AP World History Chapter 6: Commonalities and Variations Flashcards

7935455279	Piye	Nubian leader who marched north into Egypt and ruled there for a time	0
7935458011	Meroe	leading city of Nubian civilization	1
7935460890	Coptic Christianity	Christianity that was started by St. Mark that continues to thrive in Northeastern Africa	2
7935461880	Apedemek	Nubian lion-headed god of war	3
7935465023	Axum	city/empire in Ethiopia that was known for obelisks	4
7935466145	Adulis	Axum's port city that was located on the Red Sea	5
7935468775	teff	grain crop that was unique to Axum's civilization	6
7935470426	obelisk	a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top	7
7935471955	King Ezana	Axumite king who adopted Coptic Christianity	8
7935473327	Jenne-jenno	largest city/civilization in Niger River Valley that was a collection of small cities around a large town center	9
7935475230	griots	storytellers from the Niger River Valley	10
7935481566	Olmec Civilization	inspiration for all other Mesoamerican civilizations	11
7935484089	Maya	civilization in Mexico and Guatemala that was made up of many warring states	12
7935485272	El Mirador	city state known for producing "Great Pyramid"	13
7935497536	Tikal	city-state known for the Pyramid of the Jaguar	14
7935499723	Chichen Itza	city-state that has many recognizable pyramids	15
7935500881	Teotihuacan	City of the Gods that is located near Mexico City; planned cities/two pyramids to start and end streets	16
7935504855	Julio Tello	Peruvian archaeologist who discovered Chavin	17
7935505812	The Old Temple	temple in Chavin that contained an oracle and a circular plaza with relief sculpture	18
7935507672	El Lanzon	14 foot stone that was sunken into the ground that is believed to link Earth with heaven	19
7935509263	mescaline	hallucinogenic drug that was used by priests of Chavin to get in touch with the gods; from a San Pedro cactus	20
7935512393	Moche	civilization in Northern Peru that was impacted by 13 rivers; known for pottery and warfare; great road system that was basis for Incan road system	21
7935516340	Lords of Sipan	tomb found in Peru that contained people and dogs; also had fanged god; layers and layers of clothing and jewelry were on top of the main figure in the tomb	22
7935522454	Wari	walled city north of Lake Titicaca that was known for the domestication of potatoes and the use of flowerbeds	23
7935525567	Tiwanaku	12,500 foot high city that was known for making stone walls without mortar and developing raised-field agriculture	24
7935529015	raised-field agriculture	digging parallel ditches filled with water; crops are planted in the grass between ditches, and fish are raised in the water	25
7935531883	pueblo	small-scale village-like areas that were made of adobe	26
7935532736	kiva	ceremonial chamber of a pueblo	27
7935534090	Chaco Canyon	mother house of Pueblo culture in New Mexico	28
7935535860	Acoma	oldest place that continues to have inhabitants	29
7935538932	Kachina Dolls	Hopi dolls that represent the godsq	30
7935539748	Hopewell Culture	Ohioan culture known for making burial mounds and working with mica	31
7935541906	Cahokia	has large mounds that once were the location of cities	32
7935544821	Natchez	only Mississippian culture that survived into the era of colonization	33
7935547001	Great Suns	priests of Natchez culture that got their authority threw their mothers	34
7935549772	Joseph Smith	founder of Mormonism who believed that the mounds were built by the lost white people and that those people were visited by Jesus	35
7935554917	forest specialists	group of Bantu who provided exotic products from Central African rainforests	36
7935557274	Zimbabwe	example of a Bantu kingdom	37
7935558675	animism	the belief that inanimate objects, such as trees, rocks, and rivers, posses souls	38
7935559168	diviners	ritual practitioners who specialize in the art of divination	39
7935561021	Sandeleur Dynasty	ruled by Pohnpei; had a capital city that was made of coral and on the water	40
7935562038	tatau	Pacific word for tattoo	41
7935564360	mana	religious power or energy that is concentrated in individuals or objects	42
7935564972	tapu	practices designed to protect the holiness of the priests/cheifs in the Pacific	43
7935566130	lapita	pottery style of Oceania	44
7935567208	Yap	island that gave offerings to other islands in exchange for tribute from those islands	45
7935568902	Kon-Tiki	ship built by Thor Heyerdahl to explore the voyages of Oceanian peoples	46