Ap world history vocab Flashcards
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4893414073 | Paleolithic | Stone Age-simple tools made by stone tools for hunting and gathering | 0 | |
4893414074 | Neolithic revolution | A transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and domesticating animals | 1 | |
4893414075 | Patriarchy | Social system where the males are head of the family | 2 | |
4893414076 | Pastoralism | Raising animals / domesticating them for food, clothes, and shelter | 3 | |
4893414077 | Domesticated | Tamed(animal) or cultivated(plant) and kept by man | 4 | |
4893414078 | Agrarian | Society where economy is based on producing/maintaining crops/farmland | 5 | |
4893414079 | Foraging | People who hunt and gather | 6 | |
4893414080 | Metallurgy | Science of metals - studies structures shaping and treatment of metals | 7 | |
4893414081 | Civilization | Society in advanced state of development w/ complex legal, political, and religious orginizations | 8 | |
4893414082 | Specialization of labor | The breakdown of jobs into repetitive tasks | 9 | |
4893414083 | Political bureaucracy | A government administration managed by departments of non elected officials | 10 | |
4893414084 | Religious / social hierarchy | Different levels where things are placed above, below, or on the same level | 11 | |
4893414085 | Gilgamesh | A Sumerian poem that is considered the 1st great work of literature | 12 | |
4893414086 | Hatshepsut | 5th pharaoh in 18th dynasty of Egypt, 2nd confirmed female | 13 | |
4893414087 | Bantu | Name of large group of sub Saharan African languages and people who speak the languages | 14 | |
4893414088 | Aryana vs dravidians | Aryans occupied north India dravidians occupied south India | 15 | |
4893414089 | Olmec | Early Mediterranean society | 16 | |
4893414090 | Catal huyuk | City settlement in southern Anatolia | 17 | |
4893414091 | Composite bows | Traditional bow made from wood, horn, and sinew put together | 18 | |
4893414092 | Chariots | 2 wheeled horse drawn vehicle used in racing and warfare | 19 | |
4893414093 | Hitties | People from central Anatolia who made an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the late bronze age | 20 | |
4893414094 | Cuneiform | Sumerian writing by pressing a wedged shaped tool into clay tablets | 21 | |
4893414095 | Hieroglyphs | Writing using symbols to represent sounds, syllables, or concepts | 22 | |
4893414096 | Hammurabis code | Sophisticated law code associated w the Babylonian king Hammurabi | 23 | |
4893414097 | Vedic | Stories written in sandskirt | 24 | |
4893414098 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion based on the teaching of 6th century BCE prophet Zarathustra; its emphasis on the duality of good and evil and on the role of individuals in determining their own fate would influence later traditions | 25 | |
4893414099 | Ziggurats | Large tower made of mud bricks in ancient Mesopotamian cities -unknown function | 26 | |
4893414100 | Semetic | RELATED languages spoken in parts of Asia and Africa mostly widespread in Arabic | 27 | |
4893414101 | Phoenicians | On eastern Mediterranean coast; made an alphabet that used sounds instead of symbols like cuneiform | 28 |