AP World History: Unit 1 Flashcards
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| 10531327252 | Agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | 0 | |
| 10531332000 | Domestication | taming of animals | 1 | |
| 10531333962 | Irrigation | A way of supplying water to an area of land | 2 | |
| 10531339421 | Paleolithic Era | the first part of the Stone Age; when people first used stone tools | 3 | |
| 10546004381 | Neolithic Revolution | A turning point in the stone age when humans began farming. | 4 | |
| 10546007197 | Surplus | An unsold quantity of a good resulting from a lack of equilibrium in a market | 5 | |
| 10546013666 | Patriarchy | A form of social organization in which males dominate females | 6 | |
| 10546016336 | Stratification | the arrangement or classification of something into different groups | 7 | |
| 10546019443 | Nomads | people who move from place to place | 8 | |
| 10546024387 | Pastoralism | the domestication of animals | 9 | |
| 10546031418 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 10 | |
| 10546039238 | Ideology | a system of social or political ideas | 11 | |
| 10546042922 | City-State | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 12 | |
| 10546045680 | Sumer | The world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which existed for over 3,000 years. | 13 | |
| 10546045681 | Babylon | the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capitol of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia | 14 | |
| 10546060094 | Ziggurat | A pyramid shaped temple tower | 15 | |
| 10546063958 | Pharaoh | A ruler of ancient Egypt | 16 | |
| 10546065479 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 17 | |
| 10546067449 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 18 | |
| 10546068641 | Hittites | An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. | 19 | |
| 10546074663 | Demographic | related to population balance | 20 | |
| 10546077832 | Code of Hammurabi | a set of laws established by Hammurabi | 21 | |
| 10546081461 | Harappa | a large ancient city of the Indus civilization, created in present-day Pakistan | 22 | |
| 10546084577 | Egalitarian | promoting equal rights for all people | 23 | |
| 10546086096 | Hierarchy | A group organized by rank | 24 | |
| 10546086990 | Cuneiform | the world's first system of writing | 25 |