1575503959 | agriculture | the deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber | 0 | |
1575503960 | bipedalism | the ability to walk upright on two legs | 1 | |
1575503961 | Catal Hayuk | In Southern Turkey. Houses were joined together. Traded flint, obsidian, and jewelry. foreshadowed cities | 2 | |
1575503962 | division of labor | Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers | 3 | |
1575503963 | horticulture | Cultivation of crops carried out with simple hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes. | 4 | |
1575503964 | independent inventions | development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances | 5 | |
1575503965 | Jericho | Large and elaborate agricultural settlement, round mud and brick houses, surrounded by a massive stone wall, traded salt, sulfur, and pitch, foreshadowed cities | 6 | |
1575503966 | Lucy | A 40% complete skeleton discovery of an Australopithecus afarensis, or a species within the category of hominid. She was discovered in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia. 32-million-year-old remains. | 7 | |
1575503967 | Neolithic craft industries | Pottery, metallurgy, and textile production. Pottery was a medium artistic expression as well as a source for utensils and materials, metallurgy included copper which was workable for tools, and textile production was threaded or woven fabric done by women which became an important enterprise. | 8 | |
1575503968 | Neolithic Revolution | 8000 BCE to 3000 BCE; move from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles and town and city life; small communities; specialization of labor | 9 | |
1575503969 | Paleolithic Age | (750,000 BCE - 8,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age. A period of time in human history characterized by the use of stone tools and the use of hunting and gathering as a food source. | 10 | |
1575503970 | pastoralism | A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals to use for food, clothing, and shelter | 11 | |
1575503971 | polytheism | belief in multiple Gods | 12 | |
1575503972 | primary sources | Eyewitness accounts of history. They include letters, diaries, speeches, historical documents and interviews. | 13 | |
1575503973 | specialization | Each person specializes in the task that he or she is good at performing | 14 | |
1575503974 | surplus | A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded | 15 |
AP World History Unit 1 Chapter 1 Flashcards
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