Vocabulary - AP World History Flashcards

4786723937	Agricultural Revolution or Neolithic Revolution	period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet, into an agricultural period characterized by a diet of cultivated foods; or a further transition from a living a more advanced and more productive form of agriculture, resulting in further social changes	0
4786725010	Bantu	a member of any of several peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa	1
4786725011	Buddhism	a religion of eastern and central Asia that is based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha	2
4786726389	Carthage	ancient city on the coast of North Africa near present-day Tunis	3
4786726390	Chavin	pre-Incan civilization that flourished in northern and central Peru from about 900 to 200 bc, known for its carved stone sculptures and boldly designed ceramics	4
4786727605	Christianity	religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices	5
4786727606	City-state	a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state	6
4786729476	Confucianism	system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius	7
4786729477	Cuneiform	wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets	8
4786730680	Daoism or Taiosm	philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events	9
4786732086	Diaspora	Jews living outside Israel	10
4786732087	Foragers	gathering food by hunting, fishing, or the gathering of plant matter	11
4786732657	Hieroglyphics	writing consisting of hieroglyphs	12
4786732658	Isreal	country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea	13
4786733497	Linear B	syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek	14
4786733498	Legalism	excessive adherence to law or formula	15
4786734587	Mandate in Heaven	ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that tiān (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly	16
4786734588	Mesoamerica	region in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries	17
4786735868	Mesopotamia	ancient name for the land that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers	18
4786736685	Minoans	language associated with the Minoans	19
4786738343	Monotheism	belief that there is only one God	20
4786738943	Mycenae	characteristic of the Bronze Age Mycenaean culture of the eastern Mediterranean area	21
4786740936	Neo-Assyrian Empire	Iron Age Mesopotamian empire, in existence between 911 and 612 B.C.E.	22
4786742055	Neolithic	later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed	23
4786742056	Olmec	people living in the same general area as the prehistoric Olmec during the 15th and 16th centuries	24
4786742962	Papyrus	material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats	25
4786743990	Pluralists	sheep or cattle farmer	26
4786743991	Pharaoh	ruler in ancient Egypt	27
4786745340	Phoenicians	member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia and its colonies	28
4786745341	Polytheism	worship of more than one god	29
4786746506	Darius I	King of Persia (521-486) who expanded the empire, organized a highly efficient administrative system, and invaded Greece, only to be defeated at the Battle of Marathon in 490	30
4786747227	Zoroastrianism	monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC	31
4786747228	Hoplite	heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece	32
4786747229	Democracy	system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives	33
4786748754	Herodotus	Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC ( c. 484-c. 425 BC), a contemporary of Socrates	34
4786748755	Persian Wars	wars fought between Greece and Persia in the 5th century bc, in which the Persians sought to extend their territory over the Greek world	35
4786749910	Socrates	(469-399 B.C.E.) Greek philosopher	36
4786749911	Hellenistic Age	Greek history, language, and culture from the death of Alexander the Great to the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian in 31 B.C.E.	37
4786750757	Alexandria	port city of northern Egypt, located where the Nile River empties into the Mediterranean Sea	38
4786750758	Alexander	356-323 B.C.E., king of Macedonia: conqueror of Greek city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India	39