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AP World Keyterms
keyterms 28-54
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| labor divided between man and woman, hunting and gathering etc. | gender division of labor |
| the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called alloys. craft and practice of working with metals to create parts or structures. | metallurgy and metalworking |
| a region in the Middle East incorporating present-day Israel, West Bank, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq and south-eastern Turkey. | Fertile Crescent |
| Gilgamesh became a legendary protagonist in the Epic of Gilgamesh. | Gilgamesh |
| First set of defined laws within a civilization. | Hammurabi’s Law Code |
| civilization of the Lower Nile Valley, between First Cataract and mouths of the Nile Delta, from circa 3300 BC until conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC. As a civilization based on irrigation,is the quintessential example of a hydraulic empire. | Egypt |
| name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts. a collection of spells, charms, passwords, numbers and magical formulas used by the deceased in the afterlife, describing many tenets of Egyptian mythology. | Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| tombs for Egyptian kings. | pyramids |
| system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. | hieroglyphics |
| ancient civilization along the Indus River and Ghaggar-Hakra river in what is now Pakistan and western India. The Indus Valley civilization is also sometimes referred to as the Harappan Civilization | Indus Valley Civilization |
| Xia, Shang, Zhou, Warring States Period, Qin, Han | early China |
| group of peoples that occupied lands stretching from the British Isles to Gallatia. Went to war with Romans. | the Celts |
| First to work iron, and enter Iron Age. controlled central Anatolia, north-western Syria to Ugarit, and Mesopotamia to Babylon, lasted from 1680 BC to about 1180 BC. After 1180 BC, the Hittite polity disintegrated into several independent city-states. | the Hittites and iron weapons |
| indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Started cavalry warfare? | the Assyrians and cavalry warfare |
| used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). Successive states in Iran before 1935 are collectively called the Persian Empire by Western historians | The Persian Empire |
| descendants of biblical Patriarch Eber; were people who lived in the Levant, which was politically Canaan when they first arrived in the area. First monotheistic group; Yahweh. | The Hebrews and monotheism |
| enterprising maritime trading culture that spread right across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC. First form of language. | the Phoenicians and the alphabet |
| ancient kingdom of Asia Minor, first to mint coins. | the Lydians and coinage |
| region controlled exclusively by Greek, and usually having sovereignty. Ex. Crete | Greek city-states |
| form of government in which policy is decided by the preference of the majority in a decision-making process, usually elections or referendums, open to all or most citizens. | democracy |
| a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. | Persian Wars |
| began in 431 BC between the Athenian Empire (or The Delian League) and the Peloponnesian League which included Sparta and Corinth. | Peloponnesian War |
| United Ancient Greece; Hellenistic Age, conquered a large empire. | Alexander the Great |
| shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of various ethnicities, and from the political dominance of the city-state to that of larger monarchies. | Hellenism |
| legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with authorship of the major Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey | Homer |
| Greek philosopher/student. | Socrates and Plato |
| Along with Plato, he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosophers in Western thought. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, government, and biology. | Aristotle |
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