AP World history chapters 1-3 Flashcards

7522684175	Norte Chico/Caral		0
7522684176	Indus Valley civilization	A Bronze Age civilization mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia	1
7522697250	Olmec civilization	Pre-classical meso-america from 1200-400 BCE and is generally considered the forerunner of all subsequent mess-american cultures such as the Myans and Aztecs	2
7522720033	Uruk	An ancient city of Sumer situated in the east of the present bed of the Euphrates river	3
7522728105	Epic of Gilgamesh	A written piece from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest forms of literature	4
7522744715	Harappa	An archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan	5
7522748843	Mohenjo-Daro	An archaeological site in Sindh, Pakistan built around 2500 BCE	6
7522762060	Rise of the state/Empire	A central government that includes people of all different regions, cultures, and languages	7
7522771701	Ancient Egypt	Civilization of northeast Africa concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile river	8
7522776380	Sumer	The first Urban civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia	9
7522778689	Paneb	A villian, someone who stole, a criminal	10
7522785575	Nubia	A region along the Nile river encompassing the areas between what is today central Sudan and southern Egypt	11
7522796674	Persian Empire	Cryus, Darius, and Xerxes	12
7522796675	Athenian Democracy	Women not included, male and land owners could vote, direct democracy	13
7532333425	Battle of Salamis	480 BC, second assult on Greece, naval battle, Perisans loose	14
7532333426	Dark ages	1,500-800 BC, econmic collapse	15
7522804726	Centeral Asia/ Oxus civilization		16
7522816883	Greco-Persian Wars	Series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and Greek city-states that started and ended in 449 BC	17
7522816884	Alexander the Great	A- Conqures Persia B- Spreads greek culture- hellenism C- Names 26 cities Alexandria	18
7522819559	Hellenistic Era	The time between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of the Roman domination, spreads great culture	19
7522819560	Augustus	Founder of the Roman Principate and the first Roman emperor from 27 BC-14 AD	20
7522819561	Pax Romana	Long period of relative peacefulness	21
7522825020	Qin Shihuangdi	The founder of the Qin Dynasty and the first emperor of unified China	22
7522833373	Han Dynasty		23
7522833374	Trung Trac	Leader of the first Vietnamese independent movement	24
7522837297	Kushan Empire	Syncretic empire, formed by Yuezhi in the bacterial territories, first century	25
7522839854	Mauryan Empire	A geographically extensive Iron Age historical power founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated ancient India between c. 322 and 187 BCE.	26
7532333427	Mycenaean civilization	2,000 BCE, mainland Greece, warlike- desifer their language	27
7532333428	Minoan civilization	2,000 BCE, Crete, large city, Knossos, peaceful	28
7522839855	Ashoka	Indian emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty who ruled all of the India subcontinent from 268-232 BCE	29
7522843787	Iliad and the Odyssey		30
7522843788	Shang Dynasty	1750-1027 BC, the first major Chinese empire centered around the Yellow and Yangze rivers	31
7522843789	Hitties	The first major military culture that developed iron weapons and conquered Anatolia	32
7522847290	Neo-Assyrian Empire	911-612 BC, the largest state empire in Anatolia that also constructed the first known library of Ashurbinapol	33
7522847291	Phoenician Empire	Immerse sea-going empire which established colonies around the Mediterranean, also developed our 26 letter alphabet	34
7522849937	Diaspora		35
7522852545	Library at Ashurbinapol		36
7536565644	Persepolis	A- Capital of the Persian empire B- Alexander the Great conquered this city	37
7536593659	Rosetta Stone	A- Hieroglyphs, coptic, and greek B- Français Champollion	38
7536620683	Egyptian burial portrait	A- Found in the pyramid of manure B- Shows a positive view of the afterlife	39
7536628893	Egyptian burial statue	A- Pharaoh and his wife in the burial chamber B- First culture that created statues of women	40
7536639594	The great pyramids of Giza	2,500 BC 40-50 years to build A- Tombs for Pharaohs B- Biggest structures in the world until the Eiffel tower	41
7536657324	The Sphinx	2,500 BC 65 feet tall, 250 long A- Pharaoh and a lion B- Symbolic protector of the tomb	42
7536672037	Death mask of King Tut	A- The best preserved object from ancient Egypt B- The curse of the mummy	43
7536691977	Greek theater at Epidauris	350 BC A- Seats about 25,000 people B- Acustically perfect	44
7536703877	The Parthenon	450 BC A- Temple to the goddess of wisdom B- Entasis- visually beautiful	45
7536721472	Greek discabolas (disk player)	500 BC A- More anatomically correct B- Admired nudity	46