§upa - Jeopardy Terms - 1 - Prehistoric Flashcards

List of Jeopardy Terms for AP World History

9354581	Prehistory	Period of the human past before writing was invented in 3000 B.C.E.	0
9354582	History	The story of the human past	1
9354583	Writing	Development that separates prehistory from recorded history	2
9354584	Legends	Folktales that explain the past	3
9354585	Culture	The way of life of a people	4
9354586	Population	The number of people who live in a given area	5
9354587	Historian	Person who studies the human past	6
9354588	Geography	The study of people, their environments, and their resources	7
9354589	Geologist	Scientist who studies the Earth	8
9354590	Archaeologist	Scientist who studies the remains of ancient peoples and civilizations	9
9354591	Civilization	Society centered around cities	10
9354592	Artifact	Any surviving object made by early people	11
9354593	Ice Age	Period when the northern continents were buried under ice and snow	12
9354594	B.C.	Before the birth of Christ	13
9354595	A.D.	Anno Domini, the years after the birth of Christ	14
9354596	Stone Age	First period of human history	15
9354597	Common Era	What C.E. stands for	16
9354598	Before Common Era	What B.C.E. stands for	17
9354599	Glaciers	Huge, slowly moving masses of ice and snow	18
9354600	Eon	Exceptionally long period of time	19
9354601	Era	Period of time figured from some particular date	20
9354602	Africa	Continent where the earliest humanlike remains have been found	21
9354603	Neanderthal	Muscular prehistoric people who were not ancestors of modern humans	22
9354604	Cro-Magnon	Prehistoric people who closely remembered modern humans	23
9354605	Posture	Characteristic that allowed humans to use their hands freely	24
9354606	Language	Skill that allowed humans to pass along knowledge	25
9354607	Large Brain	Characteristic that allowed humans to store and use more information than animals	26
9354608	Heavy Jaw	One of the facial characteristics that made a Neanderthal different from a Cro-Magnon	27
9354609	Homo Habilis	"Skillful Human"	28
9354610	Homo Erectus	"Upright Human"	29
9354611	Homo Sapien	"Wise Human"	30
9354612	Hunting and Gathering	Earliest Paleolithic ways of getting food	31
9354613	Tool	A shaped stone	32
9354614	Animal Skin	Earliest clothing material	33
9354615	Fire	Resource used both for cooking and as a weapon	34
9354616	Caves	Neanderthal shelters	35
9354617	Mammoth	Huge wooly creature; often hunted	36
9354618	Burial	How Neanderthals disposed of their dead	37
9354619	Cave Paintings	Prehistoric wall art	38
9354620	Farming and Herding	Neolithic ways of seuring food	39
9354621	Villages	New, Neolithic living arrangement	40
9354622	Pottery	Neolithic invention used for cooking and food storage	41
9354623	Cloth	Neolithic clothing material	42
9354624	Clan	Large, extended kinship unit	43
9354625	Excavation	Digging into the earth to find ancient remains	44
9354626	Decipher	To decode an ancient language	45
9354627	Research	Careful hunting for facts or evidence	46
9354628	Theory	Idea about how something happened	47
9354629	To Date	To determine how old a historical find is	48
9354630	Philologist	Scientist who studies languages and written records	49
9354631	Anthropologist	Scientist who studies the origin and development of human beings	50
9354632	Patrilineal	Term for father-related society	51
9354633	Matrilineal	Term for mother-related society	52
9354634	Paleontologist	Scientist who studies fossilized remains of early life	53
9354635	Paleolithic Age	Old Stone Age	54
9354636	Neolithic Age	New Stone Age	55
9354637	Millenium	Period of 1000 years	56
9354638	Tree Rings	These were formerly used to date archaeological sites	57
9354639	C-14	Radioactive elements used to date ancient objects	58
9354640	Neolithic Revolution	The shift from food hunting and gathering to food producing	59
9354641	3000 B.C.E.	When the Stone Age ended	60
9354642	8000 B.C.E.	When the Neolithic Age began	61
9354643	2.5 million - 8000 B.C.E.	Years of the Paleolithic Age	62
9354644	8000 B.C.E.	When the last Ice Age ended	63
9354645	Java Man	Prehistoric dweller on a Southeast Asian Island	64
9354646	Peking Man	Prehistoric dweller of China	65
9354647	100000 years ago	When Homo Sapiens emerged	66
9354648	40000 years ago	When Cro-Magnon people emerged	67
9354649	Skin	The color of this depended on the climate where people lived	68
9354650	Aborigines	People who have lived in Australia since prehistoric times	69
9354651	Lucy	A 3.5 million-year-old female humanlike skeleton found in Ethiopia	70
9354652	Neander	River in western Germany where Neanderthal remains were first found	71
9354653	Hominids	Term for creatures that walk upright	72
9354654	Metal	Neolithic material that began to replace stone	73
9354655	Wheel	Neolithic invention that was the basis of transportation	74
9354656	Loom	Neolithic invention that was a machine to weave cloth	75
9354657	Straw or Dung	Material mixed with clay to produce pottery	76
9354658	Nomads	People who wandered from place to place, as Old Stone Age people did	77
9354659	Obsidian	Hardened lava from volcanoes; used as mirrors	78
9354660	Chipping	Methods of shaping stone in the Old Stone Age	79
9354661	Grinding	Method of shaping stone in the New Stone Age	80
9354662	Life after Death	Neanderthal religious belief about death	81
9354663	Dog	First domesticated animal	82
9354664	Pastoralism	Mobile way of life that depended on large herds of livestock	83

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