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AP World History - Stearns
Chapter 1 – From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations
I. Introduction
A. Human origin – 2.5 million years ago
1. 1/4000 of earth’s existence – 24 hour day – last 5 minutes
B. Human negatives and positives
1. Aggressiveness, long baby time, back problems, death fears
2. Grip, high/regular sex drive, omnivores, facial expressions, speech
C. Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age – 2.5 million to 12000 BCE
1. Simple tools – increase in size, brain capacity – Homo erectus
AP world history chapter 1
Geography labeled on map
Historical terms:
Complex Society
Paleolithic ? settlements began, hunting and gathering started, social distinctions not based on wealth
Venus figures- named after roman goddess of love, small sculptures of woman, exaggerated sexual features.
social class; social structures ? people getting classes based of trades and job in the societies, had a base in Neolithic settlements
hominid- creatures that walked upright on two feat
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read them and practice them over and over again
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Period 3 Timeline
600 - 1450
618 ? 907 Tang China
622: Origin of Islam, life of Muhammad
600s ? 700s: Spread of Islam into Arabia, Middle East N. Africa
750 ? 1236:
Abbasid Caliphate
661-750: Ummayad Caliphate
855: Kievan Russia
1100s -1200s: Crusades
1054: Schism of Christianity into East & West
1200s ? 1300s: Mongol Conquests & Pax Mongolica
1000: Ghana at its Height
1200: Rise of Mali
1290: Islam reaches SE Asia
960-1127: Song China
1325: Rise of Aztecs
Endergonic and exergonic | Back to Top
Energy releasing processes, ones that "generate" energy, are termed exergonic reactions. Reactions that require energy to initiate the reaction are known as endergonic reactions. All natural processes tend to proceed in such a direction that the disorder or randomness of the universe increases (the second law of thermodynamics).
The Mongols were a peoples who took over and dominated several civilizations, and affected them in different ways. By looking at a few of these places, there are usually many substantial similarities and differences in how the Mongols affected them. China and Russia are two examples of these dominated civilizations. When politically and economically compared, these similarities and differences are easy to find.
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Joseph Addison: Ridicule
Ridicule and humor is something we inherited and grew upon since birth, and the fact is
that we would laugh at anything that we deemed as funny. But is a good deed something we can
laugh at? Joseph Addison argues against an everyday virtue, or more specifically, human nature.
He take?s this issue head-on, and shows us how most jokes are not just there to ease the tension,
Linking Expressions/Transitional Phrases
Use Linking expressions to show how ideas are related and make a paragraph or essay read smoothly.
Linking expressions are words or phrases that show relationship between ideas, details and examples in a paragraph. Such expressions tie together sentences, showing how one idea is related to the one that comes before it, or after it. As you learn to use these expressions, remember that each expression is appropriate for a particular kind of relationship.
I. Joining similar ideas:
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