AP World History Flashcards

4830529813	Archaeology	The study of human history and prehistoric through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.	0
4830530752	Anthropology	The comparative study of human societies and cultures and their developments.	1
4830530753	History	The study of past events, particularly in human affairs.	2
4830531701	Primary Source	An artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a record, or other source of information that was created at the time under study.	3
4830534305	Secondary Source	Information is one that was created later by someone who didn't experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you're researching.	4
4830534306	Civilization	The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.	5
4830535257	Culture	The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.	6
4830536518	Paleolithic	Of, relating to, or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting bout 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.	7
4830536519	Clovis Culture	A prehistoric Native American culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 13,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age	8
4830538819	Neolithic (agricultural revolution)	Of, relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons, and implements prevailed.	9
4830538820	Foragers	To search about; seek rummage; hunt.	10
4830540850	Pastoralists	A sheep or cattle farmer.	11
4830540851	Diffusion	The spreading of something more widely.	12
4830543324	Syncretism	The amalgamation or attempt amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.	13
4830543325	Megalith	A large stine that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g., a menhir) or part of one (e.g., a stone circle or chamber tomb)	14
4830544631	City-State	A city that with its surrounding territory forms and independent state.	15
4830544632	Patriarchy	A system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded form it.	16
4830545799	Fertile Crescent	A crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta.	17
4830546633	Catal Huyuk	An archaeology site in what is now south-central Turkey.	18
4830547468	Sumerians	A member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia.	19
4830549239	Babylon	A contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of a society sen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the police.	20
4830550403	Hammurabi	The sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, assumed the throne from his father, Sin-Muballit, and expanded the kingdom to conquer all of the ancient Mesopotamia.	21
4830550404	Ziggurat	A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple	22
4830551776	Cuneiform	Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.	23
4830551777	Memphis	An ancient city of Egypt south of Cairo.	24
4830566057	Thebes	Known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located east of the Nile about 800 kilometers (500 mi) south of the Mediterranean.	25
4830567622	Pharoah	A ruler in ancient Egypt.	26
4830567623	Pyramid	A monument structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.	27
4830569473	Scribe	person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented	28
4830570726	Hieroglyphics	Enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing.	29
4830573954	Papyrus	A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats.	30
4830573955	Harappa	A village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.	31
4830576264	Mohenjo-Daro	One of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization which developed around 3000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture	32
4830578300	Shang Dynasty		33
4830578301	Zhou Dynesty		34
4830579765	Mandate of Heaven	An ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly.	35
4830579766	Mesoamerica	A region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.	36
4830580799	Olmec		37
4830580800	Teosinte		38
4830582336	Andes		39
4830584062	Chavin		40
4830584063	Llama		41
4830585338	Hierarchy		42
4830585339	Migration		43
4830587513	Bantu Migration		44
4830588944	Austronesian Migration		45
4830589511	Chiefdoms		46