AP World History Period 1 Vocab Flashcards

10591904088	Tigris and Euphrates	Two rivers that flow from Iraq to Turkey	0
10591904089	Mesopotamia	The civilization the settled in the Tigris and Euphrates	1
10591906464	Fertile Crescent	The area of the Tigris and Euphrates, but also on the Mediterranean coast	2
10591906465	Nile River	Flows from inner Africa to the Mediterranean sea	3
10591908522	Indus River Valley	River valley in north west India	4
10591910579	Huang He	One of China's Major Rivers depositing hello loess	5
10591927356	Artifacts	An object made by humans in the past	6
10591927357	Paleolithic Period	The period of stone tools and weapons.	7
10591929709	Neolithic Revolution	political and social developments: agriculture, pastoralism, specialization of labor, towns and cities, government, religion, and technological innovation	8
10591929710	Monotheism	Believing in one god	9
10591931944	Bronze Age	The use of the metal bronze from 3300 BCE to 2300 BCE	10
10591931945	Polytheism	Believing in more than one god	11
10591933582	Ziggurats	Temples and altar in pyramids.	12
10591933583	Hebrews/Israelites	Settlers of Canaan	13
10591934775	Abraham	Left Mesopotamia to settle in Canaan, Father of the Abrahamic religions.	14
10591934776	Moses	Led the Israelites out of enslavement from the Egyptians back to Canaan	15
10591936256	Ten Commandments	Code of conduct for christians	16
10591936257	Theocrats	Held religious and political Influence	17
10591938329	Aryans	Nomadic pastoral people that came to the Indus River Valley to settle	18
10591938330	Vedas and Vedic Age	The coalition of Dravidian and Aryan Beliefs	19
10591939577	Brahmin	Aryan Priests	20
10591939578	Dharma	Karma and fate in your next reincarnation	21
10591941689	Golden Age	Peace, prosperity, and innovation in a society for a time.	22
10591941690	Jericho	Built on the Jordan River, founded 9000 BCE, first evident human settlement.	23
10591942990	Catal Huyuk	Built on a now dried river, founded 7500 BCE	24
10591942991	Sumer	The civilization created by Sumer with many cities and a complex government	25
10591944434	Sumerians	A nomadic pastoralist group than migrated to the already civilized Mesopotamia.	26
10591944435	Uruk	The largest city of Sumer	27
10591947481	City-states	Cities with in a civilization with independent governments	28
10591947482	Babylonians	The empire that built a capital city in Mesopotamia.	29
10591949455	Empire	a culturally diverse large territory	30
10591949456	Hittites	A powerful Enemy of the Egyptians using iron tools	31
10591950867	Kush	A kingdom that was trade heavy, and came after Nubia, but before Axum.	32
10591950868	Harappa	An Advanced city of the Indus River Valley	33
10591955975	Aboriginals	Australia's indigenous people	34
10591955976	Hammurabi	The most powerful king of the Babylonians	35
10591957647	King Menes	United upper and lower Egypt	36
10591957648	Shang Dynasty	After the Xia Dynasty, started by Tang, ruled for about 600 years.	37
10591959841	Mandate of Heaven	A rulers power was made by the gods	38
10591959842	Zhou Dynasty	General WU overthrew the Shang king starting this dynasty, lasted about 900 years.	39
10591961561	Specialization of labor	Allowing focus on a limited job	40
10591961562	Copper	First metal used for tools	41
10591962859	Bronze	An alloy of tin and copper for a strong metal	42
10591962860	hunter-forager	scavenged for seeds, nuts, fruits, edible roots, and hunted animals	43
10591964768	Agriculture	the growing of crops	44
10591964769	Surplus	more than needed	45
10591966888	Division of labor	Working on other things besides food.	46
10591966889	Kinship group	families that are related that moved in a group to find food	47
10591968955	Patriarchal	Societies led by men.	48
10591968956	Artisans	Craftsman	49
10591970040	Merchants	People that buy and sell goods	50
10591970041	Social stratification	people had wealth in the form of objects/property	51
10591977693	priests	Used to conduct religious ceremonies	52