AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards

10597177352	big geography	history of the world with all its changing parts	0
10597190980	Paleolithic Era	called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago)	1
10597204094	Hunter forager/ bands	groups of people that hunt, fish, harvest their food. They work in small groups of people.	2
10597225595	Neolithic Revolution	(10,000 - 8,000 BCE) The development of agriculture and the domestication of animals as a food source. This led to the development of permanent settlements and the start of civilization.	3
10597228898	Early Agricultural Societies	any society whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland (catual hiyuk)	4
10597233956	Ice Age	any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface	5
10597236920	Settled Agriculture	LIVING IN ONE PLACE AND RAISING FOOD.	6
10597246399	irrigation systems	replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops	7
10597248830	water control systems	a structure in a water management system that conveys water, controls the direction or rate of flow, or maintains a desired water surface elevation	8
10597256371	domesticated animals	Any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment	9
10597257353	domesticated plants	better taste,larger edible portions,more secure,higher nutrition	10
10597261867	patriarchy	A form of social organization in which males dominate females	11
10597263162	Forced Labor System	People who were always demanded to work in agricultural fields., slaves, servants,	12
10597266781	Pastoralism	A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.	13
10597272909	Sedentism	when people began living permanently in one place instead of moving around to find food	14
10597304760	permanent agricultural villages	villages that stayed in one place (never moved)	15
10597313332	Eastern Mediterranean	Mesopotamia combine to make the fertile crescent	16
10597318219	Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys	these two river valleys help form Mesopotamia	17
10597331838	Egypt in the Nile River Valley	Modern day Egypt	18
10597333940	Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in the Indus River Valley	Modern-day Pakistan/NW India	19
10597338559	Shang in the Yellow River or Huang He Valley	The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records. Ancestor worship, divination by means of oracle bones, and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of Shang culture.	20
10597340203	Olmec (Mesoamerica)	Corns, Beans, & Squash/ Giant Heads/ Glyph writing / Irrigation / No outside contact / No river / Predecessor of Aztec	21
10597342262	Chavin in Andean South America	The first major urban civilization in South America. Its capital was located high in the Andes Mountains of Peru.	22
10597343049	Andes	A large system of mountain ranges located along the Pacific coast of Central and South America	23
10597356346	Specialization of Labor	Focusing work effort on a particular product or a single task	24
10597357159	classes	In classification, the taxonomic category above order.	25
10597358631	Artisans	skilled workers who make goods by hand	26
10597360602	Warriors	people who fight in battles	27
10597361993	Elites	a select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities.	28
10597363558	urban societies	A system in which cities are the center of political, economic, and social life.	29
10597367099	First civilization	Mesopotamia	30
10597369612	agricultural surplus	The amount of food grown by a society that exceeds the demands of its population which can be used for storage or trade.	31
10597375658	Political Bureaucracies	Big tasks performed by many people	32
10597389977	religious hierarchies	an organized group of people with successive ranks or orders	33
10597423206	stratified social hierarchies	refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy	34
10597424771	long-distance trading relationships	providing goods and services to help with stain good relations (Mesopotamia and Egypt)	35
10597433355	nomadic pastoralism	people who move pastier to pastier	36
10597434924	monumental architecture	architectural constructions of a greater-than-human scale, such as pyramids, temples, and tombs	37
10597436803	Record Keeping	Maintaining accurate and complete records of all financial activities in your business. (writing)	38
10597439076	Legal Codes (Hammurabi)	a complete system of laws that Babylonians made up (to follow)	39
10597445770	Verdic Religion	the ancient religion on Aryans	40
10597451514	Hebrew Monotheism	Jewish religion that also led to modern Christianity	41
10597453483	Zoroastrianism	One of the first monotheistic religions	42