AP World History Unit 1 Test

Nomadic People Small Kinship Groups Egalitarian (Male and Female are equal) Small Population All Together Animism religion Limited Stone Technology Fire Domestication of Animals

Sedentary Lifestyle (Opposed to Nomadic) The Sedentary Lifestyle didn't happen all at once took many years. It began in the middle east They formed the first social hierarchy New tools: - Irrigation systems - Plows - Wheeled Vehicles - Pots Patriarchal System (Men more dominant than women.) More prominent religion Population Increase Farming lifestyle caused erosion

Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates Rivers) - First real civilization - Created the wheel plow and the first irrigation systems - Ziggurats - Religious temples - Also town halls - Attacked more often than Egypt and the Shang-Dynasty Egypt (Nile River) - Pyramids - Created as tombs for the Pharroh - Religion - Pharroh is the Son of God - Pictographic language Kush (Nile River) Shang Dynasty (Yellow River) - Much more isolated than any other civilization - Gobi Dessert - Tian-Shan Mountain Range - Indographic (symbols) - Only civilization that did this - Used language to tell the future - Written on Oracle bone (Turtle Shell) - Religion - Not Polytheistic - Ancestry Indus River - Harappa - Interesting city set-up - Community center - Grid like city designs - First sewer system Olmec - Made large stone heads Norte Chico Laws - Hammurabi's Code - Male Dominant - Very sever (Crimes usually resulted in death.) - Favored the wealthy - Also mentioned Economic Transactions Aryan Migration - Vedas (Religion) Bronze Age - Spread with warfare - New tools - Chariots - Bow & Arrow Transportation - Horseback - Ships - Wheeled Carts