Ap World History Flashcards

2806982692	Austronesian migrations	The last phase of the great human migration that established human presence in every habitable region on Earth	0
2806982693	Austronesian	People who settled in the Pacific Islands ans Madagascarin a series of seabourne migrations	1
2806982694	Brotherhood of the Tomol	A prestigious craft guild that monopolized the building and ownership of large oceangoing canoes or tomols among the Chumash people	2
2806982695	Chumash culture	Paleolithic culture of southern California that syrvived until the modern era	3
2806982696	Clovis culture	The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America. Named from the Clovis point, a projectile point.	4
2806982697	Dreamtime	A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestoral happenings.	5
2806982698	Flores man	Recently discover hominid species of Indonesia	6
2806982699	Gathering and hunting people	People who lived by collecting food rather than producing it.	7
2806982700	Great goddess	A believed dominant deity of the Paleolithic era	8
2806982701	Hadza	People of northern Tanzania, almost last surviving Paleolithic society.	9
2806982702	Human revolution	Used to describe the transition of humans from acting out of biological imperative to dependance on learned or invented ways	10
2806982703	Ice Age	Any number of cold periods in the Earth's history, last Ice Age about 20,000 year ago	11
2806982704	Insulting the meat	A San cultural practice meant to deflate pride that involved negative comments about the meat brought in by a hunter.	12
2807069644	Jomon culture	A settled Paleolithic culture of prehistoric Japan, characterized by seaside villages and creation of early pottery	13
2807488463	Megafunal extinction	Dying out of a number of large animal species and several species of horses and camels.	14
2807488464	Neanderthals	A European variant of Homo sapiens that died out about 25,000 years ago	15
2807488465	N/um	Among the San, a spiritual potency that becomes activated during curing dances and protects humans from the malevolent forces of gods and ancestral spirits.	16
2807488466	The original affluen society	Coined by scholar Marshall Sahlins in 1972, describing Paleolithic societies wanted or needed so little	17
2807488467	Paleolithic	"Stone Age" descirbes early Homo Sapeins societies before the development of agriculture	18
2807488468	Paleolithic rock art	Describe the hundreds of paintings discovered in Spain and France, dating about 20,000 gears ago.	19
2807488469	Paleolithic "settling down"	Some settlements settled down after the Ice Age. Described as increase in food and goods and growing inequalities in society.	20
2807488470	San or Ju/'hoansi	Paleolithic people still living on the northern fringe of the Kalahari desert.	21
2807488471	Shaman	A person who is believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces. By traces induced by psychoactive drugs.	22
2807488472	Trance dance	In San culture, a nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors	23
2807488473	Venus figures	Paleolithic carvings of the female form	24