AMSCO AP World History Chapter 1 Key Terms Flashcards
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| 4923459758 | overfarming | taking too much from the farmed land | 0 | |
| 4923480331 | overgrazing | grazing the land so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground becomes liable to erosion | 1 | |
| 4923500873 | artifacts | an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest | 2 | |
| 4923507363 | Homo sapiens sapiens | humans | 3 | |
| 4923518736 | Paloelithic Period | a period of time that began 2.5 million years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago; because stone tools and weapons in this period, it is often called the Stone Age | 4 | |
| 4923529723 | Neolithic Period | a period of time about 10,000 years ago, as the climate was warming up from an Ice Age, where a collection of social and political developments coalesced | 5 | |
| 4923550316 | monotheism | the belief that there is only one God | 6 | |
| 4923552993 | Bronze Age | generally between 3300 BCE and 2300 BCE, a period of weapon evolution; from stone to copper to bronze | 7 | |
| 4923569520 | civilization | a large society with cities and powerful states | 8 | |
| 4923586116 | Jericho | built on the west bank of the Jordan river with artifacts dating 9000 BCE | 9 | |
| 4923617559 | Catal Huyuk | in present day Turkey; founded in 7500 BCE and existed for 2000 years | 10 | |
| 4923624855 | textiles | a type of cloth or woven fabric | 11 | |
| 4923630678 | specialization of labor | the process of allowing people to focus on limited tasks | 12 | |
| 4923661079 | copper | a metal found in a pure state in the ground in | 13 | |
| 4923664537 | bronze | a melted metal composed of tin and copper | 14 | |
| 4923670303 | hunter-forager | a person living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging | 15 | |
| 4923713389 | agriculture | the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products | 16 | |
| 4923717491 | surplus | an amount of something left over when requirements have been met | 17 | |
| 4923722609 | domestication | the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use | 18 | |
| 4923726517 | nomadic pastoralism | a way of life based on people moving herds of animals from pasture to pasture | 19 | |
| 4923742021 | kinship group | several related families that moved together in search of food | 20 | |
| 4923757609 | clan | a large group of relatives | 21 | |
| 4923765177 | tribe | multiple clans combined | 22 | |
| 4923769656 | patriarchal | of, relating to, or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men | 23 | |
| 4923801512 | artisans | a worker in a skilled trade | 24 | |
| 4923811347 | merchant | a business person who trades in commodities produced by other people in order to earn a profit | 25 | |
| 4923814706 | social stratification | refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy | 26 | |
| 4923816695 | preists/preistesses | the ordained church leader who serves a congregation of believers is called a priest; administer the sacraments, preach, and care for the needs of their congregations | 27 |