AP World: Chapter 1 Before History Flashcards

World and Encounters 4th edition
Cerritos High School student

198406536	Austrolopithecus	"Southern ape," oldest known ancestor of humans; it lived from around four million down to around one million years ago, and it could walk on hind legs, freeing up hands for use of simple tools.	0
198394805	Catal Huyuk	Important Neolithic settlement in Anatolia (7250--6150 B.C.E.).	1
198394806	Chinook	Permanent Paleolithic settlement in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.	2
198394807	Cro-Magnon	Homo sapiens sapiens, who appeared forty thousand years ago during the Paleolithic age and were the first human beings of the modern type.	3
198406535	History	Era after the invention of writing	4
198394808	Hominids	A creature belonging to the family Hominidae, which includes human and humanlike species.	5
198394809	Homo erectus	"Upright-walking human," which existed from 1.5 million to two hundred thousand years ago; Homo erectus used cleavers and hand axes and learned how to control fire.	6
198394810	Homo sapiens	"Consciously thinking human," which first appeared around two hundred fifty thousand years ago and used sophisticated tools.	7
198394811	Homo sapiens sapiens	First human being of the modern type, which appeared roughly one hundred thousand years ago; Cro-Magnon falls into this category.	8
198394812	Jericho	Earliest known Neolithic village.	9
198394813	Jomon	Paleolithic settlement located in central Japan.	10
198394814	Natufians	Permanent Paleolithic settlement in the eastern Mediterranean.	11
198394815	Neanderthal	Early humans (100,000 to 35,000 years ago) who were prevalent during the Paleolithic period.	12
198394816	Paleolithic	Old Stone Age, a long period of human development before the development of agriculture.	13
198394817	Prehistory	The period before the invention of writing.	14
198394818	Venus figurines	Small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features.	15