AP World History Terms 1 Flashcards

7345931170	Neolithic Revolution	Shift from nomadic, hunter gatherer society to agricultural society.	0
7345933449	Early River Valley Agriculture	Reliant on river flooding, prompted need for irrigation	1
7345934998	Religion in early agricultural societies	Based on natural world	2
7345936755	Specialization	A non-food producing job, enabled by a food surplus	3
7345937970	City State	A self governing territory comprised of farmlands surrounding urban areas and had a tendency to argue with one another	4
7345940377	Hammurabi	Hammurabi's Code, eye for an eye as long as you were in the same class.	5
7345941528	Anthropomorphic	"In one's own image" used to describe how humans often present gods	6
7345943438	Cuneiform	Pictorial writing system that took hold in Mesopotamia and partly in Egypt	7
7345944687	Egyptian Geography	Surrounded by natural borders, Nile provided consistent flooding	8
7345946115	Mesopotamian Geography	At a continental cross roads, and irregular, sometimes intense flooding would destroy irrigation systems and cause harvest problems.	9
7345949108	Ma'at	The Egyptian reasoning for the order of the universe, kept in order by the Pharaoh	10
7345951333	Mohenjo-Daro and Harrapa		11
7345951334	Loess	A yellow-green topsoil that gives the Huang He (Yellow River) its color	12
7345953202	Feng Shui		13
7345953203	Mandate of Heaven	Justification for monarchies and dynasties in ancient China, whatever happened was the will of the gods	14
7345955735	Legalism	Philosophy that states that humans are inherently evil and order is needed to maintain society.	15
7345957525	Hittites	Anatolian peoples, discovered how to smith iron effectively and attempted to hide the secret	16
7345958632	Egyptian New Kingdom	Focused on expansion, more prosperous than the middle kingdom	17
7345961326	Akhenaten	Egyptian pharaoh who attempted to convert Egypt to monotheism and worship Aten	18
7345964370	Minoans	People who lived on the island of Crete	19
7345965027	Mycenaeans	"Pre Greeks", mainly pastoralists and used stone age tools.	20
7349201464	Shaft Graves	Graves found in both Mycenaean and Chinese cultures, contained precious items which speaks to a belief in the afterlife	21
7349207041	Neo-Assyrian Empire	An empire famous for its brutal military and massive empire.	22
7349209561	Hebrew Monotheism	The Hebrews were the first significant group to adopt monotheism, and they believed that they were god's chosen people and that all other gods and idols were false.	23
7349212525	Israel/Judah	The two territories that Israel became when it split. They often fought with each other but were sometimes friendly.	24
7349216224	Diaspora	The separation/dispersion of the Jews which began in Persia when Cyrus gave them the choice of returning to their holy land or staying in Persia	25
7349220936	Nebuchadnezzar	The Babylonian king who took Israel and destroyed the temple at Jerusalem.	26
7349226438	Phoenicians/Carthage	After the Assyrians destroyed some Canaanite cities, City states in that area started to develop civilization which later brought a phonetic writing system and trade that helped connect parts of the Mediterranean.	27
7349235300	Cyrus the Great	Persian king who conquered more territory than the Persians had ever seen before. He is famous for his tolerance of religion, language, etc.	28
7349238012	Persian Empire	Very tolerant and briefly prosperous before deflation plagued the empire.	29
7349241592	Zoroastrianism	First major shift to monotheism. Found mainly in Persia, it was one of the first religions to pick up elements of the "battle between good and evil".	30
7349246314	Greek Agriculture	Since Greece is mainly mountainous and rocky, the only tradable crops that they grew were olive trees and grape vines. They traded olive oil and wine for necessities.	31
7349251378	Polis	The greek term for a city	32
7349252903	Athenian Democracy	Allowed free male citizens to vote, and was very radical at the time.	33
7349255920	Greek religion/philosophy	Philosophy stood on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Religion was polytheistic, with gods of nature but often took anthropomorphic forms. Sacrifice was a cornerstone of Greek religion.	34
7349273848	Athens/Sparta	Athens: Focused on art, science, philosophy, and education for the rich. Women had a very restricted role in the community, staying in the home. Athen was set up as an early version of democracy. Their military achievement was their navy. Sparta: Ridiculously militaristic, boys left for brutal military training at seven. The government was set up as an oligarchy, with elders in charge. Women had a much more prominent role in society, running businesses and owning land.	35