World History AP Flashcards

4981320156	What is the earliest know archaeological evidence of our ancestral origins in East Africa?	Human mtDNA and Y chromosomes	0
4981320157	What were the four destinations of the first migrating hominids?	Cape of good hope, Congo basin, Ivory Coast, and the levant	1
4981320158	What was the first exit?	A passage, known as the levant, that lead early humans out of Africa	2
4981320159	What happened to the first exit group?	A global freeze wiped them out	3
4981320160	What happened between 90,000 and 85,000 BCE?	A group crossed the mouth of the Red Sea toward India	4
4981320161	What are the gates of grief?	The mouth of the Red Sea that separates Africa from the Arabian peninsula	5
4981320162	After the second exit , what did you notice about path of migration?	The path follows along the coast	6
4981320163	What was the impact of Mt. Toba on the "Journey of Mankind"?	The eruption caused mass extinction and a sharp decrease in population	7
4981320164	When did people begin to migrate to Oceania?	74,000-65,000 BCE	8
4981320165	When did people begin moving to Europe and what made this possible?	65,000-52,000 BCE due to dramatic warming of climate	9
4981320166	Around when did people begin migrating to Japan and from where?	45,000-40,000 through central China steppes	10
4981320167	Around when-and how-did people get to North America?	25,000-22,000 crossed the Bering Land Bridge into Alaska	11
4981320168	What happened between 22,000 and 19,000 BCE, and what are refuges?	The last ice age occurred, refuges where places of remaining life and vegetation	12
4981320169	What are Bradshaw paintings?	Australian rock art	13
4981320170	What was the last continent on which people arrived?	South America	14
4981320171	Where were the first four River valley civilizations located and what did geography have to do with their development?	Tigris-Euphrates River valley, Nile River valley, Indus River valley, yellow River valley. All these civilizations formed around rivers which gave easy access to fertile soil and water	15
4981320172	What are the seven characteristics of civilization?	Centralized system of government, complex exchanges for food, buildings, system of writing, belief system, specialized occupation, technological innovation	16
4981320173	What characterized pastoral societies?	Domestication of animals and nomads who would herd the animals	17
4981320174	How did pastoral societies interact with early agricultural societies?	Pastoral societies often raided agricultural villages for livestock	18
4981320175	What made the dawn of agriculture possible and when did it occur?	10,000-8,000 BCE due to the final clasp of the ice age	19
4981320176	What are the characteristics of the Paleolithic age?	Humans making and using tools	20
4981320177	What type of advancements and developments did him ifs make in the late Paleolithic age?	Farming and domestication technics	21
4981320178	What was the Neolithic revolution and what caused the huge transformation?	Humans began using agriculture rather than foraging and occurs for a number of reasons including climate change and increased population	22
4981320179	What regions of the world experienced the Neolithic revolution and when did it occur?	Near bodies of water around 10,000 BCE	23
4981320180	how did social factors change with the Neolithic revolution?	Status of women began to decrees as men took control, social classes began to emerge	24
4981320181	How did demographic factors change with the Neolithic revolution?	Populations increased by almost a factor of 10	25
4981320182	How did environmental factors begin to change with the Neolithic revolution?	Humans began dramatically changing land in order to farm on it	26
4981320183	How did political factors change with the Neolithic revolution?	Cities began to form around areas of agriculture which gave way to councils and governments being formed	27
4981320184	What economic factors change with the Neolithic revolution?	With a surplus of food, people began developing other trades such as production of tools or clothing	28
4981320185	What were the main crops and animals that were domesticated during the Neolithic revolution?	Grains beans and pigs	29
4981320186	What were the differences between the Americas and Eurasia during the Neolithic revolution?	Americans traveled along the coast but Eurasia was able to move inland	30
4981320187	Who made ziggurats?	Sumerians and Mesopotamia	31
4981320188	How were ziggurats used?	The top part was a sanctuary used for worship	32
4981320189	What can we deduce about the civilizations that made ziggurats?	They were advanced enough to have a belief system	33
4981320190	Who made the pyramids?	Egyptians, Mesopotamia, Middle East, southwest Asia	34
4981320191	How were pyramids used?	Protected tomes of important people or rulers	35
4981320192	What can we deduce about the civilizations that made pyramids?	The ruler had lots of control and there was a surplus of food	36
4981320193	Who made temples?	Sumerians	37
4981320194	How were temples used?	A place to worship to their gods	38
4981320195	What can we deduce about the civilizations that made temples?	They were advanced enough to have a belief system	39