AP World History CH.2 Flashcards

7425253461	Gilgamesh	5th king of Urk City; 2750 B.C.E	0
7425255165	Mesopotamia	The land between the rivers; Tigris and Euphrates	1
7425258615	Tigris and Euphrates rivers	Brought large volumes of water; one of 4 river valleys	2
7425258616	Sumerians	People who inhabited the land in sixth millennium; irrigation networks	3
7425260824	Semitic	migrants from other regions; spoke tongues	4
7425263079	Phoenician	Language spoke in the Semitic family languages	5
7425266898	Ziggurats	Pyramids that housed temples	6
7425268684	Sargon of Akkad	A city near Kish and Babylon; seized trade routes and natural resources ; gradually collapsed	7
7425268685	Hammurabi	Centralizes the bureaucracy and regulates taxation	8
7425273069	Lex Talionis	A latin phrase that means the law of retaliaton	9
7425273070	Assyrians	Hardy people from northern Mesopotamia ; built state in the tigris rivers	10
7425276007	Nebuchadnezzar	King from 600 to 550 B.C.E; lavished wealth and on his city	11
7425278033	Metallurgy	Pottery, textile manufacture,woodworking,leather production, brick making, stone cutting, and masonry; Science and technology	12
7425280432	Cuneiform	Sumerian writing also known as.. In latin meaning "wedged shaped"	13
7425284026	Hebrews/Israelites/Jews	collection of sacred writing. Speakers,form a branch of hebrews and kingdom of Judah	14
7425284027	Monotheism	only one god	15
7425286636	Indo-European	Tribal groups from southern Russia, languages such as Basque,Finnish and Hungarian	16
7425288395	Hittites	Most influential Indo-European; Migrated from central Plain of Anatolia; Built powerful kingdoms	17
7425288396	War Chariots	Technology (Horse, two wheeled vehicle in war) Chariots (spokes) and iron metallurgy	18
7425291733	Xinjiang	Western Chinese Providence	19