Chapter 1 and 2 Terms (AP World History) Flashcards
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4823467594 | Big History | Historical study that examines history on a large scale across long time frames | 0 | |
4823472424 | Hominid | A creature belonging to the family hominida, which includes humans and human-like species | 1 | |
4823624467 | Homo sapiens | "A consciously thinking human" | 2 | |
4823626872 | Paleolithic | "Stone Age"- the term to describe early Homo Sapiens period of time before development of agriculture | 3 | |
4823647596 | Domestication | The tamin and changing of nature for the benefit of humankind | 4 | |
4823650808 | Fertile Crescent | Region some yikes known as Southeast Asia | 5 | |
4823659881 | Gathering and Hunting | Collecting food rather than producing it | 6 | |
4823667458 | Ice Age | Any number of cold periods in the Earth's time; the last one was at its peak some 20,000 years ago | 7 | |
4823671323 | Dreamtime | The native Austrailan Aborigine' s beliefs on how they came to be | 8 | |
4823679199 | Clovis sites | The earliest widespread and culture of North America: named from a projectile point | 9 | |
4823679200 | Egalitarian societies | Societies where people believe that all people are equal | 10 | |
4823680432 | Willendorf Venus | The Venus of Willendorf, now known in academia as the Woman of Willendorf, is an 11.1-centimetre (4.4 in) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE.[ | 11 | |
4823680433 | Shaman | A person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between human beings and supernatural forces. | 12 | |
4823680434 | Neolithic | of, relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed. | 13 | |
4823718752 | Agricultural Revolution | Also known as the Neolithic Revolution, this is the transformation of human existence caused by the deliberate cultivation of particular plants and the deliberate taming and breeding of specific animals | 14 | |
4823718753 | First globalization of humans | An early form of globalized economics and culture, known as archaic globalization, existed during the Hellenistic Age, | 15 | |
4823719985 | Pastoralism | The practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society | 16 | |
4823719986 | Teosinte | The wild ancestor of maize | 17 | |
4823723723 | Catalhuyuk | An important Neolithic site in what is now Turkey | 18 | |
4823724600 | Chiefdom | Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. | 19 | |
4823724601 | Cahokia | An important agricultural chiefdom of North America (an ancient settlement of Southern Indian , near St.Loius) | 20 | |
4823776479 | Mesopotamia | The "land between the river" , Tigris and Euohrates in modern Iraq | 21 | |
4823776480 | Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys | located in the eastern end ofthe Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea). | 22 | |
4823778538 | Egypt | Old kingdom, Middle Kingdom, new kingdom, hyksos | 23 | |
4823801719 | Nile river Valley | The Nile Valley is a region of northern Egypt where the Nile River snakes through the desert (north of Aswan) and then fans out toward the Mediterranean Sea, creating a vast, fertile region. | 24 | |
4823802663 | Mohenjo-Daro | A major city of the Indus Valley civilization, flourished around 2000 BCE | 25 | |
4823803499 | Harappa | Major Indus Valley civilization, flourished around 2000 BCE | 26 | |
4823804324 | Indus River Valley | an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea; "the valley of the Indus was the site of an early civilization" | 27 | |
4823805970 | Shang Dynasty | Period of Chinese history from 1776 to 1122 BCE | 28 | |
4823859625 | Hung He Ruver Valley | the Yellow River is not just a river; it stands for the origins of culture and civilization. It played an important role in the early development of Chinese civilization. | 29 | |
4823918486 | Olmecs | member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico ( circa 1200-400 BC), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilizatio | 30 | |
4823918487 | Mesoamerica | Mesoamerica is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. | 31 | |
4823931363 | Chavin | An early pre-Incan civilization that flourished in northern and central Peru from about 900 to 200 bc, known for its carved stone sculptures and boldly designed ceramics. | 32 | |
4823947989 | Andean Civilizations | The Andean civilizations made up a loose patchwork of different cultures that developed from the highlands of Colombia to the Atacama Desert. | 33 | |
4823947990 | Code of Hammarubi | The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). to bring about the rule in the land | 34 | |
4823949540 | Epic of Gilgamesh | An ancient wedge-shape | 35 | |
4823950488 | Hyksos | A pastoral society pof unknown ethnicity that invaded Egypt and ruled in the north from 1650 to 1533 BCE | 36 | |
4823951573 | Ziggurat | in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. | 37 | |
4823951574 | Cuneiform | An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 38 | |
4823953127 | Hieroglyphics | Ancient Egyptian writing system, literally "sacred writing" as Greeks saw them in ancient caves | 39 | |
4823953128 | Quipu | A series of knotted ropes, used for accounting and perhaps as a form of writing in the Norte Chico civilization | 40 | |
4824110130 | Oracle bones | Animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 41 | |
4824110131 | Olmec heads | These were carved in basalt and all display unique facial features so that they may be considered portraits of actual rulers. | 42 |