AP World History terms -1 Flashcards

31138932	Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age	human beings learned simple tool use, mainly through employing suitably shaped rocks and sticks for hunting and warfare during most of the 2 million plus years when our species has existed; extends up until about 14,000 years ago.	0
31138933	Mesolithic Age, or Middle Stone Age	A span of several thousand years, from about 12,000 to 8000 B.C.E., in which human ability to fashion stone tools and other implements improved greatly.	1
31138934	Neolithic Revolution	Involved the development of agriculture and development of agriculture and occurred in different times in different places.	2
31138935	Prehistoric	Involved with human patterns before the invention of writing allowed the kinds of record-keeping historians prefer.	3
31138936	Metalworking	provided humans with tools and weapons far superior to any made of stone or wood.	4
31138937	Civilization	Used in two ways: first, to describe a society organized with cities, writing and a formal structure. Second, to describe a particular such society, e.g., Chinese civilization, that has distinctive, shared institutions and culture.	5
31138938	Catal Huyuk	A Neolithic village founded about 7000 B.C.E. that was unusually large, covering about 32 acres; has been elaborately studied by archeologists.	6
31138939	River-Valley Civilizations	The great civilizations were built on the achievements of these early human societies.	7
31138940	Tigris-Euphrates Civilization	The first civilization, developed absolutely from scratch- with no examples from any other place to imitate.	8
31138941	Sumerians	People who dominated Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions.	9
31138942	Egyptian Civilization	A second center of civilization in northern Africa along the Nile River, benefiting from the trade and technological influence of Mesopotamia, but developed a very different society and culture.	10
31138943	Pyramids	monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt: used as burial sites for pharaohs.	11
31138944	Indian river-valley Civilization	A prosperous urban civilization emerged along the Indus River by 2500 B.C.E., supporting several large cities whose houses even had running water.	12
31138945	Chinese river-valley Civilization	A society along the Yellow River in China that developed in considerable isolation with trade contact with India and the Middle East developing later.	13
31138946	The Shang Dynasty	A line of kings that ruled over the Yellow river-valley and that constructed some impressive tombs and palaces, by about 1500 B.C.E.	14
31138947	Jews	The most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern groups who gave the world the first clearly developed monotheistic religion.	15