AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards

7086513158	Paleolithic Period	A period of time that began 2.5 million years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago. Also referred to as the Stone Age.	0
7086513159	Neolithic Revolution	A set of dramatic changes in how people lived based on the development of agriculture.	1
7086513649	monotheism	Religious group that worships one deity.	2
7086513650	Bronze Age	The creation or Bronze sparked the age, which began at different times and different places between 3300 and 2300 B.C.E.	3
7086514611	Specialization of labor	People to focus on limited tasks	4
7086514612	hunter-forager	People who survive by hunting animals and foraging for seeds, nuts, and edible roots.	5
7086516392	Nomadic pastoralism	The moving of animals herd from pasture to pasture.	6
7086516393	patriarchal	Dominated by men.	7
7086518052	artisans	People who made objects that others needed	8
7086518626	merchants	People who buy and sell goods for a living.	9
7086518627	Social stratification	People accumulated wealth	10
7086518864	Kinship group	Several related families that migrated together in search of food.	11
7086520473	clan	A group of multiple Kinship groups.	12
7086520474	tribe	Combination of multiple clans, used for group hunting or mutual defense from enemies.	13
7086521045	artifacts	Objects made by people in the past.	14
7086520770	Homo sapiens sapiens	Modern day humans.	15
7086523665	textiles	items made of cloth.	16
7086525306	Jericho	One of the World's first cities, created on the banks of the Jordan	17
7086525307	Catal Huyuk	Ancient city in present day turkey	18
7086523666	Overfarming	land's lose of fertility caused by to much farming.	19
7086545786	Overgrazing	continual eating of grasses or their roots, without allowing them to regrow.	20
7086969902	desertification	The creation of desert like conditions.	21
7086970667	environmental degradation	a deterioration of the enviroemnt	22
7086969903	deforestation	the clearing of forests	23
7086969904	loess	type of fertile soil that is yellow in color	24
7086973027	division of labor	the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process	25
7086975835	barter	a system by which one thing is exchanged for another.	26
7086973028	polytheistic	Worshiping many gods	27
7086973029	ziggurats	large stepped pyramids	28
7086976558	theocrats	rulers holding both religious and political power	29
7086977222	Golden Age	a period in society of relative peace, prosperity, and innovation.	30
7086976559	ancestor veneration	belief that the spirits of their ancestors could speak to the gods for them	31
7086976560	cuneiform	marks carved on wet clay tablets	32
7086982526	Indo-European	relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India	33
7086978701	papyrus	type of plants that grew along the Nile River, used to make paper	34
7086978702	alphabetic script	a system of symbols that represent the sounds of speech	35
7086979219	Sanskrit	The Aryan's sacred language	36
7086979673	feudalism	the dominant social system	37
7086980167	Mandate of Heaven	idea that a just ruler's power was bestowed by the gods.	38
7086981938	Empire	a large territory that included diverse cultural groups	39
7086980492	city-states	city with land, with its own individual government	40
7093456206	Royal Road	road that spanned around 1,500 miles across the Persian empire.	41
7093456207	syncretic	combining ideas from different sources	42
7093456208	aristocracy	form of government; noble rule	43
7093456511	direct democracy	form of government; all citizens could vote directly on laws	44
7093456512	hoplites	infantry members	45
7093456901	aristocrats	member of aristocracy	46
7093457472	Socratic Method	asking questions to systematically clarify another person's ideas and to identify the core of them.	47
7093457473	Zoroastrianism	a faith based on the belief in one god, created by the Persian prophet Zarathustra	48
7093457474	oligarchy	form of government; a few wealthy land owners and merchants ruler	49
7093458913	representative democracy	form of government; citizens elect leaders to represent them and give those leaders to make laws and govern.	50
7093458914	archons	The nine chief magistrates of Athens	51
7093459708	merchants	a person involved in wholesale trade	52
7093461179	Golden Mean	Aristotle's emphasis on moderation	53
7093461180	qanat	undergrounds canals	54
7093461181	tyrants	leaders who seized power with the people's power	55
7093463223	Persian Wars	conquered Greek colonies rebelled in campaigns	56
7093463224	helots	slaves	57
7093465590	caravanserai	combination of inns and markets along the Royal Road	58
7093467057	empiricism	trusting what one learned from observation and evidence of the senses, rather than emphasizing intuition or religious beliefs	59
7093467058	monarchies	form of government; a king rules	60
7093467059	democracy	form of government; all citizens participate in government	61
7093467545	Hellenistic Period	meaning the the period of the Greeks	62
7093467546	satraps	ruler of a province who was responsible to the emperor	63
7093467552	Common currency	when a country or multiple countries to peg their exchange rates in order to keep the value of the currency	64
7093468703	tribute	An act or gift, intended to show gratitude or respect	65
7093468704	hieroglyphics	writing consisting of hieroglyphs, pictures/markings	66
7093469437	Caracol	an observatory in Chichen Itza	67
7093469438	Teotihuacan	city founded around 150 B.C.E., birth place of the gods.	68
7093471047	ayllus	small communities based on the idea of communal work	69
7093471048	Classic Period	height of the Mayan civilization, 250 and 900 C.E.	70
7093471049	Chichen Itza	a city	71
7093471050	Olmec	Foundational civilization that influenced the mayans and aztecs.	72
7093473671	Mesoamerica	early civilizations in the Americas	73
7093473672	Obsidian	hard glass-like rock	74
7093473673	Mayan	A civilization based on the Olmecs	75
7093474039	Huaca del Sol	Temple of the Sun, stepped pyramid.	76
7093476456	mother civilization	earlier civilizations that influenced later ones;Olmecs	77
7093476457	Slash-and-burn agriculture	the creation of fields by cutting down vegetation then burning it	78
7093477173	Maya	people of the Mayan culture	79
7093477970	Huaca del Luna	Temple of the Moon, terraced platform	80
7093478743	Moche	one of the most siginifiagant civilization in the Andes.	81