AP WORLD HISTORY: ERA 1 Flashcards

7463254007	urbanization	the process of making an area more urban	0
7463286117	metallurgy	the process of making metal	1
7463350349	bronze age	a time when tools started being made of things other than stone	2
7463363833	quipu	knot of string in certain lengths to record business transactions; used by the Inca.	3
7463393057	scribe	someone who wrote and recorded history	4
7463401901	Mesopotamia	Modern day Iraq; the land between two rivers	5
7463415978	Anatolia	Modern day Turkey	6
7463421024	Ziggurats	a type of temple built in Mesopotamia	7
7463444950	Cuneiform	A writing system made by pressing the slanted edge of a stylus into clay; used in Mesopotamia	8
7463464715	Paleolithic age	old stone age; hunter-gatherer lifestyle	9
7463472683	Neolithic	new stone age; transitioning to agricultural lifestyle; made better stone tools	10
7463484368	Venus statues	statues with exaggerated female figures	11
7463493263	Catal Huyuk	A town in Anatolia based off of their trade of obsidian	12
7463502221	obsidian	a black stone that can be used to make very sharp tools	13
7463509682	Jomon	a group of people based on hunting fish instead of agriculture	14
7463540899	egalitarian	the principle that all are created equal	15
7463551494	hierachy	a system where groups are ranked above one another by status or rank	16
7463612385	silt	nutrient rich soil carried by water	17
7463616394	irrigation	ways to bring water to crops	18
7463619877	cataracts	a waterfall	19
7463630904	indigenous	native to that area	20
7463635643	dynasty	a line of hereditary rulers	21
7463649231	monumental structures	large structures such as ziggurats or pyramids	22
7463676977	social stratification	class differences based on wealth and socioeconomic classes	23
7463707199	hieroglyphics	a writing system based on pictures	24
7463729071	Rosetta stone	a stone used to decipher Egypt's text; had hieroglyphs, demotic shorthand, and Greek	25
7463753371	shaduf	a type of irrigation; a hand operated device for moving water from the river into irrigation channels	26
7463781907	Akhetatan	An Egyptian King who believed in one god, Aten	27
7463790773	Polytheism	worship of multiple gods	28
7463795841	monotheism	worship of one god	29
7463813868	Harappa	Large city in the Indus valley, the most excavated	30
7463824463	Mohenjo-Daro	"Hill of the Dead"; a large city, possibly a capital city, of the Indus valley	31
7463838791	Granary	a place where food was stored to be safe from a flood	32
7463846283	Citadel	a highly fortified part of the city, often raised higher than the rest of the city	33
7463866486	Ban Po	best excavated yangshao village	34
7463889373	Yangshao	a neolithic culture along the yellow river in China	35
7463898567	Huang He	"Yellow River", a river that runs through China, unpredictable floods	36
7463909209	oracle bones	marked bones used to tell stories or history	37
7463918971	patriarchal society	male dominated society	38
7463932701	mandate of heaven	the reasoning that if a king doesn't look after his people he may be removed from his position	39
7463944318	cavalry	fighting on horseback	40
7463950595	decentralized government	When rulers hand out power to others to rule smaller regions under his reign	41
7463965744	chinampas	a way of agriculture; raised rectangular fields in swamps	42
7463987325	Olmec	the first big civilization in the Americas	43
7464013638	Nazca lines	channels built to control irrigation	44
7464036925	Jenne-Jeno	first urban area in sub-Saharan Africa	45
7464046503	Agrarian	agricultural	46
7464054413	sedentary	stationary; living in one place	47
7464093212	aristocracy	wealthy land owners or nobility hold power	48
7464108028	bureaucracy	departments to organize a government	49
7464116690	pastoral nomads	people who move from place to place for animals	50
7464159699	city state	political organization that controls the land around it	51
7464180738	diety	gods or goddesses	52
7464202003	urban	characteristics of a city or town	53