AP World History List 1A Flashcards

79671960	civilization	cities as administrative centers, a political system based on defined territory rather than kinship, many people engaged in specialized, non-food producing activities	0
79671961	culture	material objects such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts, along with nonmaterial values, beliefs, and languages	1
79671962	history	the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events are the subject of history	2
79671963	Stone Age	an age of tool making using stone, bone, skin, and wood materials that survive poorly	3
79671964	Paleolithic	a subdivision of the Stone Age (Old Stone Age), 3,000 years after ice age	4
79671965	Neolithic	(New Stone Age), agricultural revolutions	5
79671966	foragers	hunting and food-gathering peoples	6
79671967	Agricultural Revolutions	the changover from food gathering to food producing in the Neolithic Age which included the domestication of animals	7
79671968	Megalith	a large prehistoric stone monument	8
79671969	fallow	left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season	9
79671970	lineage	line of descent	10
79671971	pastoralists	nomads who kept herds of livestock on which they depended for most of their food	11
79671972	Swidden Agriculture	also called slash and burn agriculture. a form of cultivation in which forrested or brushy plots are cleared of vegetation burned then planted to crops only to be abandoned a few years later when soil fertility declines	12
79671973	matrilineal	when a society traces lineage solely on the mother's side	13
79671974	patrilineal	when a society traces lineage solely on the father's side	14