Unit 1- AP World History Flashcards

4780178985	environment	What historical theme is the interaction between humans and environment?	0
4780182170	culture	What historical theme is the development and interaction of cultures?	1
4780182171	state building	What historical theme is the state building, expansion, and conflict?	2
4780183936	economy	What historical theme is the creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems?	3
4780185648	social structure	What historical theme is the development and transformation of social structures?	4
4780196225	advanced civilizations	cultures characterized by high levels of technological advancement, specialization of labor, political structure, social interaction, and intellectual development	5
4780201718	gender based division of labor	allocation of work responsibilities culturally predetermined by gender	6
4780203436	hominids	early species of humanlike beings who exhibited uniquely human characteristics	7
4780207533	homo erectus (upright human)	hominid species that populated temperate zones (upright human)	8
4780208835	homo sapiens	hominid species that populated more severe climates (humans with ability to reason)	9
4780210676	Neolithic revolution	gradual but momentous transition of Neolithic humans from hunting-and-gathering economies to agricultural or pastoral economies	10
4780214934	nomadic	moving from place to place to pursue a livelihood	11
4780217170	opposable thumb	digit that enables a hand to grasp things	12
4780220722	Made more use of shelter and fire and developed warmer clothing	How did Paleolithic humans adapt to survive during the Pleistocene era?	13
4780224868	Growing wealth and power led to suspicion, envy, and sometimes warfare	What accurately reflects the state of world affairs during the Neolithic Revolution?	14
4780229721	Neolithic people studied the natural world to increase their understanding of the spiritual world	What accurately describes interplay of aesthetics, intellectual life, and religion during the Neolithic Revolution?	15
4780727829	anthropologists	scientists who study the development of the distinctive cultures, lifestyles, and social interactions of human beings in the past or present	16
4780730628	archaeologists	scientists who study the cultures, lifestyles, and social interactions of human beings in the past by examining their constructions and artifacts	17
4780733173	clans	small, close-knit kinship groups descended from a common ansector	18
4780734608	egalitarian	characterized by equality of rights and treatment among individuals	19
4780735929	Mesolithic Era	"Middle Stone Age"; the prehistoric era lasting from about 12,000 to 10,000 years ago	20
4780738685	Neolithic Era	"New Stone Age"; the prehistoric era from 8000 B.C.E and lasting until the development of metal tools in 3500 B.C.E.	21
4780744307	Paleolithic Era	"Old Stone Age" ; prehistoric era beginning between 2 and 4 million years ago and lasting until about 12,000 years ago	22
4780748331	Stone Age	era of prehistory lasting from about 2 to 4 million years ago to about 3,000 or 4,000 years B.C.E and characterized by the use of stone tools	23
4780751637	tribes	large kinship groups descended from a common ancestor and sharing social or informal political ties	24
4780798770	4 to 5 million years ago in Eastern Africa	When did the first hominids to stand upright?	25
4780807105	Homo sapiens	Who came after the homo erectus?	26
4780845665	homo erectus	Who were the first hominids to leave East Africa?	27
4780856637	Neandrathal Man and Cro-Magnon	2 subspecies of homo sapiens?	28
4780858602	cro magnon	Which subspecies was most like the modern human being?	29
4781135714	Europe - Australia - Americas - East Asian Islands	Which sequence best describes the order of migrations of homo sapiens from the Middle East after emerging from Africa?	30
4781154679	Nomadic hunter gatherer groups owned a few possessions and probably had no concept of private property	Which description best characterizes the economies of Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies	31
4781158713	large fire pit, 3 broken projectile points, 10 worn out scrapers, multiple fragments of burnt bone	Which tools and artifacts found at a Stone Age site would clearly identify it as a long term camp for an early Paleolithic hunter gatherer group?	32
4781175685	several finely shaped bone needles	Which item uncovered at an archaeological dig would indicate that the site probably dates from the Mesolithic era rather than Paleolithic?	33
4784487359	the most recent ice age	What was the Pleistocene Era?	34
4785533447	ground stone tools improved so much in quality that they made chip stone tools obsolete	Which statement describing technological and agricultural innovation during the Neolithic Era is most accurate?	35
4785542335	landowners	Who were the wealthiest and most prominent members of an agricultural society?	36
4786393858	pastoralism	practice of herding sheep, goats, or other cattle for food or other products	37
4786399146	migratory farming	technique of cultivating land continuously until the soil is depleted and then moving to a new area to cultivate land	38
4786399147	slash and burn farming	clearing and fertilizing land for cultivation by slashing bark of trees to kill them and burning dead wood	39
4786422641	fallow	allowing a cultivated field to revert temporarily to its natural regeneration to increase fertility	40
4786426363	Jericho	earliest known Neolithic Village	41
4786427309	8000 BCE	when was Jericho founded	42
4786428409	Catal Huyuk	What village had no streets or ground level entrances and used rooftops to move around?	43
4786433551	wealth and social distinction	determination of an individuals standing based on his or her material worth	44
4786437864	metallurgy	technique of extracting metals from ore and purifying them	45
4786439565	metalworking	shaping metal into tools and implements	46
4786442192	Between 4000 and 3000 BCE	When was bronze first made?	47
4786444908	matrilineal societies	Which society do children inherit their mothers lineage	48
4786445661	patrilineal societies	Which society do children inherit their fathers lineage	49
4786449098	nuclear family	familial group consisting of mother, father, and children	50
4786452599	Middle East, East Asia, Africa, Americas, to most temperate places	Route of agriculture	51
4806446166	5 to 6 billion years ago	When did the earth form?	52
4806448173	60 million years ago	When did the current position of our landmasses come into place?	53
4806452876	Aborigines (Australia's native human population)	Oldest human ethnic group?	54
4806464136	3500 B.C.E in Middle Eastern Mesopotamia between Tigris and Euphrates river	When did civilized humanity begin?	55
4806474108	Egyptians and Indus Valley civilization	Who were the next 2 civilized humanity civilizations?	56
4806478752	3500 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia, it was called cuneiform	When and what was the first writing system called?	57
4806481125	Anatolia in 8000 B.C.E	Where and when did the first domesticated plants/animals?	58
4806484474	irrigation	the method of watering agricultural crops by diverting water into fields in controlled volumes	59
4806489625	lugals	What was equivalent to kings in 3000-2000 BCE Mesopotamia?	60
4806492526	Mediterraean Sea Red Sea Arabian Sea Sea of Japan East China Sea South China Sea Caribbean Sea	What were the 7 seas of most importance to the early civilizations?	61
4806534405	8 inches	How many inches of rainfall do cereal crops need?	62
4817686810	True	True or False? Stone Age social groups sustained themselves by hunting and gathering	63
4817691274	fertilization, irrigation, and mixed crop types	Types of farming techniques?	64
4817704470	food surplus	meant they had more than they needed and could trade	65
4817707793	10000-4000 BCE	New Stone Age	66
4817750135	5000-1200 BCE	river valley civilizations	67