Ap world history summer assignment Flashcards

7199050528	prehistory	the time before writing was developed	0
7199051232	homo sapiens	the first anatomically modern humans	1
7199052551	hunting and gathering	a food-collecting way of life	2
7199053260	Paleolithic Era	Old Stone Age; most defining accomplishment was the "peopling of the Earth"	3
7199055197	Neolithic Era	New Stone Age	4
7199055824	sedentary	settled	5
7199056256	Neolithic Revolution	the transition from food gathering to agriculture that began around 10,000 BCE	6
7199057750	bands	small groups of 25-50 people; mostly family relationships	7
7199058767	social hierarchies	the division of people into high and low status	8
7199060232	animists	they felt that natural objects like mountains or rivers contained spirits within them	9
7199062336	intensification	getting more benefit from fewer resources (ex.- more calories out of less land by farming)	10
7199064011	civilization	a complex sedentary society that developed because of food surpluses gained from the development of agriculture	11
7199065324	Bronze Age	3000 BCE- 600 BCE named due to the adoption of bronze metallurgy by many civilizations developed mostly in river valleys	12
7199068225	domestication	humans changing plants and animals in their environment to be better suited to human needs	13
7199070280	Catalhuyuk	in modern Turkey (elaborate later)	14
7199070707	Mesopotamia	on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers of modern Iraq first civilizations came about in around 3500 BCE	15
7199075119	Fertile Crescent	the city states of mesopotamia	16
7199078967	polythiests	had multiple gods	17
7199079789	ziggurats	huge stepped pyramid temples for the worship of personified natural forces like the goddess Inanna	18
7199083697	the epic of gilgamesh	An epic poem from Mesopotamia, is among the earliest surviving works of literature tells the story of a wild man Enkidu who becomes civilized with the help of a goddess' temple- uruk	19
7199087446	pastoralist peoples	nomadic herders who kept domesticated animals	20
7199088367	specialization of labor	possible in agricultural societies	21