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Period 1 AP World History Flashcards

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14686482659what time period is period 1?8,000 to 600 BCE0
14686488326East AsiaChina and Japan1
14686489679South AsiaIndia, Pakistan, Afghanistan2
14686492656South east AsiaMalaysia, Thailand, Indonesia3
14686499638South west AsiaMiddle East4
14686505499Paleolithic eraOld Stone Age5
14686515122During the paleolithic erahunting and foraging bans of humans gradually migrated from East Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas6
14686519868Neolithic eraNew Stone Age, 8,000 BCE (10,000 years ago)7
14686537096During the Neolithic eraincrease in agriculture, development of more complex economic and social systems8
14686549378River Valley CivilizationsNile, Tigris-Euphrates, Indus-Ganges, Yellow (Hung-he)9
14686561649traits of civilization1.Increased trade 2.A system of writing (record keeping) 3.Specialized labor 4.Social stratification (pyramid) 5.Complex government systems 6. Religious systems 7. Armies 8. Monumental architecture10
14686598091results of food surplus (agriculture)traits of civilization, increased population, increased urbanization11
14686566748what transformed human societies?agriculture and pastoralism12
14687623518religionsmonotheism (judaism), bedic13
14687636378written languagehieroglyphics (egyptian), cuneiform (sumerians), pictographs, alphabets14
14687645216New Technologycomposite bows, iron weapons, chariots, horse back riding15
14687651270monumental architectureziggurats, pyramids, temples, defensive walls (Jericho), roads, water systems16
14687655242law codescode of hammurabi (eye for an eye), ur-nammu17

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