AP World History : Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards

7387823367	Big Geography	Uses broad historical themes to analyze history	0
7387826009	Paleolithic Era	AKA Old Stone Age. Includes tools made from stone , cave art , etc .	1
7387830390	3. Savanna	a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees	2
7387830391	Desert	hot and dry area with little rainfall	3
7387832079	Tundra	a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region where the subsoil is permanently frozen.	4
7387839066	6. Hunting-foraging bands	small communities based on kinship that hunt and gather for food	5
7387845329	7. Neolithic Revolution	AKA New Stone Age . Used tools made from stone , starting farming and the domestication of animals began.	6
7387848074	8. Early Agricultural Societies	Societies that included the domestication of plants and animals, gender divisions where men are the farmers and women had domestic roles , etc .	7
7387848075	Ice Age	period of colder global temperatures and recurring glacial expansion capable of lasting hundreds of millions of years	8
7387853303	10. Settled Agriculture	Application of human labor and tools to a fixed plot of land for more than one growing cycle . Involves staying in one place until the soil has been exhausted	9
7387857080	11. Intensive Cultivation	system of cultivation using large amounts of labor and capital relative to land area.	10
7387859645	12. Irrigation Systems	system of supplying land with water with artificial canals, ditches, etc, to promote the growth of food crops	11
7387863252	13. 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	12
7387865783	14. Domesticated Animals	animals that have been tamed by humans for their personal use	13
7387869135	15. Domesticated Plants	changing plants to make them more useful to human beings and then purposely raising them as crops	14
7387871803	16. Patriarchy (patriarchal social organizations)	government where the father or oldest male is the head of the family	15
7387875837	17. Forced Labor Systems	people are coerced to work through the use of violence or intimidation ( slavery )	16
7387878322	Society	people living together in a ordered community	17
7387882178	19. Pastoralism (pastoral societies)	societies where raising livestock are a big part of their lives ( typically nomads)	18
7387885519	20. Permanent Agricultural Villages	villages that used agriculture heavily .	19
7387885520	21. Eastern Mediterranean	area that is east of the Mediterranean Sea	20
7387890956	22. Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys	Area between the tigris and euphrates river that had rich soil,based on farming and trade , had three major social groups , etc	21
7387892463	23. Egypt in the Nile River Valley	enriched the land with a thick layer of alluvial soil	22
7387894322	24. Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in the Indus River Valley	Arose at about 2500 BCE and ended with apparent destruction about 1500 BCE . Used fire-baked bricks for streets, sewer systems, etc .	23
7387896214	25. Shang in the Yellow River (or Huang He) Valley	the land was very fertile , peasants or slaves were main source of manual labor , gender roles , social classes , etc	24
7387898083	26. Olmec in Mesoamerica	First major civilization in Guatemala and Mexico . Ate corn, beans, and squash ,etc	25
7387898084	27. Chavin in Andean South America	was located in central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru	26
7387903024	28. Andes	longest continental mountain range in the world	27
7387903025	29. Sub-Saharan Africa	area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara	28
7387905486	30. Papua New Guinea	island nation in oceania, consisting of part of the huge island of new guinea, which it shares with Indonesia	29
7387913550	31. Afro-Eurasian Grasslands	grasslands that are located on the land masses of Africa and Eurasia	30
7387916034	32. Overgrazed	graze so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground becomes more likely to erode	31
7387918101	Classes	division of a society based on social and economic status	32
7387920768	Artisans	a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand	33
7387920769	Warriors	brave or experienced soldier or fighter	34
7387922558	Elites	small group of powerful people that control a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege or political power in a society	35
7387924559	Urban Societies	major cities characterized by modern industrial civilization with information technology	36
7387927676	First Civilizations	early civilizations needed water for drinking and for their crops, so they settled near rivers	37
7387930901	Agricultural Surplus	When there is too much of an agricultural production. It may be exported or stored for future times .	38
7387937860	41. Specialization of Labor	Distributes tasks efficiently. Workers occupy specialized roles	39
7387939888	42. Political Bureaucracies	both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group	40
7387943493	43. Religious Hierarchies	the classification of society into different groups based on religious beliefs or other faith-based considerations.	41
7387945942	44. Stratified Social Hierarchies	a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy	42
7387949577	Long-distance Trading Relationships	transport of goods over distances that exceed immediate relationships	43
7387956290	46. Nomadic Pastoralists	livestock are herded in order to find fresh pastures	44
7387953900	Hittites	one of the first civilizations to settle down in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley	45
7387960488	48. Monumental Architecture	large human-made structures of stone or earth which are used as public buildings or communal spaces	46
7387963196	49. Urban Planning		47
7387964872	50. Record Keeping	anything providing permanent evidence of or information about past events	48
7387964873	Legal Codes	the philosophical study of moral values and rules	49
7387968370	Vedic Religion	religion of the Indo-Aryans of northern India during the Vedic period . a historical predecessor of modern Hinduism, but different from it.	50
7387968371	Hebrew Monotheism	religion that believes in the existence of only one god	51
7387971790	Zoroastrianism	An Iranian religion founded by Zoroaster in 600 b.c	52