7318162383 | Paleolithic Rock Art | Art that represented inner and outer life of gathering and hunting peoples. | 0 | |
7318162384 | Venus figurines | They were statues in the town of Willendorf Austria that showed strong feminine dimension and renewal of life and the goddess Venus. | 1 | |
7318163770 | Dreamtime | The time of the first ancestors. | 2 | |
7318163771 | Clovis culture | This was where stone tools began; an Indian culture. | 3 | |
7318167013 | megafaunal extinction | Plenty of animals became extinct because of the last ice age. | 4 | |
7318168477 | Austronesian migrations | The idea that the Austronesians migrated from Asia to the Pacific and expanded | 5 | |
7318170601 | "the original affluent society" | The idea that hunter-gatherers were the first peoples of society | 6 | |
7318170602 | shamans | People skilled specifically for spirits. | 7 | |
7318170641 | trance dance | A dance created that was believed to give access to spirits/ the spirit world. | 8 | |
7318173164 | Paleolithic settling down | Societies began more permanent and larger complex buildings. This meant you could store food and with that societies kept advancing. | 9 | |
7318173165 | San culture | The San culture began about 5,000 years ago in Africa. They were more traditional and stuck to their old ways. They used art that is considered the "oldest artistic tradition[s] of humankind." Their tools were sufficient enough to get the work done but they hardly advanced. | 10 | |
7318175173 | "insulting the meat" | It takes skills to hunt, when a hunter has negative comments about what he/she is to kill about the size of quality of the kill such as pride, he would be considered to have weak skill. | 11 | |
7318175174 | Chumash culture | The Chumash culture began with 20,000 people and had "modern" technology compared to other societies. Technology innovation led to huge advancements in the society (the tomol/canoe). They were also a very resourceful environment with riches from diverse skill sets. | 12 | |
7318180767 | Brotherhood of the Tomol | The tomol was a canoe that was made with either redwood or pine and increased trade. The Brotherhood of the Tomel was in charge of the production of tools and knowledge of these boats and the sacred things in them. | 13 | |
7331088326 | Neolithic Era | "New Stone Age" | 14 | |
7331089305 | Paleolithic Era | physical changes (walking upright and bigger brains), technology (fire and tools), and migration that increased the population. | 15 | |
7331092578 | Agriculture | organized farming of plants and animals | 16 | |
7331093933 | Domestication | selective growing or breeding or plants and animals | 17 | |
7331094778 | Animals | they were domesticated before plants; goats and sheep, they would bred the better animals | 18 | |
7331097384 | Pros | life gets easier, villages, resources, less starvation, time for activities, religion, art, language, culture, bigger brains, tools, and more food. | 19 | |
7331100599 | Cons | conflict/warfare, disease, dependence on weather for farming. | 20 | |
7331103155 | Where was the beginning of human history? | 150,000 years ago in Africa. Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas to islands of the Pacific | 21 | |
7331106476 | Eurasia | 45,000 years ago; Africa to Middle East to westward in Europe to eastward in Asia; cold climates pushed people south; cave paintings/ early forms of writing | 22 |
AP World History: Chapter 1 Flashcards
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