AP World History Unit 1 Terms Flashcards

126840957	Paleolithic Age	Old Stone Age, which runs until about 14,000 years ago. simple tool use. more erect stature and growing brain capacity	0
126840958	Homo Sapiens	The human species of man that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period.	1
126840959	Neolithic Age	The new stone age, between 8000-5000 BCE period in which adaptations of sedentary agriculture occured: domestication of plants and animals accomplished	2
126840960	Patriarchal Society	societies in which women differ to men, societies run by men and based on the assumption that men naturally direct political, economic, and cultural life	3
126840961	Neolithic Revolution	the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC	4
126840962	Civilization	1-a society organized with cities, writing and a formal structure 2-a particular such society i.e. Chinese Civilization, that has distinctive, shared institutions and culture. Both uses of the term generate debate	5
126840963	speciaization	labor that is divided into different parts. some people do one job while others do a different one	6
126840964	Jericho & Catal Huyuk	most prominent neolithic villages In Catal Hayuk- distinctions based on social class and wealth increased	7
126840965	Mesopotamia	literally "between the rivers" the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys	8
126840966	Sumer	A group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia.	9
126840967	Cuneiform	Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets	10
126840968	Polytheism	believing in many gods-usually seen in aspects of nature	11
126840969	Hammurabi's Code	A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes and punishments to help judges impose penalties.	12
126840970	Hieroglyphics	an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds	13
126840971	Hatshepsut	Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. (p.66)	14