79671960 | civilization | cities as administrative centers, a political system based on defined territory rather than kinship, many people engaged in specialized, non-food producing activities | 0 | |
79671961 | culture | material objects such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts, along with nonmaterial values, beliefs, and languages | 1 | |
79671962 | history | the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events are the subject of history | 2 | |
79671963 | Stone Age | an age of tool making using stone, bone, skin, and wood materials that survive poorly | 3 | |
79671964 | Paleolithic | a subdivision of the Stone Age (Old Stone Age), 3,000 years after ice age | 4 | |
79671965 | Neolithic | (New Stone Age), agricultural revolutions | 5 | |
79671966 | foragers | hunting and food-gathering peoples | 6 | |
79671967 | Agricultural Revolutions | the changover from food gathering to food producing in the Neolithic Age which included the domestication of animals | 7 | |
79671968 | Megalith | a large prehistoric stone monument | 8 | |
79671969 | fallow | left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season | 9 | |
79671970 | lineage | line of descent | 10 | |
79671971 | pastoralists | nomads who kept herds of livestock on which they depended for most of their food | 11 | |
79671972 | Swidden Agriculture | also 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 declines | 12 | |
79671973 | matrilineal | when a society traces lineage solely on the mother's side | 13 | |
79671974 | patrilineal | when a society traces lineage solely on the father's side | 14 |
AP World History List 1A Flashcards
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