AP world history Flashcards

7338479718	Austronesian migrations	: The last phase of the great human migration that established a human population in every habitable places	0
7338501073	Bantu migration	The Bantu people spread from their homeland	1
7338580042	Çatalhüyük	Neolithic site in what is now turkey	2
7338589665	Chiefdom	A grouping of people governed by a Chief	3
7338595646	Clovis culture	Widespread distinctive native american population.	4
7338603097	diffusion	spread of agricultural techniques	5
7338606080	Dreamtime	Complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people	6
7338609802	Fertile Crescent	Region known as southwest Asia	7
7338611314	Göbekli Tepe	A ceremonial site	8
7338613415	megafaunal extinction	Dying out of a number of large animal species, including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels	9
7338615709	"the original affluent society"	Paleolithic sites	10
7338617396	Paleolithic settling down	Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement	11
7338619360	pastoral society	human society that relies on domesticated animals	12
7338622385	"secondary products revolution"	technological changes that began ca. 4000 B.C.E.	13
7338625093	shaman	person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces	14
7338626603	stateless societies	Village-based agricultural society	15
7338628247	teosinte	The wild ancestor of maize	16
7338630463	trance dance	nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency	17
7338632794	Venus figurines	Paleolithic carvings of the female form	18
7338650715	Bipedalism	form of terrestrial locomotion	19
7338652574	Division of labor	Dividing a job into many specialized parts	20
7338654788	Cultural diffusion	spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from	21
7338656674	"fire-stick" farming	Australians who regularly used fire to burn vegetation and help with hunting	22
7338659624	Neolithic Revolution	Huge scale transition of many human cultures	23
7338664000	Paleolithic Age	Period of the Stone Age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years ago	24
7338664001	egalitarian	Believing in the principle that all people are equal	25
7338666793	Collective Learning	Complex concept of learning	26
7338669328	Collaboration	action of working with someone to produce	27
7338671209	abstract thinking	characterized by the ability to use ideas	28
7338673722	kinship	blood relationship.	29
7338673723	Latitiude	distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator	30
7338677263	Equator	imaginary line drawn around the earth	31
7338679040	Longitude	angular distance of a place east or west	32
7338679041	Prime Meridian	geographical coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°	33
7338682969	Asia	Earth's largest and most populous continent	34
7338685774	Europe	Europe was is one of the most populous continents	35
7338685775	Africa	world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent	36
7338687468	North America	North america is the largest continent	37
7338689835	South America	South America is a continent located in the western hemisphere	38
7338693253	Antarctica	shelters rich wildlife	39
7338695359	Australia	unique animal species	40
7338697412	Atlantic	Second largest ocean in the world	41
7338699182	Pacific	The Pacific Ocean is the largest	42
7338699183	Indian	The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean	43
7338701650	Artic	It is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Bering Strait	44
7338703807	Caribbean sea	It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west	45
7338709988	Mediterranean sea	sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean	46
7338712232	Sea of japan	Located north west of japan	47
7338714248	East China Sea	The sea East of China	48
7338717093	South China Sea	The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean	49
7338717094	Yellow Sea	northern part of the East China Sea	50
7338720446	Black Sea	The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe and Western Asia.	51
7338724234	nile	major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa	52
7338726409	Tigris & Euphrates	major river system in Western Asia	53
7338728977	Mississippi	World's largest drainage system	54
7338728978	Congo	second longest river in Africa after the Nile	55
7338732216	Indus	major south-flowing river in South Asia, particularly Pakistan	56
7338732217	Ganges	flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh	57
7338735190	Huang Ho (aka. Yellow River)	third longest river in Asia	58
7338737480	Yangtze	thee longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world	59
7338737481	Volga	longest river in Europe	60
7338740859	Danube	Europe's second-longest river	61
7338740860	Rhine	European river that begins in the Swiss canton	62
7338749874	Amazon	largest river by discharge volume of water in the world	63