AP Terms Flashcards

10511969959	Hammurabi's Code	Sophisticated law code associated with the Babylonian king Hammurabi	0
10511975965	Hanging Gardens of Babylon		1
10511975966	Hieroglyphics	Ancient Egyptian written language	2
10511978110	hunter-gatherer	a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food.	3
10511979905	iron technology	following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron spreading technology of war, farming, and construction	4
10511979906	irrigation	The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.	5
10511983192	Mandate of Heaven	Chinese belief that the emperors ruled through the mandate, or approval, of heaven contingent on their ability to look after the welfare of the population.	6
10511985743	Metallurgy	the science of working with metals	7
10511985744	Monotheism	Belief in one god, a rare concept in the ancient world	8
10511990574	monumental architecture	Large structures, such as pyramids, temples, public spaces, and large statues, that generally appear wherever powerful leaders emerge; a feature of all agrarian civilizations.	9
10511990575	Mummification	A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying	10
10511992741	Neolithic Revolution	The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution.	11
10511995077	nomadic	wandering, moving about from place to place	12
10511995078	oracle bones	Chinese Shang dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.E.) means of foretelling the future.	13
10511995079	paleolithic	(Old Stone Age) a long period of human development before the development of agriculture	14
10511997247	pastoral nomads	groups of herders who move with their animals from place to place in search of pasture and water	15
10511997248	pastoralism	A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.	16
10511997249	patriarchy	A form of social organization in which males dominate females	17
10512001307	Period of the Warring States	Last centuries of the Zhou Dynasty (403-221 BCE) when wars divided the region until the establishment of the Qin Dynasty ended the disunity.	18