ap world history chapter 1 Flashcards

196961645	austronesian migrations	The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. Austronesian-speaking people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago. (pron. aws-troe-NEEZH-an)	0
196961646	clovis culture	the Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America	1
196961647	hunter-gatherers (gathering and hunting peoples)	people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive	2
196961648	human revolution	a rapid expansion 50,000 years ago of Homo sapiens within and out of Africa. These modern hominids created art, practiced ritual burials, and displayed other indications of sophisticated	3
196961649	Jomon culture	Created by early migrants to Japan after 3,000 BCE; hunting-and-gathering people, produced distinctive pottery form.	4
196961650	n/um	(!kung) A non-violent healing principal that involves the massaging of one another for their well being. "Intimate" This levels and empowers everyone in the society.	5
196961651	paleolithic	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	6
196961652	paleolithic settling	A revolution in farming and the forming of civilizations	7
196961653	trance dance	communal rituals structured around rhythmic movements of the body, everyone has a well defined role to help the dancer reach, perform, and return from a trance.	8
196961654	brotherhood of the Tomol	A prestigious craft guild that monopolized the building and ownership of large oceangoing canoes, or tomols (pron. toe-mole), among the Chumash people (located in what is now southern California).	9
196961655	dreamtime	The time in the Aboriginal belief system when all living things were created	10
196961656	great goddess	Mother Earth: needed and worshipped for: 1. fertility of humans 2. fertility of crops 3. fertility of domesticated animals Belief emerges in Paleolithic age.	11
196961657	Ice Age	any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface	12
196961658	megafaunal extinction	Dying out of a number of large animal species, including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels, that occurred around 11,000-10,000 years ago, at the end of the Ice Age. The extinction may have been caused by excessive hunting or by the changing climate of the era. (pron. meg-ah-FAWN-al)	13
196961659	original affluent society	Marshall Sahlins; scarcity has been banished not by boosting production, but by reducing economic wants to minimum ~~ Hunter Gatherer ppt.	14
196961660	paleolithic rock art	Often represents aspects from outer life in the form of animals and hunters, usually are combined parts of humans and animals.	15
196961661	ju/hoansi	foragers, hunter/gatherer. africa	16
196961662	Venus figurines	small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features	17
196961663	Chumash culture	Paleolithic culture of southern California that survived until the modern era.	18
196961664	Flores man	A recently discovered hominid species of Indonesia.	19
196961665	Hadza	A people of northern Tanzania, almost the last surviving Paleolithic society.	20
196961666	insulting the meat	A San cultural practice meant to deflate pride that involved negative comments about the meat brought in by a hunter and the expectation that a successful hunter would disparage his own kill.	21
196961667	Neanderthals	In Europe, another human species lived and adapted to life in the cold climates of the last Ice Age.	22
196961668	shaman	in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds	23