AP World History - Units I and II Map work - Flashcards
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| 7617476263 | Yellow River Civilization | Located on Hueng He River about 4000 BCE in what is today modern China |  | 0 |
| 7617870743 | eastern Africa | location where migration of homo sapiens began 100,000 years ago | 1 | |
| 7617882603 | Fertile Crescent | home to 1st civilization; based around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; located in the Middle East; 1st civilization known as Mesopotamia, prominent city-sate was Sumer |  | 2 |
| 7617941153 | The San | hunter forager group from Paleolithic era that still live in their original region today | 3 | |
| 7617966199 | Venus Figurines | created in the paleolithic era about 25,000 years ago and found in modern day Austria |  | 4 |
| 7617992058 | Statues of Ain Ghazal | found in an ancient agricultural settlement in modern day Jordan dating back to 7200-5000 BCE |  | 5 |
| 7618023656 | Bantu people | Nomadic farmers who used slash-burn farming *migrated to find "farmland" -anyone who spoke bantu; family of languages spoken in central Africa |  | 6 |
| 7618060730 | Nile River Civilization | 1st wave civilization that developed in modern day Egypt |  | 7 |
| 7618105933 | Norte Chico | First wave civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization) that included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now north-central coastal Peru | 8 | |
| 7618138507 | Indus Valley Civilization | The Indus Valley Civilization or Harappan Civilization was a Bronze Age (c. 3300-c. 1700 BCE) civilization mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India | 9 | |
| 7618168292 | Olmec Civilization | 1st wave civilization in Mesoamerica from c. 1200 BCE to c. 400 BCE and is considered the forerunner of all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures such as the Maya and Aztecs. | 10 | |
| 7618194186 | Colossal Head | Seventeen were found at four sites along the Gulf Coast of Mexico, within the heartland of the Olmec civilization. |  | 11 |
| 7618248678 | Nubia | a region located on the Nile river south of Egypt; ancient kingdom also called Kush; located in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt. |  | 12 |
| 7618277953 | Ancient Greece | the cradle of Western Civilization and birthplace of Democracy; Athens and Sparta are two of the most well know city-states |  | 13 |
| 7618302827 | Persian Empire | Great empire around 500 BC that stretched from Asia Minor to Egypt to Afghanistan. Modern day Iran |  | 14 |
| 7618358189 | Roman Empire | stretched from modern day Britain to modern day Iran. Very powerful; Roman conquest spread all around the Mediterranean Sea 27 BCE-476 CE |  | 15 |
| 7618373380 | Classical China | 2nd wave Civilization 1. Zhou Dynasty 2. Qin Dynasty 3. Han Dynasty | 16 | |
| 7618389364 | Mauryan Empire | 2nd wave civilization, 1st major empire ( c. 326-184 B.C.E.) of south Asia that encompassed most of India. Prominent leader was Ashoka |  | 17 |
| 7618420689 | Gupta Empire | An empire that flourished in south Asia, modern day India from about 320 to 550 C.E. second empire in India, founded by Chandra Gupta | 18 |