Final Exam Study Guide #1 Flashcards
These are flash cards for the study guide.
Terms : Hide Images [1]
115778744 | Which regions did humans most recently inhabit? | australia | 0 | |
115778745 | What were the significant differences betweeen the San and the Chumash peoples? | the chumash were more advanced (ex: the tomol) | 1 | |
115778746 | What role did Paleolithic humans play in shaping their environment? | they domesticated plants and animals and manipulated their environment to their use | 2 | |
115778747 | In what ways may the last Ice Age have helped early gatherer-hunters? | createed a land bridge connnecting the 2 continents and making travel easier | 3 | |
115778748 | How did the lives of Paleolithic peoples compare? | they were hunter-gatherers and used agriculture | 4 | |
115778749 | Why is the Paleolithic period important? | it's how humans began to adapt to their environment and made use of surroundings and started migrating out of africa | 5 | |
115778750 | In what ways did agriculture develop seperately and independently? | andes, mesoamerica, mesopotamia | 6 | |
115778751 | In which regions were animals domesticated before crops? | northeast africa | 7 | |
115778752 | The end of the last Ice Age laid the foundation for the Agricultural Revolution by ... | creating a warmer, wetter, and more stable climate | 8 | |
115778753 | What was the greatest challenge to the esablishment of agriculture in the Americas as compared to Eurasia? | the lack of large mammals suitable for domestication in the Americas | 9 | |
115778754 | What distinguishes the development of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa? | only in sub-Saharan Africa did several widely scattered farming practices emerge | 10 | |
115778755 | What is diffusion? | gradual spread of the techniques of agriculture and perhaps the plants and animals themselves without the extensive movement of agricultural people | 11 | |
115778756 | The unique feature of the chiefdom that was replicated, elaborated, and assumed to be natural in all later states and civilizations was the distinction betweeen elite and commoner based on what? | birth | 12 | |
115778757 | What were the lives of early agricultural people like? | sometimes suffered from deadly diseases caught from domesticated animals | 13 | |
115778758 | What have the scholars adavanced as a possible explanation for the emergence of patriarchy in the First Civilizations? | the emergence of large-scale warfare with professionally led armies | 14 | |
115778759 | Waht constitutes historians' definition of "civilization"? | a human society that includes cities and states | 15 | |
115778760 | What were the elements of kingship in first civilizations? | often depended on he belief that the office of king was divinely ordained | 16 | |
115778761 | What provided the primary economic foundation for civilization? | agriculture | 17 | |
115778762 | what was a reason for instability in ancient mesopotamia? | rivalries between independent city-states | 18 | |
115778763 | What have scholars advanced as a possible explanation ofr the origins of the first civilizations? | the need to organize large-scale irrigation projects | 19 | |
115778764 | what were the features of egyptian rather than mesopotamian civilization? | a more cheerful and hopeful outlook on the world | 20 | |
115778765 | what were the features of persian political organization? | lower-level officials drawn from local authorities | 21 | |
115778766 | what was a unique feature of greek political life? | the idea of free people running the state | 22 | |
115778767 | What was the hellenistic era? | marked by a spread of greek culture into the lands of the persian empire | 23 | |
115778768 | what are the common features of an empire? | is usually formed through conquest and maintained through the extraction of resources from conquered states and peoples | 24 |