AP WORLD HISTORY LHS Flashcards
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| 3558393045 | Civilization | an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached. | 0 | |
| 3558411709 | Monumental Agriculture | A very important crop, kind of like a cash crop. | 1 | |
| 3558413480 | Ziggurat | Stepped pyramids | 2 | |
| 3558416168 | Cunieform | Sumerians form of writing with wedge shaped chunks taken out of rocks. | 3 | |
| 3558425518 | Hieroglyphics | Egyptian form of writing using pictures/symbols | 4 | |
| 4753596802 | Vedas/Vedic Tradition | The religion of the ancient Indo-European-speaking peoples. It takes its name from the collections of sacred texts known as the Vedas. | 5 | |
| 4753600259 | Zoroastrianism | A monotheistic religion founded by Zoroaster. | 6 | |
| 4753611025 | Polytheism | Religion with many different Gods. | 7 | |
| 4753612717 | Monotheism | Religion with only one God. | 8 | |
| 4753620883 | Environmental Determinism | The study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular development trajectories. | 9 | |
| 4753622655 | Mandate Of Heaven | The idea that the Gods chose those who should rule. | 10 | |
| 4753627206 | Pictographic writing | A picture representing a word, phrase, or idea. | 11 | |
| 4753628512 | Oracle Bones | Using bone or horn with heated pins to create cracks, then reading these cracks to read responses from the Gods. | 12 | |
| 4753630283 | Pharaoh | The greatest ruler in Egypt. | 13 | |
| 4753631134 | Ur | An important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia. | 14 | |
| 4753635242 | Centralized | Control under one authority only. | 15 | |
| 4753637134 | Decentralized | Control under several people of authority. | 16 | |
| 4753639069 | City-States | Independent places with their own government. | 17 | |
| 4753640794 | Ancestor Veneration | The idea that deceased ancestors had connection to the Gods and could communicate with them for current living family. | 18 | |
| 4753643106 | Aryans | Indo-European speaking people from Central Asia who migrated into India. | 19 | |
| 4753647878 | Hierarchy | A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 20 | |
| 4753648578 | Divine | Of, from, or like God or a god. | 21 | |
| 4753649825 | Bartering | Exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money. | 22 | |
| 4753650612 | Irrigation | Irrigation is the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture. | 23 | |
| 4753652328 | Hammurabi's Code | Oldest written law code, "an eye for an eye". | 24 | |
| 4753655344 | Iron Metallurgy | Extracting metal from its ores. | 25 | |
| 4753657031 | Charriots | A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in ancient warfare and racing. | 26 |