AP World History Unit 1 vocabulary Flashcards

7758119723	Akkadian Empire	the world's first empire	0
7758119724	Amon-Re	The god of the sun	1
7758119725	amulet	charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect against evil, bad luck	2
7758119726	The Analects	Written collection of Confucius ideas	3
7758119727	Aryans	immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC	4
7758119728	Assyrians	Semitic-speaking people who exploited the use of iron weapons to establish an empire	5
7758119729	Babylonians	Famous for the king Hammurabi	6
7758119730	Book of the Dead	scrolls that served as a guide for the afterlife in ancient Egypt	7
7758119731	Book of Songs	One of the only remaining books from the Zhou dynasty	8
7758119732	Cataracts	Fast moving and rocky area of water	9
7758119733	Chavín	What may have been a religious cult that was in the Andes	10
7758119734	city-state	a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.	11
7758119735	Civilization	A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes	12
7758119736	Confucianism	a Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior	13
7758119737	cosmopolitan	Worldly or sophisticated	14
7758119738	Cultural Diffusion	The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another	15
7758119739	cultural hearths	the geographic origins or sources of innovations, ideas, or ideologies	16
7758119740	Cuneiform	A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.	17
7758119741	Dravidian	A language believed to be spoken in the Indus Valley	18
7758119742	Dynasty	a series of rulers from the same family	19
7758119743	Dynastic Cycle	the pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties	20
7758119744	Epic of Gilgamesh	An epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works of literary writing.	21
7758119745	Fertile Crescent	the crescent-shaped area of arable land, that is considered the cradle of civilization	22
7758119746	Hammurabi	Babylonian King	23
7758119747	Hammurabi's Code	A collection of 282 laws; that unified the regions city states under one code of laws.	24
7758119748	Harappa	a large ancient city of the Indus civilization, created in present-day Pakistan	25
7758119749	Hittites	group of people who lived in modern-day Turkey and northern Syria; and smelted iron in large quantities	26
7758119750	Horus	Son of Osiris and Isis; represented the pharaohs	27
7758119751	Hyksos	nomadic people from Asia who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between 1650 and 1550 B.C	28
7758119752	Isis	Egyptian goddess of fertility	29
7758119753	labor systems	system of labor in which people do specialized jobs	30
7758119754	Late Bronze Age	1600-1200 B.C.; also called the Mycenaean Age.	31
7758119755	law code	written set of laws	32
7758119756	Loess	yellow-brown soil	33
7758119757	Ma'at	Divinely controlled order of the universe	34
7758119758	Mandate of Heaven	in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority	35
7758119759	Matrilineal	of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line	36
7758119760	Menes	An Egyptian leader who united both upper and lower Egypt into one kingdom	37
7758119761	Mesopotamia	Land between two rivers	38
7758119762	Minoans	earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.E	39
7758119763	Mohenjo-Daro	A major city and popular dig site for the Indus Valley	40
7758119764	Monsoon rains	What the Indus people depended on for water to survive	41
7758119765	Mycenaeans	A war-like people on the mainland of Greece who conquered the Minoans.	42
7758119766	Olmec	A civilization in mesoamerica that invented the calander	43
7758119767	oracle bones	animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future and communicate with ancestors	44
7758119768	Papyrus	Egyptian paper	45
7758119769	Patriarch	Male head of the family	46
7758119770	Pharaoh	A ruler of ancient Egypt	47
7758119771	Pictograph	A picture or drawing representing words or ideas	48
7758119772	Rosetta Stone	An ancient Egyptian stone that provided a key to decipher hieroglyphics	49
7758119773	Semitic	A language that was a precursor to Hebrew and Arabic	50
7758119774	Shaman	an ancient doctor, healer, or priest, they were called upon for religious ceremonies	51
7758119775	Shang Dynasty	The Chinese dynasty that ruled the area around the Huang He from 1700 to 1122 B.C.E.; the first Chinese dynasty; had Bronze weapons	52
7758119776	Shi	Men of service; lower-ranking civil and military officials in the Zhou period.	53
7758119777	social mobility	the ability to move in social class	54
7758119778	Sumerians	the creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization	55
7758119779	systems failure	a breakdown of the political, social, and economic systems supporting a civilization	56
7758119780	Theocracy	A government controlled by religious leaders	57
7758119781	Tribute	Money paid for protection	58
7758119782	Vassals	people who held land under the protection of feudal lords to whom they vowed loyalty	59
7758119783	Xia Dynasty	Legendary dynasty	60
7758119784	Zhou Dynasty	the longest lasting Chinese dynasty, during which the use of iron was introduced.	61
7758119785	Ziggurats	temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped	62