Chapter 1 and 2 Terms (AP World History) Flashcards

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