AP World History Flashcards

11054192616	Two types of early humans: ____ _______ _______ and ____________	Homo Sapiens Sapiens and Neanderthals	0
11054206560	Early humans used these to kill whales	spears	1
11054208631	Lithic	Rock	2
11054215776	Early humans were always focused on ____	food	3
11054226532	Key discovery of the earliest humans; helped with preparing food	fire	4
11054234857	Early humans lived in _____ groups (large or small)	small	5
11054242612	Name three moderate developments of early humans	1. Technology Developments 2. Artistic Ability 3. Religious Belief	6
11054255932	Most important daily task of early humans	Food gathering	7
11054265438	common thing you constantly need	staple	8
11054277735	The Neolithic Revolution was the beginning of _______	Farming	9
11054285007	Four qualities of a staple crop	1. Easy to grow 2. Easy to store 3. Nutritious 4. Filling	10
11054297947	Name a few staple crops	grains, cereal, potatoes, corn	11
11054311434	Early humans before the neolithic revolution that only focused on food	hunter-gatherers	12
11054323800	Staple crops lead an increase of ____ which leads to an increase in the __________	Food Population	13
11054332688	Name the 8 needed parts of a civilization	1. Advanced Cities 2. Organized central government 3. Complex religion 4. Job specialization 5. Social classes 6. Forms of art and architecture 7. Organized public works 8. A system of writing	14
11054369144	Nickname for Mesopotamia	The crescent land	15
11054374538	Where do nutrients come from	dead thing-animals, plants, humans	16
11054384873	River near Egyptian civilization	Nile River	17
11054389435	River near Shang China	Yellow River	18
11054392632	Nickname for Mesopotamia	The fertile crescent	19
11054399930	Rivers near Mesopotamia	Tigris and Euphrates	20
11054407440	explain supply and demand	if there is a lot of something and not a lot of need for it, the price goes down if there is a scarce amount of something and a high need for it, prices soar	21
11054429244	Three main roles of the government	1. Protection 2. Mobilize surplus of labor and resources 3. The creation of infrastructure and public works	22
11054443772	Give examples of public works	Roads/road maintenance; Irrigation systems for farming; Defensive walls/structures; Monuments, buildings, temples	23
11054465618	Why was religion created by early humans	As a way to explain natural disasters-floods, earthquakes, etc.	24
11054476457	As states grow, so does the competition for ____ and _________	1. Food 2. Resources	25
11054487574	Name 5 public works in early civilizations	1. Egyptian Pyramids 2. Sumerian step pyramid 3. Ancient Babylon 4. Ancient (Roman) Roads 5. Irrigation systems	26
11054545001	Key factor that helped in the growing of staple crops	Irrigation systems	27
11054548340	Explain Bureaucracy	HOW things get done; the system put in place to get things done	28
11054560185	President's job	enforce laws	29
11054567404	The bigger the bureaucracy, the more it _____	costs	30
11054580201	Say 1 way civilizations try to differentiate themselves from other civilizations	Through art/cultural expression	31
11054591217	Name 1 example of cultural expression in Egypt	Pyramids, sphinx, hieroglyphics	32
11054598403	Name 1 example of cultural expression in China	The great wall of China	33
11054600678	Name 1 example of cultural expression in India	Buddha statues	34
11054606957	Explain cultural diffusion	when civilization come into contact with one another, there cultures can mix; happens during war, trade, exploration, or tourism	35
11054625713	The first written language was _____	Sumerian/Sumer	36
11054638736	Who spreads religion from place to place	missionaries	37
11054666926	True or False: All humans came and evolved from thousands of humans long ago	False: All humans evolved from a small group of humans	38
11054675475	Humanity began in which continent	Africa	39
11054678867	Anatomically modern humans	Homo sapiens sapiens	40
11054699963	What allowed people to migrate to america	Beringia land bridge	41
11054708826	The first walled settlement	Jericho	42
11054712818	The planting of seeds and harvesting of crops	Agriculture	43
11054724814	First people to harvest crops, domesticate animals, and plant seeds	Natufians	44
11054746500	The three main things we'll be learning in AP World History	1. Content content content 2. Themes in history 3. Historical thinking skills	45
11054785261	Name one of the oldest recorded works of literature	The Epic of Gilgamesh	46
11054792748	Who wrote "An eye for an eye"	Hummurabi	47
11054804925	The leader of egyptian society	Pharaoh	48
11054819845	Humans came about nearly __ ________ years ago	13 billion	49
11054856485	The _______ were the first civilization to fight with iron tools	Hitties	50
11054862128	Another name for the Old Testament	Hebrew Bible	51
11054898416	Violent punished people who didn't give in to their rule	Assyrians	52
11054931295	Monotheism	belief in one God	53
11054935563	hieroglyphs	Egyptian pictorial writing	54
11054960110	Name the 5 historical themes	1. Interaction between humans and the environment 2. Development and interaction of cultures 3. State-building, expansion and conflicts 4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems 5. Development and transformation of social structures	55
11054997586	Describe Interaction between humans and the environment	Includes Demography, migration, patterns of settlement, creation of technology to overcome natural phenomenon	56
11055000508	Describe Development and interaction of cultures	Includes religions, belief systems, philosophies, ideologies, science/technology, the arts/architecture	57
11055003079	Humans came about nearly __ ________ years after the big bang	13 billion	58
11055006565	Describe Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems	Includes Agriculture/pastoral production, trade/commerce, labor systems, industrialization	59
11055006566	Describe Development and transformation of social structures	Gender roles/relations, family/kinship, racial/ethnic constructions, social/economic classes	60