11016160535 | What problem arose when people started domesticating animals? | disease from animals | 0 | |
11016160536 | Who traveled over beringea? | people from Eastern Siberia | 1 | |
11016160537 | What are small figurines of women that are believed to be goddesses? | Venus Figurines | 2 | |
11016160538 | Animal husbandry was more common in what type of communities? | Pastoralist societies | 3 | |
11016160539 | What is another name for the Agricultural Revolution? | Neolithic Revolution | 4 | |
11016160540 | What is the first evidence of social stratification? | house sites & graves | 5 | |
11016160541 | When the most successful Neolithic farming communities began to increase their trade subsequently what happened? | it attracted more people | 6 | |
11016160542 | How were professions developed? | when Nomads began to farm and settle into communities, professions were developed as the community released people from farm labor | 7 | |
11016160543 | How was the religious or spiritual aspect of the Paleolithic culture described? | as a cynical view of time that emphasized regeneration and disintegration | 8 | |
11016160544 | What was the function of Stonehenge? | burial site | 9 | |
11016160545 | What allowed for communities and population to grow? | food surplus | 10 | |
11016160546 | What is the fertility goddess also named? | Venus | 11 | |
11016160547 | What is animal husbandry? | the breeding and caring of animals; domestication | 12 | |
11016160548 | What is megafaunal? | large animals (ex. wooly mammoth) that were probably hunted to extinction | 13 | |
11016160549 | What is intensification? | to get more for less; more food less land | 14 | |
11016160550 | What is egalitarianism? | equality of men and women | 15 | |
11016160551 | What is social stratification? | social classes based on wealth | 16 | |
11016160552 | What did pastoral and agricultural village societies both have in common? | Both possessed relatively egalitarian social structures with few social distinctions. | 17 | |
11016160553 | What are two other names for pastoralists? | herders or nomads | 18 | |
11016160554 | What is an example of an agriculture village society? | Catalhuyuk | 19 | |
11016160555 | The Clovis culture of North America disappeared from the archaeological record around the same time as what? | Many species of large animals became extinct | 20 | |
11016160556 | How can archeologists differentiate a gravesite from being a cemetery (from a city) or from a nomad group? | if there are multiple elaborate gravesites it is a more than likely a cemetery | 21 | |
11016160557 | What is metallurgy? | the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties. | 22 | |
11016160558 | Why are the Bantu so important? | they have more than 400 languages spread all over; originated from Africa; migrated all the way to south Africa and spread their culture, agriculture, iron-working skills, etc. as they went; killed pastoralists also that were in the land they wanted | 23 | |
11016160559 | What is the Gobekli Tepe? | a monumental ceremonial cite in Turkey; built by gathering and hunting peoples around 11,600 years ago; named the world's oldest temple | 24 | |
11016160560 | What were men's responsibilities in the old stone age? | to hunt, provide safety, etc. | 25 | |
11016160561 | What were women's responsibilities in the old stone age? | to gather, care for the children, set up the home, prepare the food, etc. | 26 | |
11016160562 | What is the clovis culture? | a group of people in the Americas around 13,000 years ago who were distinct and widespread; suddenly disappeared probably due to lack of food because of animal extinction; know for the "clovis point" and killing large animals | 27 | |
11016160563 | Who are the Austronesian people? | people from southern China that traveled on ocean canoes to the Pacific Islands using remarkable navigation skills; also has a widespread set of languages | 28 | |
11016160564 | What is a chiefdom? | when a agriculture village societies came to be politically organized as a chief; force/harm was not used by chiefs to control their subjects; began social classes, unequal circumstances | 29 | |
11016160565 | What is a civilization? | a particularly well-organized and developed society | 30 | |
11016160566 | What is culture? | the beliefs, customs, arts, etc. of a particular society, group, place or time | 31 | |
11016160567 | What is diffusion? | the transmission of elements or features of one culture to another | 32 | |
11016160568 | What is an empire? | a group of countries or regions that are controlled by one government/ruler | 33 | |
11016160569 | What is an epidemic? | extremely prevalent; widespread; often a disease | 34 | |
11016160570 | What is an era? | a period of time marked by distinctive character, events | 35 | |
11016160571 | What is a forager? | the seeking or obtaining of such food | 36 | |
11016160572 | What is globalization? | worldwide integration and development | 37 | |
11016160573 | What is migration? | to move from one country or place to another for work or lifestyle | 38 | |
11016160574 | What does neolithic mean? | the last stage of the stone age | 39 | |
11016160575 | What is a nomad? | a member of a group of people who move from place to place instead of living in one place all the time | 40 | |
11016160576 | What does paleolithic mean? | of or relating to the time during the early stone age when people made rough tools and weapons out of stone | 41 | |
11016160577 | What is a pandemic? | a disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the world (epidemic is a smaller version of a pandemic) | 42 | |
11016160578 | What is the meaning of the word pastoral? | pertaining to the country; or pastoralists (people who are nomadic and rely on animal husbandry for food) | 43 | |
11016160579 | What does the word prehistoric mean? | of or before written history | 44 | |
11016160580 | What is a revolution? | a radical and pervasive change in society and social structure | 45 | |
11016160581 | Who are shamans? | people who led religious ceremonies in the Paleolithic religions | 46 | |
11016160582 | What is the Fertile Crescent? | a very lush region in the middle east where agriculture was very successful ; region where Mesopotamia was located | 47 | |
11016160583 | What were the three different kinds of societies in the age of agriculture? | Pastoral Societies, Agricultural Village Societies, and Chiefdoms | 48 | |
11016160584 | What was the sequence of human migration across the planet? | 70,000 - Asia 60,000 to 40,000 - Australia 45,000 - Europe 30,000 to 15,000 - Americas 1,000 - 7000 - New Zealand and Pacific Islands | 49 | |
11016160585 | How did Austronesian migrations differ from other early patterns of human movement? | they migrated by ocean canoe/boat; they were the most recent of the migrations; the people migrating brought animals and agricultural technology with them | 50 | |
11016160586 | In what ways did a gathering and hunting economy shape other aspects of Paleolithic societies? | they allowed for an equal life for all genders, free of injustice | 51 | |
11016160587 | Why did some Paleolithic peoples abandon earlier, more nomadic ways and begin to live a more settled life? | so that they grow more food, and increase their population | 52 | |
11016160588 | How do you understand the significance of the long Paleolithic era in the larger context of world history? | was the basis of the world as we know it today | 53 | |
11016160589 | What accounts for the emergence of agriculture after countless millennia of human life without it? | the global warming after the ice age; climatic conditions | 54 | |
11016160590 | In what different ways did the Agricultural Revolution take shape in various parts of the world? | it took shape differently in various parts of the world because of the different climates throughout the world | 55 | |
11016160591 | In what ways did agriculture spread? | it was spread in two different ways: diffusion or the migration of agricultural peoples (colonization) | 56 | |
11016160592 | Where and why was agriculture sometimes resisted? | it was resisted in two different ways: 1. in dry or cold areas where agriculture was impossible 2. or where they already had lush food sources | 57 | |
11016160593 | What changes did the Agricultural Revolution bring in its wake? | technology, surplus food, population growth, civilizations, specialized jobs | 58 | |
11016160594 | What was revolutionary about the Agricultural Revolution? | basis of the our lives today | 59 |
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