AP WORLD HISTORY Flashcards
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| 7223252753 | Sumer | First City in Mesopotamia (had mud walls) | 0 | |
| 7223254595 | City-State | Leaders live in the city and surrounding areas payed taxes to them. | 1 | |
| 7223291267 | Polytheism | Belief in more than one god | 2 | |
| 7223292396 | Sargon of Akkad | Captured and Defeated Sumer (Worlds First Empire) | 3 | |
| 7223300618 | Hammurabi | Ruler of Babylon (Babylon)(Hammurabi's Code) | 4 | |
| 7223303932 | Hammurabi's Code Of Laws | Harsh law biased towards the poor and slaves (Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Go Blind) | 5 | |
| 7223332532 | Assyrians | Capital was Nineveh. Most Powerful Empire the World Has Ever Known. USED IRON WEAPONS AND INTRODUCED FIRST CAVALRY. | 6 | |
| 7223344871 | Metallurgy | COPPER + TIN = BRONZE (Weapons, Plows, Tools) | 7 | |
| 7223348428 | Social Classes | King-Nobility-Priests/Religious Leaders-Peasant-Slaves (Typically Prisoners of War, Criminals, and Debtors) | 8 | |
| 7223358910 | NOT INDIA | PRIESTS ARE HIGHEST IN INDIA | 9 | |
| 7223360156 | PATRIARCHY | Literally means "rule of the father" | 10 | |
| 7223376736 | Writing | First appeared at Sumer | 11 | |
| 7223377378 | Cuneiform | First Writing (Wedge Shaped) | 12 | |
| 7223378555 | Judaism | First Monotheistic Religion | 13 | |
| 7223379092 | Abraham | Founder of all 3 Big Monotheistic Religions | 14 | |
| 7223380712 | Jews Migrated to Egypt | Egyptian Later Enslave The Jews | 15 | |
| 7223381929 | Phoenician Alphabet | 600 symbols(Cuneiform had 22) | 16 | |
| 7223385779 | The Indo-European Migrations | War Like Pastoralists from the Black Sea Steppe Domesticated The Horse (Relied on Horses for transportation) Also spread Indo-European Languages. | 17 | |
| 7223390461 | Hittites | Migrated to Anatolia (Adopted Cuneiform) Technological Innovations: Refined Iron | 18 | |
| 7223400301 | River Nile | Predictable Flooding | 19 | |
| 7223400724 | Egypt | Lower third of the Nile River | 20 | |
| 7223404358 | Nubia | Middle Third Of The Of The Nile River | 21 | |
| 7223404947 | Agriculture | Easier in Egypt than Nubia | 22 | |
| 7223405661 | Menes | 1st Pharaoh of Egypt (God King) (United Upper And Lower Egypt) | 23 | |
| 7223407072 | God King | Absolute Ruler-Owned The Land | 24 | |
| 7223414077 | Old Kingdom | Pyramids Of Giza Built (Fell Because of Drought) | 25 | |
| 7223414832 | Interaction With Nubia | Diplomacy | 26 | |
| 7223415927 | Middle Kingdom | Mentuhotep (United Egypt and Restored The Cult Of Egypt) | 27 | |
| 7223421333 | New Kingdom | Egyptian Empire (Peak of Egypt's Power) | 28 | |
| 7223423136 | Thutmose The Third | Created Egypt's Largest Empire | 29 | |
| 7223424907 | Ramsesses The Second | Built Ramessuem, House Of Life (His Descendants Lost Power and Kingdom Collapsed) | 30 | |
| 7223431920 | Nubia | Egypt was Driven Out | 31 | |
| 7223437215 | Kingdom Of Kush | Resources like Gold, Ivory, Incense, and Iron Ore (Government - Theocracy) (Patriarchy) | 32 | |
| 7223442015 | Hatshepshut | UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH | 33 | |
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