7318225382 | end of the last Ice Age | 11,000 years ago it ended creating conditions that encouraged agriculture, such as warmer and wetter weather that increased wild plants, which then became domesticated crops. | 0 | |
7318225383 | "broad spectrum diet" | he idea that hunter and gatherers had to learn to eat both small and large animals. | 1 | |
7318226958 | Fertile Crescent | evidence shows that this place was the first to show a full Agricultural Revolution; there were large amounts of plants and animals that provided plentiful resources. | 2 | |
7318226959 | teosinte | a mountain grass, also the ancestor of corn which took place in the Americas. | 3 | |
7318235082 | diffusion | spreading of ideas and techniques throughout the world without the movement of agricultural people | 4 | |
7318235083 | Bantu migration | people of this language moved east and south from what is now Nigeria; they drove away Paleolithic people through absorption, killing, or diseases from animals. | 5 | |
7318235084 | people of Australia | kept the hunter-gatherer traditions and avoided the spread of agriculture. | 6 | |
7318235085 | Banpo | an ancient village in China that began 7,000 years ago which showed major technology innovation; evidence shows there was domestication of millet pigs and dogs and there were more than 200 storage pits. | 7 | |
7318235142 | "secondary products revolution" | around 4,000 B.C.E. there were new uses of domestic animals, parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa began things such as milking, harvesting wool, using manure for soil enrichment, and transportation (riding horses). | 8 | |
7318235143 | pastoral societies | societies than increasingly relied on animals to live, which then things such as herders, pastoralists, and nomads came to be; people relied on milk, meat, and blood of animals to survive and began riding horses around 4,000 B.C.E. | 9 | |
7318235144 | Catalhuyuk | located in southern Turkey, this place maintained an equal and free society; there was no indication of male or female dominance. They buried dead under their houses and there were no streets dividing the housing. | 10 | |
7318237594 | "stateless societies" | societies that contained specific leaders which created things with more culture, newer crops, adapted to new environments, and seem similar to today's world. | 11 | |
7318237595 | cheifdoms | inherited positions of power which therefore introduced inequality. | 12 | |
7318235049 | diffusion | 13 | ||
7318235050 | Bantu migration | 14 |
AP World History: Chapter 2 Flashcards
Primary tabs
Need Help?
We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.
If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.
Need Notes?
While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!