AP World History Flashcards

10453829522	Pharoh	An Egyptian monarch	0
10453830288	artifact	an object made by human hands	1
10453831384	Oracle Bones	Animal bones or shells used by the Chinese priests to receive messages from the God.	2
10453833913	Budkisattues	Buddhist holy men who accumulated spiritual merits during their lifetime; Buddhists prayed to them in order to receive some of their holiness.	3
10453835728	Silk road	Caravan routes and sea lanes between China and the middle East	4
10453837061	Analects	Collection of teachings and sayings made by Confucius	5
10453838429	Jari	Complicated system of subcastes in the Hindu caste system	6
10453840399	Steppe	Dry grassland	7
10453845009	Mystery of Religon	During the Hellenistic age, religions that promised their faithful followers eternity a state of bliss	8
10453845835	Yahweh	God of the monotheistic religion of Judaism that influenced later religions of Christianity and Islam	9
10453849206	Aristotle	Greek philosopher who rejected the theory of forms and ideas, he believed that people could depend on their senses and reason to answer the mysteries of the world	10
10453852168	Yin and Yang	In ancient Chinese belief, the opposing forces that bring balance to nature and life	11
10453853871	Mirvane	In Buddhism, a state of perfect peace that is goal of reincarnation	12
10453855287	Filiel Piety	In China, respect for one's parents and other elders	13
10453855876	Moksla	In Hindu belief, the spirit's liberation from the cycle of reincarnation	14
10453856919	Karma	In the Hindu tradition, the good or evil deed done by a person	15
10453858533	Latifndia	Large landholdings in the Roman Empire	16
10453859211	Alexander the Great	Macedonian king who led an army Eastward an conquered land from Greece to India. He was known as a brilliant military leader and his death marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Era	17
10453866696	Vedas	"Wisdom," early collections of prayers and humans that provide information about the Indo-European Aryans who migrated to India around 1500 B.C.E	18
10453869257	Theocray	A government ruled by God or by church leaders	19
10453869903	Aristocrat	a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility	20
10453871695	Artisan	a craftsman	21
10453872448	Civilization	a cultural group with advanced cities, complex institutions, skilled workers, advanced technology and a system of recordkeeping	22
10453877159	Edict of Muvan	A document that made Christianity one of the religions allowed in the Roman Empire	23
10453879375	Polis	A greek city-state	24
10453881401	Indo-Europeans	A group of semi-nomadic people who, around 2000 BCE began to migrate from central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East	25
10453884749	Brahmin	a member of the social class of priests in Aryan society	26
10453888049	Quetzalcaah	A mesomaerica legend of a God who would someday return to rule his people in peace	27
10453889978	Huns	A nomadic group, believed to be from Central Asia, who invaded into Europe near the end of Rome	28
10453890801	Democracy	a political system in which the people rule	29
10453892140	Monsoon	a seasonal wind	30
10453892141	Dysanty	a series of rulers from the same family	31
10453894978	hieroglyphic	A system of picture writing used in Egypt	32
10453896411	cuneiform	a system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which a wedge-shaped stylus was sued to press symbols into classy	33
10453898953	forgoing	a term for hunting and gathering	34
10453901173	Covenant	agreement; in the Judeo-Christian heritage, an agreement between God and humankind	35
10453903968	Slash-n-burn	an agricultural method in which farmers clear fields by cutting and burning trees, then use the ashes as fertilizer	36
10453910115	Pope	Head of the Roman Catholic Church	37
10453911488	Varna	The Hindu word for caste	38
10453913009	independent invention	The idea that ancient civilizations were able to achieve characteristics of civilization without contact with others	39
10453929391	Neolithic Revolution	The introduction of agriculture, domestication of animals, and a more sedentary life during the Neolithic Age	40
10453932950	Climate	the pattern of temperature and precipitation typical of an area over a long period of time	41
10453944879	Ten Commandments	The most popular Hellenistic philosophy; it involved strict discipline and an emphasis on helping others	42
10453953179	Phara	The New Stone Age that was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture	43
10453955172	New Testament	The portion of the Christian Bible that contains the Gospels that relate the account of the life of Jesus; letters from the followers of Jesus to the early Christian churches and the Book of Revelation, a prophetic text	44
10453963605	Dharma	The position in the Hindu caste system that was determined by one's birth	45
10453964891	Pasteralism	The practice of herding	46
10453966371	Messiah	The religious term for "any expected deliverer"	47
10453968402	Pax Romuna	The Roman Peace; the period of prosperity and stability throughout the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E.	48
10453970270	untouchable	The social division in Hindu society that fell in rank below the caste system; it was occupied by those who carried out undesirable occupations such as undertaking, butchering, and waste collection	49
10453975591	agriculture	The transition from foraging to the cultivation of food occurring about 8000-2000 BC; also known as the Neolithic revolution	50
10453977025	Cultural diffusion	The transmission of ideas and products form one culture to another	51
10453978857	ziggurt	Mesopotamian Temples	52
10453982044	disciples	One of the 12 followers of Christ, or any of the professed followers of Christ in his lifetime	53
10453984849	Zorastumiun	Persian religion based on the teaching of the 6th century BCE prophet Zarathustra; its emphasis on the duality of good an evil and on the role individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religions	54
10453987850	Patriarch-ad	Pertaining to a social system in which the father is the head of the family	55
10453988515	Reincarnation	Rebirth; a belief of both Buddhism and Hinduism	56
10453989851	Twelve Tables	Referring to a social system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother	57
10453990846	Mardate of Herum	the codification of Roman law during the republic	58
10453992895	right of kings	The "will of the gods" that granted a ruler the right to rule	59
10453995245	heliocentric	the belief held by many before the Scientific Revolution that the earth is the center of the universe	60
10453997973	Ploytheistic	The belief in many gods	61
10453999145	Monotheistic	The belief in one god	62
10454000624	reincarnation	The belief that spirits inhabit the features of nature	63
10454001214	Hsiang-no	The Central Nomadic people who invaded into China in the ancient world	64
10454002176	Satu	The custom among the higher castes of Hinduism of a widow throwing herself on the burning funeral pyre of her husband	65
10454004375	Specialization of Labor	The division of labor that aids the development of skills in a particular type of work	66
10454004915	Hellensitc age	The era in which Greek culture blended with Persian an other Eastern influences and spread throughout the former empire of Alexander the Great	67
10454010798	Diaspora	the exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland	68
10454012429	Torah	the first five books of the Jewish scripture	69