WHAP Book Chapter 1 Flashcards

Covers the Sterns book chapter 1.

86775270	Paleolithic	second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC	0
86775271	Paleolithic Achievements	Stone tools Speech Cave paintings Fire Clothing Spread of people over earth Equality b/w sexes	1
86775272	Paleolithic Drawbacks	Small hunter-gatherer tribes	2
86775273	Homo sapiens sapiens	the current human, that wiped out all other species.	3
86775274	Mesolithic	Middle stone age, 12,000-8,000 b.c.e	4
86775275	Mesolithic achievements	Animal bone/stone tools canoes food storage Pop growth animal domestication	5
86775276	Neolithic Era	Farming Started	6
86775277	Why Agrc. devs.	1. Pop increases b/c no ice age 2. Loss of large game animals	7
86775278	Animal Domestication	Occurs 9000 B.C. in the middle east and China	8
86775279	Where farming devs.	Starts in Middle East (Iraq-Turkey-Syria), and then goes to All of world.	9
86775280	Agrg Pro/Con	Slow rev. Intensive labor Pro: FACILITATED SETTLED LIFE, new need-based inventions,	10
86775281	Acceptance of Agrc.	Polarized. Hunters resisted long as they could Agrc. brought new diseases Today, hunter/gatherer still exist, but 99% of societies are agricultural	11
86775282	"prehistorical"	Neolitihic Era and before it.	12
86775283	Metal Tools	Discovered after Agrc. Rev. Started in middle east with Copper 3000 years ago	13
86775284	Benefits of metal tools	Efficient, better weaponry, FUNCTIONAL SPECIALIZATION BEGINS	14
86775285	Civilization	Result of Agrc. stimulating more settled communitites.	15
86775286	Slash and Burn Agrc.	Burn an area of trees, farm that land intensively, and move on. A safety net rather than 100% settled Agrc.	16
86775287	Advantages of settlement	Irrigation, stability, food, and defense	17
86775288	Catal Huyuk	Turkey Village= Mud/timber homes Religious icons Took over and traded with other cities Ate all porduced goods	18
86775289	Origin of Civilization	1.Middle East 2. Egypt 3. Indus 4. China 5. Central America	19
86775290	Civilzation	Societies with economic surplus to form divisions of labor, and a social heirarchy with signifigant inequalities Comes from latin word "civ" for city	20
86775291	Trait of a Civ.	Political System Forming Cities Writing Systems Civs. also establish male heirarchies	21
86775292	Effects of a Civ.	Technologic innovation New political systems Interction and Destruction of environment (Ex: Danube)	22
86775293	Location of a civ.	Near rivver valley developed large population densities	23
87085091	1st Civ.	Tigris-Euphrates	24
87085092	Tigris Euphrates Civ. info	Developed from Scratch Bronze Copper Wheel Pottery Complex Farming	25
87085093	Cunieform	First lang. Invented by Sumerians, geometric/pictures=sounds	26
87085094	T/E culuture	Pictures of Gods everywhere Astronomy Math (10/30/360 time system) Abstract writing	27
87085095	Sumerian Religion	1 city had a patron god Many powerful gods, heaven and hell, divine force Influence monotheism	28
87085096	Ziggurat	Priest temple=huge	29
87085097	T/E politics	City-states ruled under a king, who came from military, and ruled under divine power	30
87085098	T/E slavery	Could buy freedom Slaves came from war.	31
87085099	T/E econ.	Coins Trade	32
87085100	T/E downfall	Hard to defend borders. Fell to Akaadians, who continued culture Babylon takes over EVERYTHING, and unites law code Indo Europeans take over (Semites influence all things) Persians tae over	33
87085101	Hammurabi's law	Babylonian law code= First law code	34
87085102	Egyptian Civ.	2nd civilization	35
87085103	Egypt Civ. Traits	Trade and Tech God-King Gov. Unified and Expanded up Nile Invaded by Kush	36
87085104	Egypt Civ. Culture	Top arts and Math 24 hour day Influential Architecture	37
87085105	Indian Civ.	Harappa and Mojenjo Daro along Indus-River valley	38
87085106	Indian Trade	Mesoptamia	39
87085107	Indian Downfall	Indo-europeans destroy them, but civ. never has to be completely reinvented	40
87085108	Chinese (Hwang-He Civ.) Trade	Isolated, but traded minorly with other civs.	41
87085109	P'an Ku	Mythic ancestor whcih ancient chinese said was their creation myth	42
87085110	Dev. of Chinese Civ.	1. Organize state takes control of flood valley 2. High tech/intellect (horses, pottery, bronze, iron, coal)	43
87085111	Hunag he culture	Ideography started from bone scratches Astronomy Delicate Art No big monuments b/c of lack of building materials	44
87085112	Chinese Civ. Politics	Shng rule, build few palaces Stopped b/c of invasion, but still built future civ on past stuff.	45
87085113	Decline of all Civs.	1000 B.C. India cant start new civ by foundation China had a dynastic cycle	46
87085114	Mesopatamina fall effect	Smaller regional tribes that outlasted and spread past the original empire	47
87085115	Phonecians	Later sumericans that created alphabet	48
87085116	Lydians	Introduced coined money	49
87085117	Jews and Judaism	Semite people An Abstract, non-converting, Monotheistic faith (First monotheists)	50