AP World - Ch. 1 Flashcards

From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations

286290195	Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)	most of 2+ milllion yrs. in human existence	0
286290196	homo sapien sapiens	ancestor of us humans today; first appeared in Paleolithic Age	1
286290197	Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)	12,000-8000 BCE	2
286290198	Neolithic (New Stone) Age What happened during it?	8000-5000 BCE; adaption of sedentary agriculture, domesticated plants and animals	3
286290199	Neolithic Revolution What is it?	8500-3500 BCE; succession of technological innovations and changes in human organization -> development of agriculture	4
286290200	Bronze Age When was it?	3000 BCE	5
286290201	slash and burn agriculture	burn trees in area, farm until soil gone, then move on	6
286290202	what is a band (no, not the musical kind)	tribes w/ strong kinships	7
286290203	What was Catal Huyuk	ancient city founded in 7000 BCE; studied by archaeologists	8
286290204	cuneiform	writing w/ wedge-like characters	9
286290205	Mesopotamia	land between Tigris and Euphrates river	10
286290206	Sumerians	5000 BCe; created first civilization within region; organized area into city-states	11
286290207	polytheism	belief in many gods	12
286290208	Hammurabi	leader of Babylonians; made first code of law	13
286290209	Babylonian Empire	unified all of Mesopotamia c. 1800 BCE; collapsed because of foreign invasion c. 1600 BCE	14
286290210	pharoah	king of Egyptians; had immense power, was godlike, with pyramids as tombs	15
286290211	Harappa; Mohenjo Daro	ancient civ. near Indus river; had unique writing and art	16
286290212	Huanghe(Yellow River)	civilization near Yellow River in China	17
286290213	Phoenicians	civ. in Mesopotamia; 1300 BCE; created 22-letter alphabet	18
286290214	Jews	morally/ethically based monotheistic religion god = Jehovah	19