AP World History Flashcards Flashcards

4115082386	Histography	The study of the way historians write history; the history of History	0
4115082387	Periodization	The division of History into periods based on conditions such as geographical components increase and decrease in contacts across regions and an emergence of parallel Development Across the world	1
4115082388	Albert Einstein theory of relativity	A theory that states that time space and mass are relative to each other and not fixed	2
4115082389	Polio vaccine	A vaccine made to prevent polio outbreaks in mid to late 1900's	3
4115082390	Artificial heart	Heart transplant of a fake heart; the first transplant sparked the public debate on its capabilities	4
4115082391	Fossil Fuels	Coal, diesel, gasoline and petroleum	5
4115082392	Nuclear Power	In the 1950s, in West and Soviet Union atomic energy was promoted as the best energy source but it lost its place	6
4115082393	Green Revolution	A period whrn productivity and global agriculture increased drastically as a result of new advances	7
4115082394	High Yield Crops	Crops that are specifically designed to produce more overall yield	8
4115082395	Multiple Cropping	When a field is used to grow two or more crops throughout the year that way the field has something growing constantly	9
4164001114	Artifacts	Objects made by people in the past	10
4164001115	Homo sapiens sapiens	Modern Humans	11
4164001116	Hunter-forager	humans that survived by hunting animals and foraging seeds, nuts, fruits, and edible roots	12
4164001117	Paleolithic Period	began 2.5 million years ago and ended about 10000 years ago	13
4164001118	kinship group	several related families that moved together in search of food	14
4164001119	clan	larger group of relatives	15
4164001120	tribe	multiple clans combined into still larger units	16
4164001121	patriarchal	society dominated by men	17
4164001122	animism	the belief that animals, rivers, and other elements of nature embody spirits	18
4164001123	shaman	people believed to have special abilities to cure the sick and influence the future	19
4164042796	Neolithic Revolution	a set of dramatic changes in how people lived based on the development of agriculture	20
4164042797	Agriculture	the practice of raising crops or livestock on a continual and controlled basis	21
4164042798	Surplus	more than some cultures needed for themselves	22
4164042799	domestication	people taming wild animals so they could be brought up to live with humans	23
4164042800	nomadic pastoralism	people moving herds of animals from pasture to pasture	24
4164042801	artisans	people who made objects people needed	25
4164042802	merchants	people who buy and sell goods for a living	26
4164042803	specialization of labor	this process of allowing people to focus on limited tasks	27
4164042804	social stratification	some people accumulated wealth in the form of jewelry and other coveted items and by building larger and better decorated houses	28
4164042805	Jericho	built on the west bank of the Jordan River	29
4164042806	Catal Huyuk	present day Turkey	30