AP World History Flashcards

4743401167	Periodization (BCE&CE, BC&AD)	BCE: before common era CE: common era BC: before Christ AD: anno domini	0
4774834992	Paleolithic	the Old Stone Age	1
4774835318	Neolithic	the New Stone Age; started using agriculture	2
4743401932	metallurgy	study of metal	3
4743404322	textile	type of cloth	4
4743404643	Neolithic Revolution	aka agricultural revolution; the beginning of farming	5
4743405199	Epic of Gilgamesh	a long epic poem	6
4774835581	irrigation	method in which water is supplied to crops for agriculture	7
4743455809	Hammurabi's Code	a uniform code of law that deals with every aspect of life	8
4743462431	cuneiform	a system of writing used in Sumer	9
4743463300	Moses	the man who led the Israelites out of Egypt (Judaism)	10
4743463646	polytheism	belief in many gods	11
4743463905	semitic	indicates people who speak Hebrew, Arabic, or Aramaic	12
4743465014	city-state	a city and its surrounding land which functions as its own independent country	13
4743466188	Indo-Europeans	group of nomadic people who came from the steppes	14
4774841078	pastoral nomads	moves around to find fresh pastures for livestock	15
4774843628	Hebrews, Jews, Israelites	=same thing	16
4774843871	Abraham	"father of the Jewish people"	17
4774844220	monotheism	belief in a single god	18
4743468184	Phoenicians	excellent seafarers; created the alphabet; large network of trade	19
4743468997	savannah	tropical grasslands	20
4743471337	pharaoh	Egyptian king who acted as a god	21
4743471455	mercenary	a soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army	22
4743473035	hieroglyphics	Egyptian system of writing	23
4743473158	Rosetta Stone	black stone inscribed in three languages (Greek, hieroglyphics, simple hieroglyphics; helped to translate hieroglyphics	24
4743474523	Aryans	one group of Indo-Europeans who moved into the Indus river valley	25
4743480744	Brahman	highest position in the caste system; priest	26
4743482139	karma	goods or bad deeds	27
4743482370	dharma	Buddhist doctrines	28
4743483003	ascetic	practice of severe self-discipline	29
4743485363	Shang dynasty	first to leave written records (probably on the oracle bones)	30
4743485799	Zhou dynasty	start of Mandate of Heaven and feudalism	31
4743486241	Qin dynasty	used Legalist ideas to subdue the warring state; program of centralization	32
4743487697	Han dynasty	established a centralizing policy; encouraged Confucianism; advances in technology	33
4743488614	mandate of heaven	the right from God to rule	34
4743488811	decentralized administration	admisitration rulers entrust power to subordinates who owed allegiance,tribute, and military support to the gov't	35
4743490944	royal court	place where an important ruler lives	36
4774846809	artisans	skilled workers who make goods by hand	37
4743600313	maize	corn; cultivated in the Americas	38
4743600567	Bering land bridge	a land bridge that appeared during the Ice Age which connected Alaska and Russia.	39
4774847697	Tigris-Euphrates civilization	built city-states; polytheistic; used cuneiform	40
4774850058	Nile civilization	pharaoh=god; theocracy; positive view of the afterlife; pyramids and mummification; use of hieroglyphics and invented papyrus	41
4774852246	Indus river valley civilization	had sophisticated city planning (used standard size bricks); sewage system	42
4774853189	Huang He civilization	oracle bones (Shang); dynastic cycle (Mandate of Heaven)	43