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Summer Vocabulary
AP World History Prep
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civilization | Life that is agricultural and settled. There are cities, architecture, specialzation, trade, sciences, art, and a recording system. |
| Culture | Way of life for a set group of people. Includes languages, belifs, clothing, houses, food. |
| History | The advancement, development, transportation of events and practices of culture. |
| Stone Age | 1st reconizable cultural activity. Approx. 2 million years ago. Tools made of stone,wood,bone,and skin. |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age. Stone tools used by humans. |
| Neolithic | Also known as New Stone Age. Orgins of agriculture. |
| Foragers | People who hunted and gathered. |
| Agricultural Revolution | A change in which agriculture became a form of getting food and domestication of animals occurred. |
| Holocene | A new era after the last ice age where civilizations begin developing, when temperatures started warming. |
| Megalith | Big stones. Sometimes related to religous belifs. |
| Babylon | In the 2nd&1st millennia (BCE), Babylon was most important city in Southern Mesopotamia. |
| Sumerians | Were people who lived in Southern Mesopotamia. Began written records. |
| Semitic | Group of languages that were spoken in Northern&Western Africa. Includes Hebrew,Aramic,Phoencion,&Arabic. |
| City-State | An urban area where it is self-governing, with the areas of agriculture it controlled. |
| Hammurabi | Ruler of Babylon. Made up law codes which were written on stone. |
| Scribe | Male who had tasks of reading and writing for the temple. |
| Ziggurat | Mesopotamian tower that was made of mud-bricks and was a pyramid shape. |
| Amulet | Charms of small size which were meant to protect the owner from evil. |
| Cuneiform | Method of writing which was wedges and strokes. It had hundreds of symbols. |
| Pharaoh | Pharaoh mmeans "palace".The New Kingdom called the king a pharaoh. The pharaoh was the king of Egypt. |
| Memphis | A city that was the capitol during the Old Kingdom. It was in the north. |
| Thebes | City in the south of Egypt that was capital during the Middle and New Kingdom periods. |
| Hieroglyphics | Was the writing system of Anicent Egypt. Pictures for vowels, words, & syllables. |
| Papyrus | Object Egyptians wrote on. Made of stems of papyrus reeds. |
| Mummy | Preserving of a rulers body when they died, when the spirit goes to the afterlife. |
| Harappa | A city from the Indus Valley civilization. |
| Mohenjo-Daro | A city that was in the Indus Valley Civilization. |
| Loess | Dust that was a yellow/brown color. Winds deposit this dust. |
| Shang | A period of Chinese history from 1750-1027 BCE. |
| Divination | Trying to foretell the future. The Shang tried this to find out the gods will. |
| Zhou | A period in Chinese history from 1027-221 BCE. |
| Mandate of Heaven | The rule of the Zhou monarch was called the Mandate of Heaven. |
| Legalism | Political idea that the nature of humans is evil and that there needs to be strict laws. |
| Confucius | Person who became an influence in Chinese thought. Believed in public service & duty. |
| Daoism | Belief that people should follow a path and avoid "useless" struggles. Belief the world has no meaning. |
| Yin Yang | Yin:Male principles-sun,bright,active Yang:Female principles-moon,refelective,shaded |
| Kush | Name Egyptians gave to kingdom whose capital was located at a place called Kerma. |
| Meroe | Kingdom that was the center for Egyptian headquarters after it didn't have authority in Nubia anymore. |
| Olmec | Mesomerican civilization that was most infilencial. From 1200-400 BCE. |
| Chavin | Successful South American civilization from 900 to 250 BCE. |
| Llama | An animal used in South America to transport goods. |
| Iron Age | Time in history when irom was used for tools and weapons instead of bronze. |
| Hitties | Were the most powerful group of people in the heart of Mesopotamia. |
| Hatshepsut | She was a woman that held the throne as pharoah in New Kingdom Egypt. |
| Akhenaten | Ruler of Egypt who went to spread the belif in Aten. |
| Ramesses II | Was a ruler of Egypt for 66 years. Sometimes called Ramesses the Great. |
| Mycenae | A civilization in southern Greece. |
| Minoan | A civilization on the island of Crete in Greece. |
| Shaft Graves | A circle of graves at the bottom of rectangular shafts. |
| Linear B | Writing method of Mycenaeans. Used pictures for syllables and an early form of Greek. |
| Neo-Assyrian Empire | An empire that was the first to rule forgen lands and diverse people. |
| Mass Deportation | Taking people by force out of their community and moving them somewhere else. |
| Library of Ashurbanipal | The palace of Ashurbanipal had a library that contained more than 25,000 tablets or fragments |
| Israel | A country in the Middle East. |
| Hebrew Bible | Preserves the history of Israel. This is the Old Testiment of the Christian Bible. |
| First Temple | Soloman built the first temple in Jerusalem. It was to strengthen the link between religion and authority not connected to religion. |
| Monotheism | The belif in one god. |
| Diaspora | Greek word meaning "scattering". |
| Phoenicians | Name of the people who were from Syria-Palestine, starting their own civilizations. |
| Carthage | A colony of the Phoenicians. |
| Neo-Babylonian Kingdom | A large kingdom of Babylom that started conquesting. |
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