AP world History Unit 2 Flashcards

225252183	Women played a major role in the trasition to crop cultivation because	they were the primary gatherers of wild plant foods	0
225252184	swidden agriculture is a term that describes	a practice of shifting cultivation to new fields	1
225252185	The earliest transition to agriculture was	in the middle east	2
225252186	Scholars feel that early domestication of animals provided all of the following except	trasportation	3
225252187	Metal working in the late Neolithic period waas used for	decoration or in ceremonies	4
225252188	The Neolithic town Catal huyuk prospered from	long distance trade in obsidon, pottery, and cloth	5
225252189	Recent discoveries of Large stones and burial chambers may indicate	ancestor rituals	6
225252190	the religions of farming communites tended to focus on	an Earth Mother or female deity.	7
225252191	The gradual adoption of agriculture transformed the world most by causing	global population increase	8
225252192	The American continents contained very few domesticated animals because	there were few species suitable for domestication	9
225252193	The Mesopotamians develped skill in bronze metallurgy. Which of the following is not considered an advantage to bronze over other metals	it is inexpensive	10
225252194	Creation myths often provide a society with a	satisfactory explanation of its environment	11
225252195	the term city-state refers to	an urban center and the agricultural hinterlands it controlled	12
225252196	The Mesopotamian writing system is called	cuneiform	13
225252197	What motivated Mesopotamian conquests of far-reaching territories	the need for vital resources	14
225252198	Surprisingly, merchant activity in Mesopotamia took place without	coins	15
225252199	Women in Mesopotamian society had a lower status than in a hunter-gatherer society because of	jhg	16