AP World History Princeton Review Key Terms Section 1 Flashcards

4288438363	Nomad	constantly moving people, following the food	0
4288438364	Foraging Societies	small nomadic groups of hunter-gatherers	1
4288438365	Pastoral Societies	first domesticated animals	2
4288438366	Cuneform	Sumerian writing	3
4288438367	Polytheistic	worship of more than one god	4
4288438368	Ziggurat	Sumerian temples, terraced pyramids	5
4288438369	Code of Hammurabi	legal code in Babylon	6
4288438370	Pharaohs	Rulers of Egypt	7
4288438371	Hieroglyphics	Egyptian writing, pictures represents letters and words	8
4288438372	Mummification	embaming of Egyptian bodies	9
4288438373	Pyramid	large structures, tombs of pharohs in the Old Kindom of Egypt	10
4288438374	River Valley	type of place early civilizations formed in	11
4288438375	Calendar	system for organizing days, Egyptians developed a reliable one	12
4288438376	Hinduism	Religeon evolved from Aryan beliefs, caste system, main religion in India, study Vedas	13
4288438377	The Vedas & The Upshanids	record of Aryan beliefs, now studied by Hindus	14
4288438378	Caste System	Hindu system, strict social hierchy, originaly warriors-priests-peasants, now- from top to bottom- 1. Brahmans 2. Warriors 3. Landowners & Merchants 4. Peasants	15
4288438379	Patriarchy	men are above women, leader is eldest male	16
4288438380	Mandate of Heaven	heaven only lets a dynasty rule China if it governs justly and wisely	17
4288438381	Migration	people permanently travel, often not intentionally and/or over many generations	18
4288438382	Zhou Dynasty	followed Shang dynasty, longest dynasty in China, founded by Wu Wang, maintained many of the Shang customs	19
4288438383	Neolithic Revolution	transition for nomadic to agricultural societies	20
4288438384	Bronze Age	invention of bronze, late Neolithic era	21
4288438385	Mesopotamia	fertile crescent between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers	22
4288438386	Sumerian Civilizations	civilization in Southern Mesopotamia	23
4288438387	Tigris and Euphrates Rivers	rivers between which is MesopotamiaS	24
4288438388	Babylon	Empire in Mesopotamia, conquered Akkad, Code of Hammurabi	25
4288438389	Hittites	conquered Babylon, discovered iron, improved chariot, spokes on wheels	26
4288438390	Assyrians	conquered Hittites, capital at Ninveheh, conquered by Medes and Chaldeans	27
4288438391	Nebuchadnezzar	Chaldean King, rebuilt Babylon	28
4288438392	Persian Empire	conquered Babylon, largest empire yet	29
4288438393	Egyptian Civilizations	civilization sdeveloped upon Nile River	30
4288438394	King Menes	united Nile river valley, built capital at Memphis	31
4288438395	Queen Hatshepsut	Queen of Egyptian new for 22 years, first known female ruler in history	32
4288438396	Indus Valley	valley on Indus river in Northwestern India, home to early civilizations	33
4288438397	Fertile Crecent	region from Mesopotamia towards the Medditaranian sea	34
4288438398	Khyber Pass	pass through mountain which connects to the Indus Valley	35
4288438399	Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro	two major cities in the Indus Valley	36
4288438400	Aryans	nomadic tribes from the north of Caucasus Mountains, defeated Indus Valley with horses and advanced weaponry, each tribe migrated to India separately	37
4288438401	Bantu Migrations	farmers in Niger and Benue River valleys (Bantu) migrate south and east and impact language	38
4288438402	Shang China	first major Chinese kingdom, patriarchy, very religious, believed they could call on dead ancestors ,oracle bones	39
4288438403	Olmec and Chavin	early societies in North America, not in river valleys, prove that developments in civilizations can occur independantly	40
4288438404	Akkad	first major empire, starting in Northern Mesopotamia, Sargon	41
4288438405	Jenne-Jeno	first city in sub-Saharan Africa, reached urban density	42
4288438406	Bureacracy	government organized into departments	43
4288438407	Nubia / Kush	developed at same time as ancient Egypt, conquered Egypt temporarily around 750 BCE, capital at Meroe	44