Chapter 1 Flashcards
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79257244 | Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age | The Old Stone age ending in 12,000 B.C.E: typified by use crude tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence. | 0 | |
79257245 | Homo sapiens | The human species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period. | 1 | |
79257246 | Neolithic (New Age) Age | The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occured; demestication of plants and animals accomplished. | 2 | |
79257247 | Neolithic Revolution | The succession of technological innovations and changes of human organization that led to the development of agriculture, 8500-3500 B.C.E. | 3 | |
79257248 | hunting & gathering | means of obtaining subsistence by human species prior to the adaptation of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of band social. | 4 | |
79257249 | Bronze Age | From about 4000 B.C.E., when bronze tools where first introduced in the Middle East, to about 1500 B.C.E., when iron began to replace it. | 5 | |
79257250 | slash and burn agriculture | a system of civilization | 6 |