AP World History Unit 1 Flashcards

6834963314	Paleolithic Age	cultural period of the Stone Age where people used simple chipped stone tools (10,000 BCE)	0
7323728011	Neolithic Age	New Stone Age - the period of time when people started to farm, make pottery, and weave. Began 8,000 BCE (discovery of agriculture)	1
7323738252	Slash and Burn Agriculture	a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land. We didn't have fertilizer until about 60 years ago	2
7323743922	Neolithic Revolution	A turning point in the stone age when humans began farming.	3
7333326480	Pastoralism	the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society (raising livestock) nomads they move because the animals graze	4
7333326481	Domestication	the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food	5
7333329327	Sedentary	stop moving for food	6
7333330833	Animism	the belief that all things are living	7
7333330834	Polytheism	Belief in more than one god	8
7333333289	foraging	hunting and gathering; searching for food	9
7342328565	Fertile Crescent	an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the FIRST CIVILIZATIONS began (modern day syria and iraq)	10
7342328566	Egalitarian societies	Everybody has about equal rank, access to, and power over basic resources. (equality) ex. islam + hunting and gathering	11
7342330095	Shaman	a person believed to have the power to summon spirits and heal the sick (used in animistic religions; channel animal spirits)	12
7342330096	Hunting and Gathering Societies	societies that use simple technology for hunting animals and gathering vegetation (Egalitarian)	13
7342331434	Monotheism	Belief in one God (christianity, judaism, islam)	14
7342333021	Nomadic (nomads)	people moving about from place to place (used for grazing because they use the land for all it has and have to move to different land for more food)	15
7361157291	Sumer	an area in the southern part of Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared (fertile crescent)	16
7361161652	Mesopotamia	Birthplace of the Sumerian civilization among many others. (fertile crescent)	17
7361161653	Uruk	The world's FIRST city in mesopotamia	18
7361165233	Pyramids	Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top (tomb for pharaohs)	19
7361167525	Pharaohs	A ruler in ancient Egypt; king - pharaohs can be women	20
7372482728	Civilization	A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes	21
7372485942	Son of Heaven/Mandate of Heaven (divine right)	Son of Heaven: "Title of the ruler of China. It acknowledges the leader's position as intermediary between heaven and earth." Mandate of Heaven: "the belief that a ruler held authority by command of divine force as long as he ruled morally and benevolently."	22
7372485969	Mohenjo Daro	ancient city of the Indus civilization, located in present-day Pakistan 2,000 BCE	23
7372489456	Harappa	The site of one of the earliest civilizations in South Asia	24
7372489536	Epic of Gilgamesh	Mesopotamian narrative poem that was first told in Sumer	25
7372493099	Code of Hammurabi	The first known system of written law (first law code)	26
7384667743	Quipu	a system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keeping records	27
7384669909	Patriarchal	a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority	28
7384672866	Matriarchal	rule or leadership is done by women or mothers; existed in africa and the middle east in ancient times	29
7395465607	Hieroglyphic	a writing system using picture symbols used by the egyptians	30
7395467994	Ziggurat	a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top (in mesopotamia)	31
7395470660	Metallurgy	Extraction and processing of metals to make tools; 3000 BCE; diffuses from egyptians	32