AP World Prehistory Vocab Flashcards

Ms. Parker

78968473	Prehistory	the period before the invention of writing	0
78968474	History	branch of knowledge dealing with past events (after writing began)	1
78968475	Paleolithic	Old Stone Age, a long period of human development before the development of agriculture	2
78968476	Neolithic	New Stone Age (10,000-4,000 B.C.E.), which was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture	3
78968477	Domestication	to convert things to domestic uses, tame	4
78968478	Specialization	to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.	5
78968479	Egalitarian	asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social life	6
78968480	Complex Society	a social formation that is otherwise described as a formative or developed state	7
78968481	Metallurgy	the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties	8
78968482	Pastoralism	A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.	9
78968483	Savannah	a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions	10
78968484	Nomadic	(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently	11
78968485	Civilization	a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)	12
78968486	Ethnocentrism	belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group	13
78968487	Foraging	the act of searching for food and provisions	14
78968488	Shifting Cultivation	A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.	15
78968489	Slash-and-burn agriculture	consists of cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields for agriculture or pasture for livestock, or for a variety of other purposes. It is sometimes part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding.	16
78968490	Gender division of labor	Labor divided between man and woman, hunting and gathering etc.	17
78968491	Obsidian	black volcanic rock	18
78968492	Barter	an exchange in trade; to exchange goods	19