AP World History: Vocabulary #2 Flashcards
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| 7281464224 | Gilgamesh | A legendary king of the Sumerian city state of Uruk who is supposed to have ruled sometime during the first half of the 3rd millennium bc. | 0 | |
| 7281464225 | Epic of Gilgamesh | Recounts of his exploits in an ultimately unsuccessful quest for immortality. | 1 | |
| 7281466382 | Hammurabi's Laws (or Code of Hammurabi) | A well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating back to about 1772 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. | 2 | |
| 7281503856 | code of Ur-Nammu (Sumer) | The oldest known law code surviving today. It is from Mesopotamia and is written on tablets, in the Sumerian language. | 3 | |
| 7281608437 | Ziggurat | A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple, first attested in the late 3rd millennium bc and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel. | 4 | |
| 7281610180 | Semitic Migrants Sumerian City States | Independent cities constructed around temples and entirely self-contained within mighty perimeter walls. City-states were unified with each other only by their shared use of the Sumerian language. | 5 | |
| 7281610181 | Empire | An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. | 6 | |
| 7281610182 | Iron Metallurgy | ferrous metallurgy using iron and its alloys. | 7 | |
| 7281612323 | Cuneiform | a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. | 8 | |
| 7281612324 | Ten Commandments | The divine rules of conduct given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, according to the biblical book of Exodus. | 9 | |
| 7281614331 | Polynesian | Of or relating to Polynesia, it people, or their languages. | 10 | |
| 7281626192 | Monotheism | The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. | 11 | |
| 7281626193 | Hebrews | A member of an ancient Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham; an Israelite. | 12 | |
| 7281628468 | Judaism (Importance of Abraham, Moses, and David) | The collective monotheistic religion of the Jews. | 13 | |
| 7281628469 | Phoenician Trade | Unable to find definition. | 14 | |
| 7281630394 | Hieroglyphics | Enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing. | 15 | |
| 7281630395 | Alphabet and the Phoenicians | The oldest, verified, non-pictographic, consonantal alphabet. | 16 | |
| 7293028494 | Hittites | An Ancient Anatolian people who established an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC. | 17 | |
| 7293031837 | War Chariots | A carriage-like vehicle used in ancient times with two wheels and driven by horses mostly used for war | 18 | |
| 7293034185 | Vedic Religion | The ancient religion of the Aryan peoples who entered northwestern India from Persia c. 2000-1200 bc that became the precursor of Hinduism. | 19 | |
| 7293036880 | Zoroastrianism | a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century bc. | 20 |