AP World History terms Flashcards

5721761054	Austronesian migrations	The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. These people settled the pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3500 yrs ago	0
5721761055	Banpo	A Chinese archeological site where the remains of a significant Neolithic village have been found	1
5721761056	Bantu migration	The spread of Bantu-speaking ppl from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria or Cameroon to most of Africa, in a process that started about 3000 BCE and continued for several millennia	2
5721761057	Diffusion	The gradual spread of agricultural techniques without extensive population movement	3
5721761058	Dreamtime	A couples worldview of Australia's aboriginal ppl that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings	4
5721761059	Fertile Crescent	Region sometimes known as Southeast Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, and southern Turkey; the earliest home of agriculture	5
5721761060	Göbekli Tepe	A ceremonial site comprising 20 circles made up of carved limestone pillars located in southeastern turkey. The site, which dates to 11,600 yrs ago, was built by gathering and hunting ppl who lives at least part of the year in settled villages	6
5721761061	Ishi	The last surviving member of gathering and hunting group known as the Yahi who lived in Northern California. His people were driven into extinction during the second half of the nineteenth century by the intrusion of farming and herding "civilized" societies	7
5730151014	"The original affluent society"	Used to describe Paleolithic societies, which were regarded as affluent not because they had so much but because the wanted or needed so little	8
5730151015	Paleolithic settling down	The process by which some Paleolithic people moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlements were marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods, as well as growing inequalities	9
5730151016	Secondary products revolution	Used to describe the series of technological changes that began about 4000 BCE, as people began to develop new uses for their domesticated animals, and exploiting a revolutionary new source of power	10
5730151017	Shamans	In many early societies a person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trance dances induced by drugs	11
5730854246	Trance dances	In San culture a nightlong ritual held to activate a humans inner spiritual potency to counter act the evil influences of gods and ancestors. They were apparently common to the Khoisan ppl	12
5730854247	Venus figurines	Paleolithic carvings of the female, often with exaggerated boobs, butts hips and stomach, which may have had religious significance	13
5730854248	Central Asian/Oxus civ.	A major first civ that emerged around 2200 BCE in Central Asia along the Oxus or Amu-darts river . Focal point for Eurasian system of intellectual and cultural exchange and went away in 1700 BCE	14
5730854249	Code of Hammurabi	Laws published at the order of a Babylonian king that proclaim the kings commitment to social order	15
5730854250	Egypt	This country is often known as the gift of the Nike because without the Nile and its flooding people wouldn't be able to survive there, which provided rush soil deposits and made farming possible	16
5730854251	Epic of Gilgamesh	The most famous extant literary work from ancient Mesopotamia, tells the story of Gilgamesh's quest for I'm mortality	17
5730854252	Mohenjo daro/ Harappa	Major cities of the Indus Valley civilization both flourished around 2000 BCE	18
5730854253	Norte Chico/caral	A region in central Peru, home of a civ that developed in the period 3000-1800 BCE and the largest of about 25 urban centers	19
5730854254	Olmec civilization	An early civ that developed along the Gulf of Mexico around 1200 BCE	20
5730854255	Paneb	An Egyptian foreman, in charge of a crew of tomb workers, whose misdeeds in 1300 BCE in life were recorded by a rival	21
5730854256	Patriarchy	Literally rule of the father, a social system of male dominance	22
5730854257	Rise of the state	Centralization that happened in first civilization, growing out of the greater complexity of urban life and the need for coordination, regulation, adjudication, and military leadership	23
5730854258	Uruk	Largest city of Mesopotamia and Gilgamesh's home town	24
5730913359	Alexander the great	Rules form 356-323 BCE, conqueror of the Persian empire and part of northwest India	25
5730913360	Greco-Persian wars	2 major Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 BCE and 480 BCE, in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea	26
5731413164	Han dynasty	Dynasty that ruled China from 206-220 BCE, creating a durable state based on Shihuangdi's state building achievements	27
5731413165	Hellenistic era	The period from 323-30 BCE in which Greek culture spread widely in Eurasia and North Africa in the kingdoms ruled by alexanders political successors	28
5731413166	Mauryan empire	A major empire, 322-185 BCE, that encompassed most of India	29
5731413167	Qin Shihuangdi	Literally first emperor from the Qin, forcibly reunited China and established a strong repressive state	30
5731413168	Trung Trac	A Vietnamese woman from an aristocratic military family who led an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against China in 40 CE after execution of her husband	31
5731413169	Kushan Empire	A sizable and prosperous empire linked to the Silk Road ina region that now encompasses northwestern India, Pakistan, afghanistan, and Tajikistan	32
5731447802	Ban Zhao	A female Confucian author of Han dynasty whose works give insight into the implication of confusion thinking women	33
5731447803	Bhagavad Gita	A great Hindu epic text, part of Mahabharata, which affirms the performance of caste duties as a path to religious liberation	34
5731447804	Church of the Easr	A theologically and organizationally distinct Christian church based in Syria and Persia but with followers in southern India and Central Asia	35
5731580818	Confucianism	A Chinese philosophy, first enunciated by Confucius, that advocated the moral example of superiors as the key element of social order	36
5731580819	Greek rationalism	A system of scientific and philosophies thought that developed in classical Greece in 600-300 BCE, it emphasized the power of education and human reason to understand the world in nonreligious terms	37
5731580820	Jesus of Nazareth	The prophet/god of Christianity	38
5731580821	Judaism	The monotheistic religion developed by the Hebrews, emphasizing a sole personal god (Yahweh) with concerns for social justice	39
5731580822	Legalism	A Chinese philosophy distinguished by an adherence to clear laws with vigorous punishment	40
5731580823	Saint paul	The first great popularizer of Christianity	41
5731645366	Socrates	The first great Greek philosopher to turn rationalism toward questions of human existence	42
5731739603	Vedas	The earliest religious texts of India, a collection of ancient poems, hymns, and rituals that were transmitted orally before being written down ca. 600 BCE	43
5731739604	Zoroastrianism	Persian monotheistic religion founded by the prophet Zarathustra	44
5731739605	Plato	The greek philosopher who argued that a good society would be ruled by a class of highly educated guardians led by a philosopher-king	45
5731739606	Aristotle	The Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great and who was famous for his reflections on ethics. He argued that virtue was a product of rational training and cultivated habit, and could be learned	46
5731739607	Nalanda	A village in the Bihar region of northeastern India that came to prominence during the 5th century when a huge monastic complex dedicated to Buddhist learning, often viewed as the worlds first university, began to take shape	47
5731739608	Perpetua	A young female Christian convert from an affluent Roman family who was arrested and tried during the persecution she of new converts ordered by Roman emperor Septimus Severus. She left behind highly personal account of her arrest and trial in her diary	48
5731785479	Aspasia	A foreign women resident in Athens who was famed for her learning and wit, and was pericles' partner	49