AP World History Flashcards

7098364882	Paleolithic Period	cultural period of the stone age	0
7098373664	Specialization of labor	each operation of a system is carried out by one person of small group of people	1
7098385158	artisans	people who made items others needed	2
7098385159	clan	A group of related families	3
7098385554	textiles	items made of cloth	4
7098385855	Neolithic Revolution	a period dramatic changes to how people lived their lives based on the development of agriculture	5
7098386462	hunter-forager	those that survived by hunting animals and searching for seeds, nuts, fruits, and edible roots	6
7098386599	merchants	people who buy and sell goods for a living	7
7098386600	tribe	forms when multiple clans combined	8
7098387010	Jericho	one of humankind's first cities, built on the west bank of the Jordan river	9
7098387747	monotheism	the worship of only one deity	10
7098387748	Nomadic pastoralism	simple pastoralism, moving herd of animals from one pasture to another	11
7098388517	Social stratification	social groups were based on control of resources and wealthy one could become	12
7098388518	artifacts	objects made by people in the past	13
7098388844	Catal Huyuk	one of the the first agricultural villages in the world, present-day Turkey	14
7098388845	Bronze Age	3300-2300 B.C.E. describes period when use of bronze was widespread	15
7098389216	patriarchal	societies dominated by men	16
7098389217	Kinship group	several related families that moved together in search of food	17
7098389639	Homo sapiens sapiens	the group of modern humans	18
7098389972	Overfarming	a harmful agricultural practice resulting in the loss of soil nutrients	19
7098390348	Overgrazing	continual eating of grasses and their roots	20
7098957450	desertification	the creation of desert-like conditions	21
7098957645	division of labor	the assignment of different tasks to different people or groups	22
7098957646	theocrats	Rulers holding both religious and political power	23
7098957913	Indo-European	an overarching group of languages including English, French, Latin, and greek	24
7098957914	feudalism	a system of government based on land landowners and tenants	25
7098958172	environmental degradation	damage to or destruction of the natural environment	26
7098958173	barter	a system by which one thing is exchanged for another	27
7098958400	Golden Age	a period of peace, prosperity, and innovation	28
7098958401	papyrus	a type of plant that grew along the Nile River	29
7098958626	Mandate of Heaven	an idea that a just ruler's power was bestowed by the gods	30
7098959011	deforestation	is the clearing of trees, transforming a forest into cleared land.	31
7098959012	polytheistic	worshipping many gods	32
7098960162	ancestor veneration	Worship and respect for ancestors	33
7098960370	alphabetic script	a system of symbols that represent the sounds of speech	34
7098960371	empire	a large territory that included diverse cultural groups	35
7098960585	loess	a type of fertile soil that is yellow	36
7098960586	ziggurats	Sumerian large stepped pyramids	37
7098960806	cuneiform	world's first writing system created by Sumerians	38
7098960807	Sanskrit	Aryans sacred language	39
7098961408	city-states	a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory	40
7105486581	Royal Road	the most famous network of roads that encouraged trade	41
7105487250	syncretic	combining ideas from different sources	42
7105487251	aristocracy	government that was ruled by the nobles of the state	43
7105487722	direct democracy	a government of which citizens could vote directly	44
7105487723	hoplites	citizen soldiers	45
7105488243	aristocrats	rich landowners	46
7105488464	Socratic Method	method of learning through questions	47
7105488465	Zoroastrianism	faith that was based on the belief in one god, Ahura Mazda or "wise lord''	48
7105488834	oligarchy	a government that was ruled by the wealthy landowners and merchants of a state	49
7105488835	representative democracy	citizens elect leaders to represent them and gives leaders the power to do what is needed	50
7105489341	archons	council of nobles	51
7112449848	merchants	people who buy and sell goods for a living	52
7105489342	Golden Mean	emphasis on moderation; avoiding extreme behaviors	53
7105489835	qanat	underground canals	54
7105491108	tyrants	leaders who seized power with the people's support	55
7105491388	Persian Wars	Series of conflicts fought between Greek states and the Persian Empire.	56
7105491389	helots	slaves	57
7105492006	caravanserai	combination inns and markets along the Royal Roads	58
7105492007	empiricism	one has learned from observation and evidence of the senses	59
7105492338	monarchies	Countries ruled by a king or queen	60
7105492708	democracy	all citizens of the state participated in the government	61
7105492709	Hellenistic Period	the time between the death of Alexander the great and the rise of the Roman domination.	62
7105493325	satraps	a ruler of a province who was responsible to the emperor	63
7105494476	Common currency	Created by Rome to make trade easier between different parts of the empire	64
7110374999	tribute	payments from the conquered to the conqueror	65
7110375000	hieroglyphics	Egyptians writing using pictures and symbols	66
7110375698	Caracol	an observatory located in the city of Chichen Itza	67
7110375699	Teotihuacan	"birthplace of the gods"	68
7110376149	ayllus	small communities based on the idea of communal work	69
7110376150	Classic Period	highest peak of the Mayan civiliation	70
7110376602	Chichen Itza	location of the Caracol	71
7110376603	Olmec	First great civilization in central Mexico	72
7110377234	Mesoamerica	Middle America, including Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize	73
7110377235	Obsidian	hard glass rock	74
7110377765	Mayan	Ancient civilization that stretched from the southern part of Mexico into present day Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala	75
7110377766	Huaca del Sol	Temple of the Sun; a stepped pyramid	76
7110378582	mother civilization	Has influence on later civilizations	77
7110379368	Slash-and-burn agriculture	the process of cutting down trees and plants then burn that area to fertilize the area for the growth of crops	78
7110379369	Maya	people of the Olmec society that cultivated the lowlands of Mesoamerica	79
7110379857	Huaca de la Luna	Temple of the Moon; a terraced platform	80
7110381805	Moche	Early Peruvian culture	81