AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards

4787884684	History	the study of past events, the era of writing	0
4787885479	Pre-History	any period before 300 B.C.E	1
4787885480	Archeology	The finding and Studying of fossils	2
4787886800	Field Work	Work conducted by a researcher in their natural environment	3
4787889216	Anthropology	The comparative study of human societies and culture and their development	4
4787890261	Neolithic Age	The new stone age, more advanced	5
4787890262	Paleolithic Age	The old stone age, less advanced	6
4787893067	Homo Sapiens Sapiens	the human species	7
4787894471	Neolithic Revolution	also known as the agricultural revolution. when the lifestyle went from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement.	8
4787894472	Hunting and Gathering	hunting wild animals like fish and gathering wild foods like berries, nuts, and vegetables.	9
4787897214	Bronze Age	The end of the Stone Age and the invention of metal.	10
4787899998	Catal Huyuk	Archeological site located in Turkey.	11
4790635386	Big History	The emerging of academic discipline which examines history from Big Bang to present.	12
4829071213	Aryans	nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system	13
4829071214	Nomads	people who wander from place to place	14
4829071215	Huns	large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses, herding cattle, sheep, and horses as well as hunting.	15
4829072144	Mesopotamia	A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires, In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires.	16
4829072145	Sumerian	The name of the first culture in the world to develop cities.	17
4829073433	Cuneiform	A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.	18
4829073434	Ziggurats	temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped	19
4829074009	City states	Different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by different rulers	20
4829074614	Babylonians	extended their empire and helped bring civilization to other parts of the Middle East; famous for Hammurabi's Law Code	21
4829074615	Hammurabi	Amorite ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.	22
4829074616	Pharaoh	A ruler of ancient Egypt	23
4829075668	Pyramids	The Sumerians, Egyptians, and Americans all built different types of this kind of structure because they all had a heavily centralized governments with emperors who were seen as closely tied to religion or were even seen as gods.	24
4829075669	Kush	An African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile. They conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.	25
4829075670	Indus river	A river that flows from Tibet, through the Himalayas and Hindu Kush into the Arabian Sea.	26
4829076538	Harappa	a large ancient city of the Indus civilization, created in present-day Pakistan	27
4829076539	Vedes	religious writings in india written in sanskrit	28
4829077408	Mahabharata	one of the two great epics of India, written in Sanskrit about 200	29
4829077409	Ramayana	one of two classical Hindu epics telling of the banishment of Rama from his kingdom and the abduction of his wife by a demon and Rama's restoration to the throne	30
4829078157	Upanishads	A major book in Hinduism that is often in the form of dialogues that explored the Vedas and the religious issues that they raised.	31
4829078158	Yellow River	Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.	32
4829079672	Pictographic/ Ideographic	a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia.	33
4829079673	Shang Zhou	Set up a new economy that rearranged the kingdom affairs.	34
4829081644	Harappa and Mohenjo Daro	The civilization of the Indus River	35
4829081645	The Olmecs	Original Mesoamericans, Giant basalt heads, killed babies, human sacrifice to gods	36
4829083182	Chavin de Hauntar	First major culture in Peru	37