8318965606 | Hunter-gatherers | Hunter-gatherers rely on foraging and collecting food as their main food supply. Hunting animals, fishing, and gathering plants etc. NOT food producers. | 0 | |
8319004700 | Paleolithic Era | Paleolithic = Old Stone Age. people were hunter-gatherers who lived in small bands and had a low population density. Used stone blades and points, tools made from bones, and grindstones too. | 1 | |
8319094230 | Homo sapiens | Emerged in Africa 200,000-250,000 years ago. Used tools, hunted and fished, adapted to nearly every environment on earth! | 2 | |
8319104391 | Blombos Cave | Cave in South Africa used as an Ochre Workshop. Helps to illustrate what Paleolithic peoples did. (Body ornaments, beads, pigments for cave art or body). | 3 | |
8319194691 | Ice Age | Lowered Sea-levels, created ~land-bridges~. | 4 | |
8319215382 | Cave Art | Paintings of animals, humans, human hands, and abstract design. | 5 | |
8319224506 | Venus Figurines | Paleolithic Age figurines depicting the female figure. Carved from stone, antlers, mammoth tusks, occasionally some were baked clay. | 6 | |
8319282919 | Aboriginal Australians | They developed 250 languages, collected bulbs, roots, tubers and others, also hunted and fished. | 7 | |
8319329273 | Dreamtime | Stories, extended ceremonies, and evocative rock art that all told a creation story. (From Aboriginal Australians). | 8 | |
8319348974 | Pituri | Addictive drug traded by the Aboriginal Australian people. | 9 | |
8319374067 | Clovis Point | The Clovis culture emerged 13,000 years ago in THE AMERICAS. They camped along springs, rivers, and waterholes. Named after their distinctive projectile point. | 10 | |
8319405518 | Moa | A flightless bird endemic to New Zealand, pushed to extinction in the first century after humans arrived. | 11 | |
8319422477 | Kinship | Paleolithic societies of 25-50 people. | 12 | |
8319432191 | Neanderthal man | Extinct Species of homininae | 13 | |
8319435748 | Shamans | religious authorities/ritual specialists, (priests, medicine men etc.) | 14 | |
8319478328 | Trance Dance | Ritual or spiritual dance that puts its performer in a trance like state. | 15 | |
8319486873 | 'Ceremonial space' | Caves with rock art which were far from living areas, (used/reserved only for ceremonies). | 16 | |
8319501862 | Animism | Everything is animated by spirit, (rocks, plants etc.). | 17 | |
8319509549 | Global Warming | Caused plants and animals to flourish. | 18 | |
8319518142 | Neolithic Era | Neolithic Era = New Stone Age. In this age we see the beginning of agriculture and animal domestication. | 19 | |
8319534138 | Agricultural Revolution | Deliberate Cultivation of plants and domestication of animals. | 20 | |
8319556748 | Animal Domestication : _______ | Created a mutual dependance between humans and animals. | 21 | |
8319632182 | Animals and Crops of the Fertile Crescent, (Southwest Asia) | Cattle, Dogs, Donkey, Goat, Pig, Sheep - Barley, Lentils, Peas, Wheat, Flax. | 22 | |
8319764702 | Fertile Crescent | 1st full Agricultural revolution. Large increase in settlements, (several thousands). Sun-dried Mud-bricks, shrine like buildings, elaborate burials, sickles, axes, awls. | 23 | |
8319886369 | Fertile Crescent location | The Fertile Crescent looks like a cap stretched over the top of the Arabian peninsula, (Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Southern Turkey). | ![]() | 24 |
8319992408 | proximity to animals = | Results in Small Pox, Flu, Measles, Chicken Pox, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Rubies. | 25 | |
8320025791 | Banpo Village in Xian | Several well organized Neolithic settlements discovered/found in the Yellow River Valley of Xian. | 26 | |
8320120708 | Pastoralism | raising and caring for livestock. Following herds, Nomadic lifestyle. | 27 | |
8320818942 | "Title Societies" | Societies where certain people had 'titles' and more control, NOT inherited. | 28 |
AP World History Chapter 1 Part 1 Flashcards
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