AP World History Chapter 2 Flashcards
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| 4757539122 | agricultural village | -the first villages -based on domestication of crops and animals -step up from hunter-gathering -created tools to help -used pottery for storage of food | 0 | |
| 4757539123 | fertile crescent | -floodplain in Middle East -between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers -when the rivers overflowed, it would go onto this portion of land | 1 | |
| 4757539124 | neolithic | -new stone age -named after its tools -start of agriculture | 2 | |
| 4757539125 | Mesopotamia | -"between two rivers" -Greek -ancient region in E. Mediterranean -located in current-day Iraq (and parts of Iran, Syria, and Turkey) -created by the Sumerians -first civilization | 3 | |
| 4757539126 | Sumer | -creators of Mesopotamia -developed writing by 3500 BCE -developed astronomical sciences -intense religious beliefs -tightly organized city states -created fertilizers -adopted silver for commercial exchange -taken over by the Akkadians | 4 | |
| 4757539127 | Ur | -one of the Sumerian city-states -third dynasty -after being in Akkadian empire for 200 years, Mesopotamian city-states regained independence under Ur | 5 | |
| 4757539128 | Akkadian Empire | -kingdom ruled by Sargon -united the city-states -took over Sumerian cities -founded in 2300 BCE | 6 | |
| 4757539129 | city-state | -small, independent state consisting of an urban center and surrounding agricultural territory -found in early Mesopotamia, Greece, Italy | 7 | |
| 4757539130 | ziggurat | -temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia -constructed of square/rectangular terraces -shrine on top with blue bricks |  | 8 |
| 4757539131 | pictograms | -pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept |  | 9 |
| 4757539132 | cuneiform | -writing system used in the ancient Near East -wedge shaped marks pressed into soft clay using stylus -from end of fourth millenium to first century BCE -earliest users were the Sumerians |  | 10 |
| 4757539133 | ideograms | -character in writing system -symbolizes the idea of something -used in Chinese, Arabic and Hindi -represented as character rather than a name |  | 11 |
| 4757539134 | Gilgamesh | -hero in ancient Mesopotamia -poem written about him (the Epic of Gilgamesh) | 12 | |
| 4757539135 | Code of Hammurabi | -Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia -dates back to 1750 BCE -created by Babylonian ruler Hammurabi | 13 | |
| 4757539136 | Sargon of Akkad | -c. 2350 BCE -King of Akkad -conquered Sumerian cities -first to unite the city-states under a single, powerful ruler | 14 | |
| 4757539137 | River Valley Civilizations | -Mesopotamia/Sumerian (10000-750 BCE) -Egyptian (Nile) -Harappan (Indus) -Huang He (Yellow River) | 15 |