AP world history chap 2 Flashcards

10488718854	attributes of civilization	Organized central government Job specilization Complex religions Cities Public works Writing and art	0
10488718855	Sumer organization comparison to egypt	Sumer-competing city states Egypt-united under one pharaoh	1
10488718856	Quipu	System of noted rope used for accounting purposes (note Chico)	2
10488718857	Indus valley	Present day Pakistan birthed civilizations	3
10488718858	irrigation	A way of supplying water to an area of land	4
10488718859	Aspects of early Indus civilization	Elaborately planned cities No palaces or temples Ceremonial bathing Ritual burning Elephant in religious	5
10488718860	3 Chinese dynasties	Zhou 700-1000 Shang 1000-1500 Xia 1500-2200	6
10488718861	Son of Heaven	Title of the ruler of China, first known from the Zhou dynasty. It acknowledges the ruler's position as intermediary between heaven and earth.	7
10488718862	Oracle Bones	Where the earliest forms of Chinese bones where found used to help gov or predict future	8
10488718863	Oxus valley	Present day Afghanistan or Turkmenistan	9
10488718864	What was the Oxus valley the focus of	Eurasian-wide system of intellectual and cultural exchange with Chinese,Indian,and Mesopotamian,civilizations as well as pastoral nomads of the steppe lands and forest dwellers of Siberia	10
10488718865	Olmecs	Located coast of guel Mexico in Veracruz in southern Mexico	11
10488718866	Cultural patterns the olmecs developed that they passed down to other Mesopotamian cultures	Mound building Art styles Urban planning Game with rubber ball Ritual sacrifices Blood letting	12
10488718867	Uruk	20ft walls, 50,000 people in 3000b.c.e, temples of rituals and food distributions crafts people and beuracrats	13
10488718868	Ziggurat	Stepped pyramid	14
10488718869	Epic of Gilgamesh	Ancient Mesopotamian poem	15
10488718870	Mohenjo-Daro	Indus River, 2000BCE, with 40,000 people	16
10488718871	Harappa	Another Indus Valley river city	17
10488718872	Characterize cultural traits of Harappa and mohenjo daro	Organized Clean indoor plumbing	18
10488718873	Where the institutions of teotihuccan similar or different than those of indus	Larger but similar Works apart from wealth Large citadel	19
10488718874	social heiarchies	Upper class, free commoners (support upper), slaves(sold, work, sacrifice)	20
10488718875	Code of Hammurabi	Collection of 282 laws; consequences according to social status	21
10488718876	Characterization of slavery in Mesopotamia egypt and Greek and Roman society	M Many slaves and they where militarized E Fewer slaves women had rights to own slaves GR slaves much more common than Indian and Chinese culture	22
10488718877	Jobs and social roles of women in ancient societies	Jobs Raising kids slaves and concubines Social roles Mother,wife,controlled sexuality	23
10488718878	Ishtar	Goddess in Mesopotamia (not replaced by male god)	24
10488718879	Hatashepsut	Egyptian queen depicted with beard	25
10488718880	Consensual and coercive aspects of ancient societies	Consensual aspects Kings gave gifts Coercive aspects Marriage, hemorabi, sacrifices	26
10488718881	scribe	a person who writes things down	27
10488718882	Summarize chart	Sumer- cuneiform, Records of economic transactions, first written language Egypt-hieroglyphs, every day use Andes-Kiku, accounting maybe used to express words, no written language Indus-pictures representing sounds in words, marking merchandise, undecifierd China-Oracle bones script, government or predicting future, where we get contemporary Chinese characters Olmec-signs that represents sounds, recorded battles, shamans, rulers, calendars were highly accurate	28
10488718883	Qin Shihuangdi	1st emporer of china( controlled writing and readers) killed scholars	29
10488718884	17of these huge heads have been found in Mexico what was their purpose	To represent royal rulers	30
10488718885	Purpose of Tikal temples	To commemorate the jaguar	31