AP World History Flashcards Flashcards

4814027665	Babylon	The most important city in southern Mesopotamia which climaxed in a cosmic battle between Marduk and Tiamak	0
4814036071	Sumerians	A civilization that created the framework of civilization in Mesopotamia during a long period of dominance in the third millennium	1
4814053809	Megaliths	Big carved stones that are meant to relate to religious beliefs	2
4814059879	Holocene	An era in which global warning ended the Ice Age	3
4814067067	Agricultural revolutions	The central role of food production and the adoption of agricultural which included the domestication of animals for food	4
4814075607	Foragers	People who hunt and gather food. These were usually men in the family. They made specific tools to catch certain animals easily.	5
4814085584	Neolithic	The Age where agriculture was invented. This changed the lives of many people due to the fact that they can grow food without hunting for it	6
4814101009	Paleolithic	An Age where it lasted from the end of the Stone Age to the end of the Ice Age	7
4814107722	Culture	Specific objects, materials, dwellings, clothing, tools, crafts, beliefs and languages	8
4814124716	Civilization	1. Cities that have administration centers 2. Cities that have a political system 3. A number of people working on something besides food-making 4. Cities that have certain status classes 5. Cities that have monumental buildings 6. Permanent record keeping 7. Trading long-distance wise 8. Advances in science and art	9
4814149573	History	The development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events	10
4814156729	Stone Age	The time period in which stone tools were invented. This period revolutionized hunting forever	11
4814196172	Semitic	A family of languages spoken in parts of western Asia and northern Africa	12
4814202801	City-State	A self-governing urban center and the agricultural territories it controlled	13
4814207876	Hammurabi	A city that initiated a series of aggressive military campaigns	14
4814218225	Scribe	An administrator or scholar charged by the temple or palace with reading and writing tasks	15
4814232930	Ziggurat	A multistory, mud-brick, pyramid shaped tower approached by ramps and stairs	16
4814238606	Amulets	Small charms meant to protect the bearer from evil. People wore these for cultural or religious beliefs	17
4814252159	Cuneiform	Wedge-shaped writing which involved several hundred signs. Mastering Cuneiform in that day took several years to get used to	18
4814261759	Pharaoh	The Egyptian Phrase meaning palace. Many people wore hats that covered their faces and that distinguished them as a pharaoh which means they were wealthy	19
4814286094	Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro	Two urban sites that best typify the Indus Valley civilization	20
4814290616	Mummy	Dead people who are wrapped in linen and placed in decorated wooded caskets	21
4814295785	Papyrus	A writing material made from the stems of the papyrus reed that grew in the Nile marshes	22
4814301963	Hieroglyphics	A system of writing developed by the beginning of the Early Dynasty period	23
4814307707	Thebes	Another place where dynasties placed their capitols	24
4814313731	Memphis	A place where ruling dynasties usually placed their capitals in the area of their original power base	25
4814319525	Ma'at	The divinely authorized order of the universe	26