AP World History Summer Terminology Flashcards

4740055478	Paleolothic Age	Pertaining to the early stone age, marked by stone tools and later bone and antler artifacts, usually divided into 3 periods	0
4740055479	Homo sapiens	The modern human	1
4740055480	Neolithic revolution	Major turning point in human history, humans began to cultivate crops and domesticate animals	2
4740055481	Venus figurines	Umbrella term for various types of prehistoric statues of women	3
4740055482	Dreamtime	(In the mythology of some Australian Aborigines) the 'golden age' when the first ancestors were created	4
4740055483	Slash and burn agriculture	Where wild/forest land is clear cut and any remaining is burned in the effort to create more land for farming	5
4740055484	Tribal bands	Tattoos that designate a person as part of a particular tribe	6
4740055485	Çatal Hüyük	A very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in Southern Anatolia	7
4740055486	Nomads	A group of people with no permanent home, people who travel to find fresh pasture for livestock	8
4740055487	Megafaunal extinction	A well-known mass extinction of megafauna, occurred at the end of the last ice age glacial period	9
4740055488	Austronesian migrations	Theories that pre-austronesian-speaking peoples migrated from 10000 BC -> 6000 BC	10
4740055489	'The original affluent society' (p. 22)	Contemporary Paleolithic societies that consisted of hunting/gathering peoples	11
4740055490	Shamans	Persons regarded ass having access to, and influence in, the world of evil spirits	12
4740055491	Trance dance	The practice of dancing to the beat of a tribal drum, allowing the dancer to 'let go' and thereby reach a state of ecstasy	13
4740055492	Göbekli Tepe	An archaeological site at the top of a mountain ridge in SE Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey	14
4740055493	Fertile Crescent	A crescent-shaped region containing comparatively moist and fertile land	15
4740055494	Teosinte	The common name for a group of four annual and perennial species of the genus ZEA native to Mexico and Central America	16
4740055495	Bantu Migration	A series of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo to present day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania	17
4740055496	Ishi	The last member of the Yahi tribe	18
4740055497	Banpo	An archaeological site discovered in 1933 and located in the Yellow River Valley just east of Xi'an, China	19
4740055498	'Secondary products revolution' (p. 41)	A further set of technological changes, beginning around 4000 BC	20
4740055499	Pastoral societies	A social group of pastoralists, typically nomadic	21
4740055500	Chiefdoms	A form of hierarchical organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship	22
4740055501	Culture	The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively	23
4740055502	Civilization	The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced	24
4740055503	Norte Chico/Caral	A large settlement in the Supe Valley in Peru	25
4740055504	Indus Valley Civilizations	Bronze Age Civilizations mainly in the NW South Asia Region	26
4740055505	Central Asian/Oxus civilizations	Bronze Age civilizations dated back to 2300-1700 BC in Central Asia	27
4740055506	Olmec civilizations	The first major civilizations in Mexico	28
4740055507	Uruk	An ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, east of the Euphrates River	29
4740055508	Epic of Gilgamesh	An epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia	30
4740187523	Mohenjo Daro/Harappa	An archaeological site in Punjab	31
4740187524	Code of Hammurabi	A well-preserved Babylonian law code	32
4740187525	Patriarchy	A system of society/government in which the father/eldest male is head of the family	33
4740187526	Rise of the state	A process of centralization in the historical region of Sourthern Mesopotamia	34
4740187527	Paneb	A chief-workman at Deir el-Medina that was accused of numerous crimes	35
4740187528	Nubia	A region along the Nile River that was one of the earliest civilizations of NE Africa	36