ap world history part 1 Flashcards
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| 7233763804 | Why were Egyptian calendars so important? | it predicted the flood of the nile | 0 | |
| 7233764688 | ziggurats | a stepped pyramid that honored Inanna | 1 | |
| 7233766089 | Where did the earliest humans come from? | africa | 2 | |
| 7233766749 | The Hanging Gardens of Babylon | were created by King Nebuchadnezzar to represent the luxuriousness of the city | 3 | |
| 7233767835 | Major harappan cities | harappa and mohenjo-daro | 4 | |
| 7233768312 | ancient Indian gods | brahma and indra | 5 | |
| 7233770310 | Mayan "ball games" | used a rubber ball to play and the team that lost were to be sacrificed | 6 | |
| 7233770311 | Lapita | 7 | ||
| 7233771462 | Aryan social hierarchy | Brahmins- priests Kshatriyas- warriors and aristocrats Vaishyas-cultivators artisans and merchants Shandras-landless peasants | 8 | |
| 7233773084 | Varna | means "color caste system of the aryan | 9 | |
| 7233773085 | Jati | subcategories of the caste system (subcastes) | 10 | |
| 7233774431 | The phoenician alphabet | 22 symbols that represented consonants and no vowels | 11 | |
| 7233775274 | What were the effects of the Bantu migration? | brought their language and | 12 | |
| 7233775275 | Homo Habilis | (man of skills) found in east africa and created stone tools | 13 | |
| 7233777162 | Geographical barriers to the Bantu migration | 14 | ||
| 7233777163 | The state of Chu | zhou dynasty | 15 | |
| 7233777733 | Abraham | 16 | ||
| 7233780154 | Mary and Louise Leakey are called the "first family of paleontology" | found the first woman named Lucy | 17 | |
| 7233780166 | "Upright men" | homo erectus were know as the "upright human being". they were the first to use fire and first to migrate and leave africa to europe and asia | 18 | |
| 7233780806 | Vedas | numerous songs and poems: the earliest and most important is Rig Veda | 19 | |
| 7233780807 | upanishads | karma; sought to achieve moksha | 20 | |
| 7233782121 | Mayan calendar | solor year and ritual year | 21 | |
| 7233782122 | karma | what youve done effects your fate or future | 22 | |
| 7233782123 | gilgamesh | *fifth king of Uruk *Epic of Gilgamesh *constructed the massive walls of Uruk | 23 | |
| 7233782810 | hammurabi | babylonian conqueror that created a code of laws | 24 | |
| 7233782811 | the structure of the caste system | Priests Warriors Artisans Peasants Untouchables | 25 | |
| 7233783307 | judaism | 26 | ||
| 7233784915 | tuthmosis III | ruled with his step-mom queen Hatshepsut | 27 | |
| 7233787332 | characteristics of the neolithic revolution | also known as the agricultural revolution; transition from nomadic lifestyle and hunting to stationary, domestication of animals, and crops | 28 | |
| 7235408921 | egyptian gods | 29 | ||
| 7235411101 | mayan civilization | 30 | ||
| 7235412041 | pharaohs | thutmosis III; King Tut; Ramses II | 31 | |
| 7235412882 | the phoencians | merchants that migrated to mediterranian coast; alphabet; | 32 | |
| 7235413941 | what genus does modern human beings belong to? | homo sapiens | 33 | |
| 7235415006 | the importance of rivers to all civilizations | irrigation for their crops | 34 | |
| 7235418412 | How were the Egyptian civilization and the Sumerian civilization similar? | 35 | ||
| 7235419064 | the Aztec | 36 | ||
| 7235419065 | the conquest of the Aztec | 37 | ||
| 7235421042 | Mesopotamian writing systems | cuneiform | 38 | |
| 7235421043 | hyksos | "foreign rulers; introduced horses and horse drawn chariots to egypt; captured memphis | 39 | |
| 7235422814 | assyrians | brought back imperial rule to mesopotamia; | 40 | |
| 7235422815 | menes | unifier of upper and lower egypt | 41 | |
| 7235422816 | sargon | king of kish; conquered city-states and seized trade routes and natural resources; first empire | 42 | |
| 7235423428 | the epic of gilgamesh | series of stories about Gilgamesh and his friend, Enkidu, and their heroicness adventures | 43 | |
| 7235451303 | The Aryans | took indra as leader; "noble people"; vedas; caste system; sacred language sanskrit | 44 | |
| 7235452867 | The indo-european language | 45 | ||
| 7235454197 | results of bantu migration | iron metallurgy; language; new crops | 46 | |
| 7235454198 | veneration of ancestors | 47 | ||
| 7235454732 | oracle bones | fortune tellers carved a question in a bone and subjected it to heat and used the splits to determine the answer | 48 | |
| 7235454733 | chavin cult | cult arose when maize became an important crop, however there is not much information on the cult | 49 | |
| 7235455458 | the maya | earliest heirs of the olmecs | 50 | |
| 7235456088 | mayan creation story | popul vuh | 51 | |
| 7235456089 | brahman | people wanted to achieve moksha unify their soul with the universal soul, Brahman | 52 | |
| 7235457696 | the progression for ancient civilizations for the development of metals | 53 | ||
| 7235457697 | harappan civilization | sewage system; untranslated language; ended by natural disasters and deforestation | 54 | |
| 7235458888 | Qin dynasty | came after the zhou dynasty | 55 | |
| 7235458889 | Zhou dynasty | iron metallurgy, "the mandate of heaven"; | 56 | |
| 7235459316 | Shang dynasty | bronze metallurgy; horse drawn chariots; powerful army | 57 | |
| 7235460386 | what did all the early civilizations have in common | 58 | ||
| 7235462939 | nubian cities | small kingdoms; Kush; heiroglyphics; amon and re; built pyramids | 59 | |
| 7235464546 | which mesoamerican civilization did not form a system of writing? | 60 |