizations made new territory part of its own land while river civilizations were more dependent on themselves	What was a major difference between the river valley civilizations and the classical civilizations?	31
2558175755	Economic, Political and Cultural	Name 3 ways that larger territories integrate others.	32
2558186102	Pharaohs	Who are the rulers of the Egyptian empire?	33
2558195519	Minoan	What civilization was found on Crete?	34
2558203493	Sea trade	Why was the Mediterranean an important trade route?	35
2558208652	The Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza	What are two very important landmarks of early Egyptian civilizations?	36
2558224413	Rice, cotton and sesame	Name 3 products of the Indus-River civilization.	37
2558233305	Sargon of Kish, north of Sumer	What city-state created the first known army? Where was it located?	38
2558248136	To conquer Mesopotamia and establish the Akkadian Empire	What was the Sargon of Kish's goal in creating an army?	39
2558255614	Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian King)	What was one of the earliest works of literature?	40
2558278951	Pastoral/Nomadic societies	What type of societies first used horses to ride and pull chariots?	41
2559388782	Migrations	What is the name of movement from one civilization to another by numerous groups of people?	42
2559426079	Abraham makes a covenant with God and travels from Ur (Sumerian city-state) to Canaan	According to the Bible, what marks the beginning of Judaism?	43
2559450890	Increased trade and classical art period	What was the Middle Kingdom of Egypt known for?	44
2562500429	Nubia	During the establishment of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, what city south of Egypt was conquered?	45
2562507821	Near Kish	Where is Babylon?	46
2562513284	Hammurabi	Who established the Babylonian Empire?	47
2562520614	Code of Hammurabi	What was the first set of law codes?	48
2562522667	Shang	Which dynasty was the first dynasty in China?	49
2562528611	War chariots, bronze weapons and China's first writing system	What are some developments of the Shang dynasty?	50
2562532292	Oracle Bones were used to worship ancestors	What was the way the Shang worshiped ancestors?	51
2562545403	Mycenaean Civilization	What city-state controlled by warrior kings were only united in war time, seatrade and invaders?	52
2562565779	Greek epics and myths	What form of literature was the main source of religion and stories of Greece during the classical period?	53
2562587492	Mesopotamia, Canaan (Israel), Syria and Northern Egypt	What city-states made up the Hittite Empire?	54
2562594930	Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton)	Who ruled the New Kingdom of Europe?	55
2562600081	Territorial expansion and monotheistic belief	Name two new developments of the New Kingdom of Egypt with Akhenaton in power.	56
2562612180	Nomadic Indo-Europeans	Who are Aryans?	57
2562616409	Aryans invaded India from Eurasia	How was the Indus-Valley civilization destroyed?	58
2562621687	Sanksrit	What language was implemented from the Aryans?	59
2562635499	Hinduism	The Aryans implemented their religion into the new civilization, leading to the creation of ______.	60
2562644236	Stonehenge	_____ is a collection of rocks completed in England to show all of the societies in the region.	61