AP world history chapter 6 Flashcards

14323882787	Nomad	really early people whose sole focus was to satisfy their basic needs: shelter and food	0
14323882788	Foraging societies	hunter-gatherer clans that depended on nature to supply their needs	1
14323882789	Pastoral societies	domesticated animals and cultivated plants	2
14323882790	Cuneiform	a form of writing Sumerians developed	3
14323882791	Polythesistic	worshiping more than one god (Sumerians)	4
14323882792	Ziggurat	temple (built by Sumerians)	5
14323882793	Code of Hammurabi	first ever code of laws (developed by King Hammurabi of Babylon)	6
14323882794	Pharaohs	rulers of Egypt	7
14323882795	Hieroglyphics	system of writing consisting of pictures that represented letters and words created by Egyptians	8
14323882796	Mummification	process of preserving dead bodies	9
14323882797	Pyramids	enormous tombs for afterlife	10
14323882827	River valley-	rivers that provided water and good soil, where most civilizations lived	11
14323882798	Calendar	12 month calendar that was developed by Sumerians	12
14323882799	Hinduism	what early Aryan beliefs became the basis of	13
14323882800	The Vedas and Upanishads	what the Aryans recorded their polytheistic beliefs and traditions in	14
14323882801	Brahmans	the priest class in the Aryan social structure	15
14323882802	Patriarchy	family led by the eldest male	16
14323882803	Mandate of Heaven	what the Zhou Dynasty believed in; heaven would grant the Zhou power as long of the rulers governed justly and wisely	17
14323882828	Bureaucracy, bureau-	a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives	18
14323882829	Migration-	movement of people from one place to another	19
14323882804	Zhou Dynasty	established by Wu Wang after the demolition of the Shang in 1100 BCE	20
14323882805	Neolithic Revolution (Agricultural Revolution)	8000 BCE-3000 BCE: transition period when groups of people moved from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles	21
14323882806	Bronze Age	when people figured out how to combine copper with tin to make bronze and advanced the development of tools and weapons	22
14323882807	Mesopotamia	means between the rivers (tigris and euphrates), part of Fertile Crescent	23
14323882808	Sumerian civilization	first major Mesopotamian civilization; was in the southern part of Mesopotamia	24
14323882809	Tigris and Euphrates Rivers	between them was Mesopotamia, flooded unpredictably and washed away many early settlements	25
14323882810	Babylon	city in Mesopotamia	26
14323882811	Hittites	ruled the region because they learned how to use iron in their weapons, invaded Babylon	27
14323882812	Assyrians	learned to use iron in less than a century; army was highly disciplined but cruel	28
14323882813	Nebuchadnezzar	Chaldean king that rebuilt Babylon; defeated the Assyrians with the help of the Medes	29
14323882814	Persian Empire	new civilization that took over the new Babylon	30
14323882815	Egyptian civilization	developed along the Nile River; most Egyptians lived in smaller towns	31
14323882816	King Menes	united the entire river valley	32
14323882817	Queen Hatshepsut	female pharaoh that ruled for 22 years during the New Kingdom	33
14323882818	Indus Valley	a civilization built 900 miles along the Indus River and huge mountains; not much connection outside	34
14323882819	Fertile Crescent	a land with pretty good soil in which Mesopotamia was in	35
14323882820	Khyber Pass	provided a connection to the Indus Valley	36
14323882821	Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro	major cities of the Indus Valley, home to more than 100,000 people each	37
14323882822	Aryans	nomadic tribes from north of the Caucasus Mountains; defeated Indus Valley with horses and advanced weaponry	38
14323882823	Shang China	rose in the Hwang Ho River Valley; militarily quite powerful, but limited contact with the outside	39
14323882824	Bantu migrations	(1500 BCE) farmers in the Niger and Benue River valleys in West Africa began migrating south and east, spreading their knowledge of languages, agriculture, and metallurgy; continued for 2,000 years	40
14323882825	Olmec	early civilization in what is now Mexico (1500-4000 BCE)	41
14323882826	Chavin	early civilization in the Andes (900- 200 BCE)	42