AP World History Chapter 1 Flashcards

5467718509	Homo Sapiens	The humanoid species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period	0
5467718510	Neolithic Stone Age	The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plats and animals accomplished	1
5467718511	Paleolithic Stone Age	The Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 B.C.E.; typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence	2
5467718512	Bronze Age	From about 4000 B.C.E., when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East, to about 1500 B.C.E., when iron began to replace it	3
5467718513	Slash and burn agriculture	A version of harvesting where you slash and burn	4
5467718514	Cuneiform	A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets	5
5467718515	Sumerians	People who migrated into Mesopotamia C. 4000 B.C.E; created first civilization within region; organized area into city-states	6
5467718516	Ziggurats	Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes	7
5467718517	Babylonian Empire	Unified all of Mesopotamia C. 1800 B.C.E.; collapsed due to foreign invasion C. 1600 B.C.E.	8
5467718518	Hammurabi	The most important ruler of the Babylonian empire; responsible for codification of law	9
5467718519	Shang	First Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in Ordos bulge of the Huanghe; flourished 1600 to 1046 B.C.E.	10
5467718520	Ideographs	Pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing	11
5467718521	Monotheism	The exclusive worship of a single god; introduced by the Jews into Western civilization	12