Chp.1 From Human Pre-History to the Early Civilizations Flashcards

206695667	late paleolithic developments	homo sapien sapiens, no major changes in physique or brain size since, speech develops with home erectus, humans manipulate simple tools, erect stature, spread of human species across the world	0
206695668	how did people get their food in the paleolithic age?	hunting and gathering	1
206695669	what is the species of which all human descendants originated?	homo sapien sapiens	2
206695670	how many years ago was the paleolithic age?	14,000	3
206695671	where did homo sapien sapiens originate and when?	africa, 120,000 years ago	4
206695672	whats another name for the paleolithic age?	the old stone age	5
206695673	whats another name for the mesolithic age?	the middle stone age	6
206695674	when did the mesolithic age occur?	c.12,000 B.C.E.- c. 8,000 B.C.E.	7
206695675	during the mesolithic age there was an improvement in_____	tool and weapon making	8
206695676	which animals were domesticated during the mesolithic age?	sheep, cows, pigs, goats	9
206695677	advances in __________ led to a ____________ during the ___________ age	sailing and fishing, population growth, mesolithic	10
206695678	what was another name for the neolithic age?	the new stone age	11
206695679	the new stone age was a time of__________ and __________	agriculture and civilization	12
206695680	sedentary	staying in one place	13
206695681	characteristics of the neolithic revolution	"invention of agriculture," deliberate planting of grains for harvest, people settle permanently in one spot, populations increase, shift from hunting and gathering to farming, development in skilled crafts and sciences, pottery for storage, science of weather and flood patterns	14
206695682	effects of farming	requires more work, supports larger populations, increase in contagious diseases	15
206695683	c. 4,000 B.C.E. was the discovery of___	metals	16
206695684	the first metal discovered was __________	copper	17
206695685	c. 3,000 B.C.E. was called the	bronze age	18
206695686	during the bronze age there was more efficient ________	farming	19
206695687	slash and burn agriculture	burning trees in one area, farming intensely for a few years, and moving on when the soil depleted	20
206695688	tribal bands	groups of people with strong kinship ties and created long-lasting houses and wells	21
206695689	3500 B.C.E. civilization appeared along the _______ rivers	tigris and euphrates	22
206695690	3000 B.C.E. civilizations appeared along the ________ river	nile	23
206695691	2500 B.C.E. civilizations appeared along the _______ river	indus	24
206695692	civilization	societies with enough economic surplus to form divisions of labor and social hierarchy of inequality	25
206695693	cuneiform	system of writing wedge-like symbols that were developed in the middle east c.3500 B.C.E.	26
206695694	things to be recorded in civilizations	records, taxes, communication with others-trades and treaties	27
206695695	written history	history of civilization, not the history of nomads	28
206695696	nomads	groups of people who wander in search of food, shelter, protection, etc.	29
206695697	characteristics of tigris-euphrates civilization	mesopotamia-fertile crescent, home of world's first civilization, had no civilizations to imitate	30
206695698	items invented by the first civilization	bronze, copper, the wheel, pottery, irrigation, art, religion	31
206695699	sumer is the______________	civilization along the persian gulf	32
206695700	sumer accomplishments...	complex agricultural society, mathematics and astronomy, system of numbers (10, 60, 360)	33
206695701	ziggurats	pyramid-shaped religious temples	34
206695702	animistic	gods of nature-river, earth, sun, sky etc.	35