Survey of World History Module 1 Flashcards

4711884630	BP	Before Present - Ancient, no exact date	0
4711885939	BCE	Before Common Era - Earlier than 2,000 years ago.	1
4711891913	CE	Common Era - After 2,000 years ago.	2
4711900133	When compared with modern humans, Australopithecus was considered...	thinner.	3
4711902679	Overall knowledge of prehistory is...	incomplete.	4
4711905161	What is essential to calling a civilization or time period "historical"?	The presence of writing and record keeping.	5
4711907041	Prehistoric periods are usually marked with the time label:	BP	6
4711909541	Writing and record-keeping are an important characteristic that defines a "complex civilization".	True	7
4711911959	Paleolithic Era (aka):	Old Stone Age	8
4711913361	Home erectus	-1.5 BP - 200,000 BP -gathered plants -cooperative hunting -learned to cook meat	9
4711915663	Longest running time period in history	Paleolithic starting in 2.2 million BP ending about 12,000 BP	10
4711919856	Homo sapiens	-evolved around 250,000 BP -relatively intelligent -Tools -language skills -Eastern Africa	11
4711925590	Neanderthals	-Between 200,000 and 50,000 BP -Europe and SW Asia, Africa & E Asia -Everywhere but the Americas by 80,000 BP -Clothes from animal skins -First evidence of reflective thought - flowers at graves	12
4711973551	Which of the following hominids were first to migrate out of Africa?	Homo erectus	13
4711974310	Cro-Magnon	-Appeared around 100,000 BP -better organization -Slowly displace Neanderthals by killing or inter-breeding. -By 40,000 BP had largely replaced Neanderthals -Group hunting more complex -rudiments of social order -tools more sophisticated -visual representation of thought as cave paintings	14
4711984215	Migration	-100,000 BP, humans began to spread out of Africa to tropical & temperate zones of Eastern Hemisphere. -60,000 BP crossed into ice-age Australia -40,000 BP Cro-Magnon were in Europe, & across ice-age land bridge into North America -20,000 BP modern humans in Mesoamerica (modern-day Mexico) -13,000 BP furthest south in South America, at this point humans lived on all continents excepts Antarctica	15
4712009890	Culture	Practices, materials, & ideas such as gender roles.	16
4712016449	Agricultural Evolution	Between 12,000 & 6,000 BP humans began to cultivate plants and domesticate animals to raise their own food. -Worldwide phenomenon -Caused first large scale settlements.	17
4712047524	Chain of Exploitation	1.Powerful elite that exploited other men/women. 2.Who in turn exploited the farmers 3.Who exploited the natural environment.	18
4712053191	First Towns and Cities	Between 4,000 and 3,500 BCE, mostly professionals and elites. tradesmen, managers, artists, cultural professionals.	19