Ap World History Unit 1 & 2 Notes/summary + Amsco Book Summaries

Polytheism {Ans: Belief in more than one god}Babylon {Ans: second oldest Mesopotamian city state, succeeds Sumer, most important king was Hammurabi}Sumerians {Ans: People who migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 B.C.E.; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states}Paleolithic {Ans: The period that ended about 3,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, it lasted until about 10,000 years ago. (Old Stone Age) The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.}foragers {Ans: Food collectors who gather, fish, or hunt}Indus River Valley Civilization {Ans: an ancient civilization thriving along the Indus River in what is now Pakistan and western India. This civilization is also sometimes referred to as the Harappan or Harappa-Mohenjodaro Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference to the excavated cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro}paleolithic {Ans: stone age period when human used stone tools and survived by hunting and foraging}Pharaoh {Ans: The term used to denote the kings of ancient Egypt; considered a god as well as a political and military leader. The term, "great house" refers to the palace of the pharaohs}Varna {Ans: Caste system of