AP World History Chapter 1 Flashcards

550383860	14,000 B.C.E.	End of Great Ice Age	0
550383861	6,000 B.C.E.	First potter's wheel.	1
550383862	10,000-5,000 B.C.E.	era of Neolithic revolution	2
550383863	7,000 B.C.E.	rise of Catal Huyuk	3
550383864	4,000 B.C.E.	transition to use of bronze	4
550383865	2,000 B.C.E.	agricultural development reaches west Africa	5
550383866	hunting and gathering	The process of living that involves hunting for meat, gathering edible produce, and traveling frequently.	6
550383867	Neolithic Age	The New stone age which went from about 8000 B.C to 3000 B.C. People who lived during this learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals.	7
550383868	culture	the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization	8
550383869	band	an unofficial association of people or groups	9
550383870	matrilocal	refers to the pattern in which married couples live with or near the wives' parents	10
550383871	Catal Huyuk	One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions	11
550383872	Bronze Age	a period of human culture between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, characterized by the use of weapons and implements made of bronze	12
550383873	slash and burn agriculture	a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land	13
550383874	Hammurabi	king of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law.	14
550383875	Indo-Europeans	Series of tribes from southern Russia who, over a period of millennia, embarked on a series of migrations from India through western Europe; their greatest legacy was the broad distribution of Indo-European languages throughout Eurasia.	15
550383876	civilization	a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)	16
550383877	nomads	people with no permanent home; move from place to place in search of food,	17
550383878	Homo sapiens	A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools.	18
550383879	agrarian revolution	occurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture	19
550383880	matrilineal	based on or tracing descent through the female line	20
550383881	Neolithic revolution	the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC	21
550383882	domestication	the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food	22
550383883	Babylonians	an ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley. It flourished under Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II but declined after 562 B.C. and fell to the Persians in 539.	23
550383884	Harappa	Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation , and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.	24
550383885	Mesopotamia	first civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture	25
550383886	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	26
550383887	savage	a member of an uncivilized people	27
550383888	Neanderthals	type of Homo sapiens; lived from 100,000 BC to 30,000 BC; made tools and animal skin clothes; first people to bury the dead	28
550383889	Natufian complex	Preagriculture culture; located in present-day Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon; practiced the collection of naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game; typified by large settlement sites.	29
550383890	pastoralism	A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter.	30
550383891	Jericho	Oldest Neolithic community in the West Bank between Israel and Jordan	31
550383892	social differentiation	A process in which people are set apart for differential treatment by virtue of their statuses, roles, and other social characteristics	32
550383893	ideographs	pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing	33
550383894	Shang dynasty	the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC	34