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AP World History List 1A Flashcards

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79671960civilizationcities as administrative centers, a political system based on defined territory rather than kinship, many people engaged in specialized, non-food producing activities0
79671961culturematerial objects such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts, along with nonmaterial values, beliefs, and languages1
79671962historythe development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events are the subject of history2
79671963Stone Agean age of tool making using stone, bone, skin, and wood materials that survive poorly3
79671964Paleolithica subdivision of the Stone Age (Old Stone Age), 3,000 years after ice age4
79671965Neolithic(New Stone Age), agricultural revolutions5
79671966foragershunting and food-gathering peoples6
79671967Agricultural Revolutionsthe changover from food gathering to food producing in the Neolithic Age which included the domestication of animals7
79671968Megalitha large prehistoric stone monument8
79671969fallowleft unplowed and unseeded during a growing season9
79671970lineageline of descent10
79671971pastoralistsnomads who kept herds of livestock on which they depended for most of their food11
79671972Swidden Agriculturealso called slash and burn agriculture. a form of cultivation in which forrested or brushy plots are cleared of vegetation burned then planted to crops only to be abandoned a few years later when soil fertility declines12
79671973matrilinealwhen a society traces lineage solely on the mother's side13
79671974patrilinealwhen a society traces lineage solely on the father's side14

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