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AP World Keyterms
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Formed by 8th century by exchanging gold from the forests of west Africa for salt/dates from the Sahara or for goods from Mediterranean north Africa. Camels, were introduced tcreating better trade. By 3rd century C.E. it rose to power by taxing the salt a | Ghana |
| Cultural tradition that arose at San Lorenzo and La Venta in Mexico (1200 BCE); featured irrigated agriculture, urbanism, elaborate religion, beginnings of calendrical and writing systems. | Olmec |
| Classic culture emerging in southern Mexico and Central American contemporary with Teotihuacán; extended over broad religion; featured monumental architecture, written language, calendrical and mathematical systems, highly developed religion. | Maya |
| developed in the second millennium BCE in the central Andes and the central Pacific coast of South America. While oldest artifacts carbon date around 9750 BCE, evidence of a significant economic surplus begins around 2000 BCE. The Andean civilizations inc | Andean societies |
| The Mississippian culture was a Mound-building Native American culture that flourished in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States in the centuries leading up to European contact. The Mississippian way of life began to develop around 900 A. | Mississippian culture |
| Ancestral Puebloans were a prehistoric Native American civilization centered around the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest United States. | Anasazi |
| spread through cultures vs. independent inventing | cultural diffusion versus independent |
| system of government with "rule by the best" | aristocracy |
| Senate and ……[peasant voting body] | parliamentary bodies |
| Political regime where most political power effectively rests with a small segment of society (typically the most powerful, whether by wealth, military strength, ruthlessness, or political influence). | oligarchy |
| Republic - state or country that is led by people who do not base their political power on any principle beyond the control of the people living in that state or country. Democracy - form of government in which policy is decided by the preference of the m | republics/democracies |
| form of government in which a religion or faith plays a dominant role. | theocracy |
| were not property themselves and could not be sold apart from the land which they worked. Serfdom is the forced labour of serfs, on the fields of the privileged land owners, in return for protection and the right to work on their leased fields. | slavery vs. serfdom |
| state of widespread conflict between states, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of violent, physical force between combatants or upon civilians. | war |
| sequence of pathways and stopping places used for the commercial transport of cargo. | trade routes |
| most likely began from the islands of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, spreading east, south, and north, covering millions of square miles of ocean sparsely dotted with islands.Polynesians migrated throughout the Pacific in sailing canoes, ultimately forming a tria | Polynesian migrations |
| Increase in migrations from Eurasia. | Eurasia’s great age of migrations |
| belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or divinities. | polytheism |
| one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions. Worship of Wisdom | Zoroastrianism |
| list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Bible, was spoken by the god YHWH to Moses on Mount Sinai and engraved on two stone tablets. | the Ten Commandments |
| refers to the first section of the Tanakh–the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, or the Five Books of Moses, but can also be used in the general sense to also include both the Written and Oral Law. | the Torah |
| of a series of disputations that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages, a group of rabbis were called upon to defend the Talmud. The attacks against Judaism was based on a long held idea that rabbis had "distorted" the Bible through their interpreta | the Talmud |
| "Yahweh", God's name. | YHWH |
| the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son; "Judaism, Christian | Abraham |
| Passover to celebrate the day the Jews were led out of Egypt and into their land by Moses. | Moses and the Exodus from Egypt |
| David - Greatest king of jews. Solomon - wisest king on earth; fell to evilness, turned away from his God. | David and Solomon |
| to the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the world. The notion of diaspora is commonly accepted to have begun with the Babylonian Captivity in 597 BCE. | Jewish Diaspora |
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