Ap World History Vocab Flashcards

4824475521	Venus Figurines	Prehistoric statues of women	0
4824475522	Clovis Culture	People who made a shaft point. Arrows	1
4824475523	Shamens	People who were believed to travel to spiritual world.	2
4824475524	Gobekli Tepe	Ancient structure ceremonial religious use.	3
4830279823	Fertile Cresent	An area located in southwest Asia that was the site of major breakthroughs in agriculture due to the mass variety of wild plants and animals.	4
4830279824	Diffusion	Gradual spread of cultural norms from one area to another by contact.	5
4830279825	Bantu Migration	Bantu speaking people moved east and south from the present day Nigeria and Cameroon.	6
4830279826	Pastoral Societies	For people who don't live in places where it is easy to grow food, animal husbandry relying on products of animals. Meat, fiber, hides, milk.	7
4830304639	Chiefdoms	Inherited position of power where unlike kings Chiefs couldn't just use force they had to rely on their generosity.	8
4830456317	Catal Huyuk	Hunter/gatherer village in south Turkey that flourished between 7400 and 6000 B.C.E. It had gender and social equality with no kings, Chiefs or any other leader	9
4846649828	Indus Valley Civilizations	Unlike other middle eastern civilizations, it had no palaces, temples, elaborate graves, Kings, warrior classes. No evidence of political hierarchy or centralized state.	10
4846649829	Central Asian/Oxus Civilizations	2200bce within a couple centuries containing shops, temples, residential compounds, surrounded by tall walls and gates. Didn't develop literal culture.	11
4846649830	Olmec Civilizations	1200bce coast of Gulf of Mexico in south Mexico. Grew maize, beans, squash. Series of Chiefdoms. Ceremonial center filled with temples, altars, pyramids, tombs of rulers	12
4846649831	Uruk	Ancient Mesopotamias biggest city. Walls 20 feet tall and population of around 50,000. City's center was stepped pyramid topped with temples. Specialty jobs	13
4846649832	Epic of Gulgamesh	Mesopotamias ancient epic poem	14
4846649833	Mohenjo Daro/Harappa	Banks of Indus River. 2000bce population of 40,000 sister city is Harappa. Large houses indoor pluming bathrooms private wells	15
4846649835	Patriarchy	System of government- males hold the power and women are excluded from it	16
4864221812	Rise of the state	The state started becoming more popular because it was easier than how it was before in almost every way.	17
4872245267	Sumer	First urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia.	18
4872245268	Egypt	Civilization is present day Egypt that stretched about 1,000 miles along the Nile river.	19
4872245269	Nubia	Region along Nile River in present day north Sudan and south Egypt very early civilization.	20
4889950354	Persian Empire	In 500bce largest and world most impressive empire	21
4889950355	Athenian democracy	First democracy in the world. Created in Athens.	22
4889950356	Greco-Persian Wars	Series of conflicts between Persian empire and Greece. Or wars	23
4889950357	Alexander the Great	King of Ancient Greece, lead massive Greek expedition against Persian empire	24
4889950358	Hellenistic era	After Alexander the Great died(323-30 bce). Widespread dissemination of Greek culture	25
4919569647	Augustus	Founder of Roman empire	26
4919569648	Pax Romana	The peace that existed between people in Roman Empire.	27
4919569649	Qin Shihuangdi	First Emperor and founder of the Qin dynasty.	28
4919569650	Han dynasty	Second imperial lasted from 206 bce to 220 ce	29
4948423687	Legalism	Inspired the short win dynasty, lots of laws and rules that are strictly enforced with rewards and punishments.	30
4948423688	Confusionism	Created by Confucius, education is the key to moral betterment became synonymous with Chinese culture and was nonreligous in character.	31
4948423689	Ban Zhao	First known female Chinese historian. She wrote lessons for women and competed brothers book.	32
4948423690	Daoism	Was founded by Laozi, was a complement to Confucianism, dao-central concept of daoist thinking.	33
4959169768	Vedas	A sacred text- collections of poems, hymns, prayers, rituals.	34
4959169769	Upanishads	A body of sacred text, composed by largely anonymous thinkers in 800 to 400bce.	35
4959169770	Siddhartha Gautama	Founder of Buddhism, prince from small North Indian state.	36
4959169771	Theravada/Mahayana	Different types of Buddhism have the main structure the same but a little different.	37