AP world history chapters 1-6 Flashcards

4787124763	Australopithecus	oldest known ancestor of humans	0
4787128342	Homo erectus	a human-like species that stands vertically more than 3 feet tall	1
4787130701	Neanderthal	early humans common during the Paleolithic Era	2
4787134746	Venus figurines	small sculptures of women with exaggerated sexual features to express their interest in fertility	3
4787139675	Paleolithic Era	old stone age	4
4787140987	Neolithic Era	new stone age	5
4787145005	permanent settlements	What happens when a society becomes agricultural?	6
4787148318	Neolithic revolution	The transition to agriculture is known as what?	7
4787151998	land	What mainly determined one's wealth?	8
4787163267	egalitarian	During Paleolithic times, genders in society were considered what?	9
4787174693	fire	What resource allowed the Homo erectus species to survive through ice ages?	10
4787190695	the land between the rivers	What is Mesopotamia also known as?	11
4787193320	lex talonis	law of retaliation	12
4787197109	Cuneiform	wedge shaped characters used in the ancient Mesopotamian writing system	13
4787210287	Epic of Gilgamesh	epic poem from Mesopotamia	14
4787216730	Phoenician	member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia; devised the first alphabetic script containing 22 symbols representing consonants	15
4787226984	Tigris and Euphrates	Which two rivers did ancient Mesopotamia lie between?	16
4787234503	Sargon of Akkad	Minister to the King of Kish who organized a coup against him and an army which he traveled with, conquering cities (2300s BCE)	17
4787246654	Hammurabi	King of the 4 quarters of the world, who ruled from Babylon and taxed citizens through officials; he created 282 laws to unify the society (1792-1750 BCE)	18
4787260950	Hittites	ancient peoples of Anatolia who had iron and therefore ended the first Babylonian empire (1595 BCE)	19
4787277419	Assyria	conquered northern kingdoms of Israel, used chariots, and had libraries in the cites Ninevah and Assur (1300-612 BCE)	20
4787296448	Babylon	King Nebuchandnezzar ruled this empire and lavished wealth and resources on his city; conquered Jerusalem (600-550 BCE)	21
4787310010	Mesopotamians	Who invented bronze?	22
4787312827	Mesopotamia	What civilization discovered iron metallurgy, wheels, and a 12 month calendar?	23
4787333100	Hyksos	invaders who seized the Nile delta and helped bring an end to the Egyptian Middle kingdom	24
4787338821	hieroglyphs	Egyptian form of writing	25
4787341537	Bantu peoples	Who populated sub-Saharan Africa?	26
4787346276	Menes	conqueror who founded the city of Memphis	27
4787352726	Archaic, Old Kingdom, New Kingdom	Name 3 time periods used to describe the chronology of ancient Egypt	28
4787365381	pharaoh, administrators, and military	Name the 3 highest social classes in ancient Egyptian society	29
4787372636	polytheistic	Describe the type of religion of the people of ancient Egypt	30
4787375248	Egypt and Nubia	Name 2 civilizations of the Nile River valley	31
4787392603	Rig Veda	earliest and most important Veda	32
4787397051	Brahmins (preists), Kshatriyahs (warriors and aristocrats), Vaishyas (cultivators, artisans, merchants), Shudras (landless peasants and serfs)	Name the 4 classes of the caste system	33
4787411632	Jati	Subcaste	34
4787416802	Dravidian peoples	The Harappan society was built by	35
4787424302	cotton, chickens	What two things were the South Asians known for cultivating?	36
4787434661	Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro	Name 2 most important south Asian cities	37
4787439398	Mohenjo-Daro	What city had broad streets, a community pool, and a complex sewage system?	38
4787444695	karma	the sum of a persons actions deciding their fate in future existences	39
4787451495	Vedic age	the age of conflicts between Aryans and indigenous enemies, chiefdoms with rajas, and the composition of the Vedas	40
4787461928	Aryans	These people depended on a pastoral economy with sheep and goats and prized horses and cattle	41
4787485055	Yellow river	also known as Huang He, this river deposits fertile soil called loess and periodically floods "China's sorrow"	42
4787498870	Yangshao society	a society in the middle region of the Yellow river valley, Bampo village, bronze tools (5000-3000 BCE)	43
4787510100	Xia	What was the very first dynasty? (2200-1766 BCE)	44
4787525076	Shang	What was the second dynasty? (1766-1122 BCE)	45
4787532512	Zhou	What was the third dynasty? (1122-256 BCE)	46
4787551023	Shang dynasty	Which dynasty was known for a state monopoly on bronze, horse-drawn chariots, and the capital city moving 6 times?	47
4787564409	Zhou dynasty	Which dynasty was known for rule by decree (no law codes), the Mandate of Heaven, decentralization of authority, and the development of iron weaponry?	48
4787582740	the Period of the warring states	internal dissention caused	49
4787589490	Ruling classes, artisans and craftsmen, merchant class, semi-servile peasants, slaves	Chinese social order	50
4787598894	ancestors	Chinese worshiped their	51
4787605071	question written on a bone, which is heated and the cracks are examined for omens	What is an oracle bone?	52
4787612386	pictograph to ideograph	Describe the evolution of Chinese script	53
4787622427	Qin	Chinese dynasty marked by the first unification of China and the early construction of walls	54
4787635568	steppe nomads	Peoples known for cultivation, extensive herding and trade with sedentary cultures in China	55
4787656886	Yangzi	also known as the Chang Jiang, this river's valley is good for rice cultivation, and an irrigation system was developed	56
4787668704	state of Chu	autonomous, challenged the Zhou dynasty, culture heavily influenced by Chinese	57
4787704708	Mandate of Heaven	ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly	58
4787682643	Olmec	What term means rubber people?	59
4787698503	maize	What is a staple in the Mesoamerican diet?	60
4787717513	turkeys and small dogs	Name 2 animals the Olmecs domesticated and ate	61
4787727772	Olmec civilization	Large head sculptures are associated with which civilization?	62
4787778813	terrace farming	Maya farming technique	63
4787789744	chocolate, currency	What purposes were cacao beans used for?	64
4787801397	Maya	Who invented the number 0?	65
4787811605	they were sacrificed	What happened to losers of the ball game?	66
4787823925	bloodletting, sacrifice	Name 2 rituals often performed to honor the Maya gods	67
4787833006	Teotihuacan	Ceremonial city in the highlands of Mexico with extensive trade networks	68
4787847285	Chavin Cult	New religion in the Central Andes that revolved around maize	69
4787868839	the gods would send rain for their crops	What did the Maya believe would happen if they performed bloodletting rituals?	70
4787874291	Mochica state	What state dominated Peru from 300 to 700 CE?	71
4787886864	Lapita peoples	What peoples were found throughout the Pacific island, herded animals, and farmed?	72
4787898134	migration	What did the land bridges and lower seas permit?	73
4787899806	New Guinea	Where did Austronesian seafarers settle and introduce agriculture?	74
4787927026	boomerangs, axes, nets	List 3 items the hunter-gatherers in Australia had that made it easier to bring down large animals	75
4787934825	canoes	How did the Austronesian migrants reach Polynesia?	76
4787939062	first African country to adopt Christianity	What is Axum?	77