AP World History *In Progress* Flashcards
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| 4757168035 | Neolithic | "New stone age," the last division of the stone age, immediately preceding the development of metallurgy and corresponding to the ninth to fifth millenia B.C.E. It was characterized by the increasing domestication of animals and cultivation of crops, established agriculture community, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving | 0 | |
| 4757168036 | The Fertile Crescent | The Tigris and Euphrates rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages, about 10000 years ago, and the first known cities in human history, about 5000 years ago. Fertile lands extended to the Mediterranean and some contact apparently continued on the Nile valley. Its borders were defined to the south by arid regions receiving less than 10 inches of rainfall per year, and to the north by mountains and semi arid plateaux. | 1 | |
| 4757168037 | Innovation | The explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people were invented independently rather than spread from one group to another | 2 | |
| 4757168038 | Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another | 3 | |
| 4757168039 | Ziggurat | A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia, constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size, usually with a shrine on top built of blue enamel bricks, the color of the sky | 4 | |
| 4757174503 | pictogram | A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept | 5 | |
| 4757174504 | Cuneiform | A writing system in use in the ancient Near East from around the end of the fourth millennium to the first century B.C.E. The earliest examples are in Sumer. The name derives from the wedge-shaped marks made by pressing the slanted edge of a stylus into soft clay | 6 | |
| 4757174505 | Ideogram | A character or figures in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather its name. Languages such as Chinese use Ideogram | 7 | |
| 4757174506 | Bars-relief | In sculpture, relief is a term for any work in which the forms stand out from the background. In bars (or low) relief, the design projects only slightly from the background and the outline are not undercut | 8 | |
| 4816220473 | Transhumance | The practice of shifting residence and livestock between mountains and valleys according to the season of the year | 9 |