AP World History (Summer) Flashcards

4763744425	Periodization (BCE&CE, BC&AD)	BCE: before common era CE: common era BC: before Christ AD: anno domini	0
4763745491	Paleolithic	relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.	1
4763745492	Neolithic	relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.	2
4763744426	metallurgy	study of metal	3
4763744427	textile	type of cloth	4
4763744428	Neolithic Revolution	aka agricultural revolution; the beginning of farming	5
4763744429	Epic of Gilgamesh	a long epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia	6
4763745857	irrigation	the method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture	7
4763744430	Hammurabi's Code	a uniform code of law that deals with every aspect of life; written down in Babylon	8
4763744433	cuneiform	a system of writing used in Sumer	9
4763744434	Moses	the man who led the Israelites out of Egypt (Judaism)	10
4763744435	polytheism	belief in many gods	11
4763744436	semitic	indicates people who speak Hebrew, Arabic, or Aramaic	12
4763744437	city-state	a city and its surrounding land which functions as its own independent country	13
4763744438	Indo-Europeans	group of nomadic people who came from the steppes	14
4763746550	pastoral nomads	are producers of food and raise livestock; they move about within their established territory to find good pastures for their animals	15
4763746551	Hebrews	people who descended from the patriarch Jacob; live in what is now Israel and Palestine	16
4763746552	Jews	a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins to the ancient Hebrew people of Israel	17
4763746771	Israelites	a member of the ancient Hebrew nation, especially in the period from the Exodus to the Babylonian Captivity	18
4763746772	Abraham	the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation; "father of many"	19
4763746851	Monotheism	the doctrine or belief that there is only one God	20
4763744439	Phoenicians	excellent seafarers; created the alphabet; large network of trade	21
4763744440	savannah	a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees	22
4763744441	pharaoh	Egyptian king who acted as a god	23
4763744442	mercenary	a soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army	24
4763744444	hieroglyphics	Egyptian system of writing	25
4763744445	Rosetta Stone	black stone inscribed in three languages (Greek, hieroglyphics, simple hieroglyphics; helped to translate hieroglyphics	26
4763744446	Aryans	one group of Indo-Europeans who moved into the Indus river valley	27
4763744450	Brahman	highest position in the cast system; priest	28
4763744451	karma	goods or bad deeds	29
4763744452	dharma	Buddhist doctrines	30
4763744453	ascetic	practice of severe self-discipline	31
4763744456	Shang dynasty	first to leave written records	32
4763744457	Zhou dynasty	start of Mandate of Heaven and feudalism	33
4763744458	Qin dynasty	used Legalist ideas to subdue the warring state; program of centralization	34
4763744459	Han dynasty	established a centralizing policy; encouraged Confucianism; advances in technology	35
4763744460	mandate of heaven	the right from God to rule	36
4763744461	decentralized administration	admisitration rulers entrust power to subordinates who owed allegiance,tribute, and military support to the gov't	37
4763744462	royal court	place where an important ruler lives	38
4763750562	artisans	a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand	39
4763744466	maize	corn; cultivated in the Americas	40
4763744467	Bering land bridge	a land bridge that appeared during the Ice Age which connected Alaska and Russia.	41
4763751774	River Valley Civilizations	Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and China	42