The Earth and Its People Terms
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| 199880813 | Prehistory vs. History | Prehistory: Time in which there is no written record History: Recorded history | 0 | |
| 199880814 | Features of Civilization | Social etiquette, religion, education, literature | 1 | |
| 199880815 | Stages of Hominid Development | Austrolopithecus, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens | 2 | |
| 199880816 | "Out of Aftrica" Thesis vs. Multiregional Thesis | Humans originated from Africa and proliferated vs. originated from Africa but multiple geographical locations first 100 million years | 3 | |
| 199880817 | Paleolithic Era | Old Stone Age | 4 | |
| 199880818 | Neolithic Era | New Stone Age | 5 | |
| 199880819 | Family Units, Clans, Tribes | A group of people sharing common ancestry | 6 | |
| 199880820 | Foraging Societies | Nomadic, small communities and population, no political system, economic distribution is more equal | 7 | |
| 199880821 | Nomadic Hunters and Gatherers | Move place to place according to environment; adapts to environment | 8 | |
| 199880822 | Ice Age | Period of time where Earth was covered partly in ice | 9 | |
| 199880823 | Civilization | Changes when agriculture started | 10 | |
| 199880824 | Neolithic Revolution | Farming uses; start of agriculture | 11 | |
| 199880825 | Domestication of Plants and Animals | Farming system where animals are taken to different locations in order to find fresh pastures | 12 | |
| 199880826 | Nomadic Pastorialism | Slash-and-burn; once land is depleted, moved on to let soil recover | 13 | |
| 199880827 | Migratory Farmers | Farmers that migrate instead of settling after using up the land. | 14 | |
| 199880828 | Patrilineal/Patrilocal | Live with husband's family. Traced through father's lineage | 15 | |
| 199889414 | Irrigational Systems | replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops | 16 | |
| 199889415 | Metal Working | craft and practice of working with metals to create parts or structures. It requires skill and the use of many different types of tools | 17 | |
| 199889416 | Ethnocentricity | to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture Page: | 18 | |
| 199889417 | Foraging | Looking for food Page: 6 | 19 | |
| 199889418 | Sedentary Agriculture | Domestication of plants and animals Page: | 20 | |
| 199889419 | Shifting Cultivation | process by which people take an area of land to use for agriculture, only to abandon it a short time later Page: | 21 | |
| 199889420 | Slash-and-Burn Agriculture | Trees cut down, plots made for agriculture Page: | 22 | |
| 199889421 | Matrilineal | System in which one belongs to mother's lineage Page:11 | 23 | |
| 199889422 | Culture Diffusion | spread of ideas and material culture, especially if these occur independently of population movement Page: | 24 | |
| 199889423 | Independent Invention | Creative innovations of new solutions to old and new problems Page: | 25 | |
| 199889424 | Specialization of Labor | specialisation of co-operative labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles, intended to increase efficiency of output Page: | 26 | |
| 199889425 | Gender Division of Labor | Labor divided between man and woman, hunting and gathering etc. Page: | 27 | |
| 199889426 | Metallurgy and Metalworking | the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called alloys. craft and practice of working with metals to create parts or structures Page: | 28 | |
| 199889427 | Fertile Crescent | a region in the Middle East incorporating present-day Israel, West Bank, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq and south-eastern Turkey. Page:14 | 29 | |
| 199889428 | Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh became a legendary protagonist in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Page: 5 | 30 | |
| 199889429 | Hammurabi's Law Code | First set of defined laws within a civilization. Page: 17 | 31 | |
| 199889430 | Egypt | the civilization of the Lower Nile Valley, between the First Cataract and the mouths of the Nile Delta, from circa 3300 BC until the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC. As a civilization based on irrigation, it is the quintessential example of a hydraulic empire. Page:7 | 32 | |
| 199889431 | Egyptian Book of the Dead | common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary texts. Constituted a collection of spells, charms, passwords, numbers and magical formulas for use by the deceased in the afterlife, describing many of the basic tenets of Egyptian mythology. They were intended to guide the dead through the various trials that they would encounter before reaching the underworld. Knowledge of the appropriate spells was considered essential to achieving happiness after death. Page: 28 | 33 | |
| 199889432 | Pyramids | tombs for egyptian kings Page: 25 | 34 | |
| 199889433 | Hieroglyphics | system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. Page:26 | 35 | |
| 199889434 | Indus Calley Civilization | an ancient civilization thriving along the Indus River and the Ghaggar-Hakra river in what is now Pakistan and western India. The Indus Valley Civilization is also sometimes referred to as the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference to its first excavated city of Harappa Page: 20 | 36 | |
| 199889435 | Early China | Xia, Shang, Zhou, Warring States Period, Qin, Han Page: 38 | 37 | |
| 199889436 | The Celts | group of peoples that occupied lands stretching from the British Isles to Gallatia. Went to war with Romans. Page: | 38 | |
| 199889437 | The Hittietes and Iron Weapons | First to work iron, first to enter Iron Age. controlled central Anatolia, north-western Syria down to Ugarit, and Mesopotamia down to Babylon, lasted from roughly 1680 BC to about 1180 BC. After 1180 BC, the Hittite polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived as late as around 700 BC. Page: 65 | 39 | |
| 199889438 | The Assyrian and Cavalry Warfare | indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Started cavalry warfare? Page: 62 | 40 |
