Unit 1 (AP WORLD HISTORY) Flashcards

8566631786	Palaeoanthropologist	the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains	0
8566654107	myth	a traditional or legendary story	1
8566658376	Homo sapiens	Wise man; humankind	2
8566693055	evolution	a process of development	3
8566701078	ice age	A glacial epoch	4
8566706886	agricultural village	farming village	5
8566716442	fertile crescent	fertile land in Middle East	6
8566723319	Neolithic	The last phase of the Stone Age where animals are domesticated, pottery manufactured, and agriculture developed	7
8566735959	Mesopotapia	located in Middle East where the wheel, writing, and Hammurabi's Code was created	8
8566752271	draft animals	an animal used to pull heavy loads	9
8566756456	pack animal	an animal used to carry heavy loads	10
8566761382	pastoralist	a land-holder raising animals on large scales	11
8566777055	Sargon of Akkad	Mesopotamian ruler whose empire extended to the Gulf of the Mediterranean	12
8566785779	Sumer	ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that consist of many city-states	13
8566794630	city-state	a state that consist of a city	14
8566801767	Gilgamesh	a legendary Sumerian King that is the hero in an Epic	15
8566809843	ziggurat	a Sumerian temple	16
8566814721	Ur	an ancient Sumerian city	17
8566819495	pictograms	prehistoric symbols representing objects and stuff	18
8566827025	cuneiform	Babylonian writing	19
8566840440	Code of Hammurabi	first organized law that had ideas like an eye for an eye	20
8566843702	Nile River	a river in Egypt that floods yearly	21
8566847285	pharaoh	the leader of Egypt who is believed to be 2/3 god	22
8566853770	mummification	the process of preserving bodies that is used in Egypt	23
8566859366	pyramid	a burial site for pharaohs and people of Egypt that are triangular in shape	24
8566871974	Old Kingdom	earlier ancient Egypt	25
8566874609	Middle Kingdom	middle of ancient Egypt	26
8566878245	New Kingdom	later years of ancient Egypt	27
8566884485	Hyksos	nomadic people who ruled ancient Egypt	28
8566894233	Indus Valley civilization	ancient civilization in Northwest India	29
8566904873	Harappa	a site of successive cities of Indus Valley civilization	30
8566918496	Mohenjo-Daro	site in Indus Valley where six successive ancient cities were built	31
8566930084	Aryans	a member of descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European	32
8566938002	caste system	a rigid Hindu system of social classes	33
8566941728	Xia Dynasty	first dynasty in traditional Chinese history	34
8566957746	Shang Dynasty	dynasty after Xia that ruled in Yellow River Valley	35
8566960643	Zhou Dynasty	dynasty after Shang that ruled in Yellow River Valley	36
8566968557	Yellow River	a river in China that yearly floods	37
8566972321	oracle bones	ox scapula or turtle plastron which where used as paper in China	38
8566989842	sage kings	three ideal rulers of China	39
8567000063	Mandate of Heaven	a political idea in China that those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source	40
8567010499	Olmec	a Mesoamerican civilization along the Gulf of Mexico known for agriculture, dating systems, long-distant trade, and ceremonial centers	41
8567035151	Chavin	an archaeological site	42