Unit1 before history ch.1 Flashcards
Ch. 1
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| 207785487 | Evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | 0 | |
| 207785488 | Paleolithic age | second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC, Old Stone Age | 1 | |
| 207785489 | Neolithic age | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere), New Stone Age | 2 | |
| 207785490 | Venus figurines | Small sculptures of women with exaggerated sexual features that displayed interest in fertility. | 3 | |
| 207785491 | Agricultural revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 4 | |
| 207785492 | Slash-and-burn agriculture | Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. | 5 | |
| 207785493 | Shanidar cave | Iraq- individual found with amputated arm, arthritis, & partially blind (Neandertal) Shows care for one another? | 6 | |
| 207785494 | Jomon society | Period of life in japan. It transitioned over many years from nomadic "hunters and gatherers" to settlements and farmers. | 7 | |
| 207785495 | Natufian society | One society that took permanent settlement during the Paleolithic times. Few others settled permanently during this time. The Natufians settled near modern Israel and Jordan. They settled permanently because of their large food source (wild buckwheat and fishing). | 8 | |
| 207785496 | Chinook society | A third society that settled permanently. They settled in the Pacific Northwest. They had sources of berries, acorns, and salmon. | 9 | |
| 207785497 | Austrolopithecus | Bipedal Apes who spent some time in trees and lived 1-4 million years ago | 10 | |
| 207785498 | Homo erectus | extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain | 11 | |
| 207785499 | Homo sapiens | the only surviving hominid, A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools. | 12 | |
| 207785500 | Homo sapiens sapiens | A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools. | 13 | |
| 207785501 | Neandertal | extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia | 14 | |
| 207785502 | Cro-magnon | more advanced than Neanderthals with better technology. | 15 | |
| 207785503 | Patriarchal society | male-dominated society | 16 |