Chapter 2 Reading Guide Ap World History

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AP Globe History Chapter two Vocabulary Notes Flashcards

10930794548	Axum	Aksum was the name of a urban center and a kingdom which is substantially modern-twenty-four hours northern Ethiopia (Tigray province) and Eritrea. Research shows that Aksum was a major naval and trading power from the 1st to the 7th centuries C.E. As a civilization it had a profound bear upon upon the people of Egypt, southern Arabia, Europe and Asia, all of whom were visitors to its shores, and in some cases were residents.		0
10930809636	City-States	a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state		1
10930805581	Code of Hammurabi	A series of laws published at the club of Rex Hammurabi of Babylon (d.1750 B.C.Due east.). Non really a code, just a number of laws that proclaim the king'southward commitment to social club.		2
10930833512	Cuneiform	denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on dirt tablets		3
10947453411	Desertification	the process past which fertile state becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture		iv
10947468796	Division of Labor	the consignment of unlike parts of a manufacturing process or job to different people in order to better efficiency		v
10947535649	Ballsy of Gilgamesh	The about famous extant literary work from aboriginal Mesopotamia, information technology tells the story of one man's quest for immortality.		half dozen
10947542570	Egypt (The Gift of the Nile)	Arab republic of egypt is often known as "the gift of the Nile" considering the region would not have been able to support a meaning homo population without the Nile's annual inundation, which provided rich silt deposits and fabricated agriculture possible.		vii
10947552086	Fertile Crescent	historical crescent-shaped region in the Middle E, extending from the E stop of the Mediterranean Sea to the Tigris & Euphrates rivers: significant as the birthplace of several ancient civilizations		8
10947560287	Mandate of Heaven	As well known equally Heaven'southward Mandate, was the divine source of authority and the correct to dominion of Red china's early kings and emperors. The aboriginal god or divine force known as Sky or Sky had selected this particular individual to rule on its behalf on earth. An of import element of the mandate was that although the ruler had been given keen ability he also had a moral obligation to use it for the skillful of his people, if he did not then his state would suffer terrible disasters and he would lose the right to govern.		nine
10947568760	Mesoamerica	the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which various pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.		10
10947578338	Mesopotamia	An ancient region of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in mod-day Iraq. Probably settled before 5000 bc, the area was the dwelling of numerous early on civilizations, including Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria. This region is a portion of the larger Fertile Crescent.		11
10947589039	Mohenjo Daro/Harappa	Major cities of the Indus Valley civilization; both of which flourished around 2000 B.C.East. (pron. moehen-joe DAHR-oh) (pron. hah-RAHP-uh)		12
10947598457	Nubia	A civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile Valley, noted for evolution of an alphabetic writing system and a major iron-working industry by 500 B.C.E.		13
10947607292	Pharaoh	A king of Arab republic of egypt. The term literally means "the palace" and only came into apply in the New Kingdom, just information technology is by and large employed in reference to all aboriginal Egyptian rulers.		14
10947615626	Sanskrit	An aboriginal Indic linguistic communication that is the language of Hinduism and the Vedas and is the classical literary linguistic communication of India. Like Latin in Europe and elsewhere, Sanskrit has been used by the educated classes in India for literary and religious purposes for over two thousand years.		15
10947624547	Scribe	a person who copies documents, esp a person who fabricated handwritten copies before the invention of press		16
10947631046	Shang Dynasty	The Shang Dynasty is the earliest ruling dynasty of Prc to be established in recorded history, though other dynasties predated it. The Shang ruled from 1700 to 1027 B.C. and were known for their advances in math, astronomy, artwork and war machine engineering science.		17
10947637678	Sumer/Sumerians	An aboriginal country of southern Mesopotamia in present-day southern Republic of iraq. Archaeological evidence dates the ancestry of Sumer to the fifth millennium BC. By 3000 a flourishing civilization existed, which gradually exerted power over the surrounding area and culminated in the Akkadian dynasty, founded c. 2300 by Sargon I. Sumer declined later 2000 and was later absorbed by Babylonia and Assyria. The Sumerians are believed to have invented the cuneiform arrangement of writing.		18
10947650779	Theocracy	a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized equally the supreme ruler		19
10947660054	Vedic Age	The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 - c. 500 B.C.Due east.) is the flow in the history of India during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, were being composed.		20
10947668105	Ziggurat	(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted past a temple. Ziggurats are outset attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel		21
10947673932	Statuary Age	The Bronze Age is a menses characterized by the utilize of bronze, proto-writing, and other early on features of urban civilisation. 3500 BCE - 1300 BCE. Bronze is made through mixing copper with an alloy such as can. It is stronger and more durable than copper.		22
10947683946	Iron Age	The showtime of the Iron Age proper is considered past many to autumn between around 1200 BCE to 600 BCE, depending on the region. In well-nigh parts of the world, its terminate is defined past the widespread adoption of writing, and therefore marks the transition from prehistory to history.		23
10947690178	Assyrians	a major Mesopotamian E Semitic-speaking kingdom and empire of the ancient Centre East, existed equally an contained state from perhaps as early equally the 2600 BCE, until its plummet between 612 BCE and 599 BCE		24
10947699828	Akkadians	was the get-go ancient Semitic-speaking empire of Mesopotamia, centered in the urban center of Akkad and its surrounding region, besides chosen Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia. The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests past its founder Sargon of Akkad (2334-2279 BCE). Under Sargon and his successors, the Akkadian linguistic communication was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states.		25

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