PRHS ap world 1 midterm review sheet
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| 292052519 | Prehistory | period before writing | 0 | |
| 292052520 | Archaelogist | a specialist in archeology, the scientific study of prehistoric peoples and their cultures, artifacts, inscriptions, monuments etc... | 1 | |
| 292052521 | Artifact | a human-made object found by archealogists that holds a clue to the culture and the society of human in ancient times | 2 | |
| 292052522 | Historian | a writer and expert in history | 3 | |
| 292052523 | Nomad | an individual within a group who has no permanent settlement, but moves around from place to place usually because of seasonal changes or a scarsity of food | 4 | |
| 292052524 | Paleolithic Age | "Old Stone Age"( 200,000-10,000BCE) before farming, hunters and gatherers, social equality, season migrations, well-planned hunts, no written records, small groups lived together(30-50) | 5 | |
| 292052525 | Neolithic Age | "New Stone Age", refined tools and agriculture, domestication of animals, emergence of villages & small towns, specialization of labor | 6 | |
| 292327975 | The difference between the Paleolithic period & the Neolithic period | Paleothic peoples possessed more intelligence than other animals, invented tools & languages. Neolithic peoples cultivated food & built agricultural societies & human population rose dramatically | 7 | |
| 292327976 | The effects of the Neolithic period on the development of civilization | The Neolithic period enabled the human population to grow and settle down because of the invention of agriculture. | 8 | |
| 292424658 | 8 basic features of civilization | D: different jobs, O: organized religion, G: government, C: cities, P: public works, A: arts and architecture, W: writing S: social classes | 9 | |
| 292424659 | Polytheism | belief in many gods | 10 | |
| 292424660 | Cultural diffusion | when cultures are spread through region ex. Indo-European culture that started in Ukraine and spread throughout Europe | 11 | |
| 292424661 | pictogram | ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object examples include prehistoric painting and drawings | 12 | |
| 292424662 | Characteristics of Judaism | originally polytheistic, then monotheistic- Yahweh, believed that God demanded high moral & ethical standards, ten commandments, covenant with God, Israelite teaching recorded in the Torah - 5books of Moses | 13 | |
| 292424663 | Ancient Egyptian Achievements | Pyramids of Giza: monuments built as the tombs of pharaohs, hieroglyphics: Writing depicted on monuments, iron and bronze metallurgy, trade networks using the Nile, conquering Kush, organized polytheistic religion-Amon re, Osiris | 14 | |
| 292424664 | Geographic Characteristics river valleys | .moderate climate, rivers flooded & left behind fertile soil, rivers allowed for complex irrigation systems | 15 | |
| 292424665 | Fertile Crescent | valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - Modern Iraq, Mesopotamia | 16 | |
| 292424666 | Mesopotamia | 1st complex civilization, the fertile crescent, many city-states: city with an independent government that controls the city and the surrounding area, Order: Sumer, Akkadians, Babylon, Assyrians | 17 | |
| 292424667 | Sumerian Achievements | 2300 BCE: Sargon of Akkad conquers most Sumerian cities and take over trade routes and natural resources | 18 | |
| 292424668 | Achievemnets of the Hittites | 1400 BCE: attracted by wealth of Babylonian empire, introduced metal-working | 19 |
