AP World History Chapter 1 Part 1 Flashcards

8318965606	Hunter-gatherers	Hunter-gatherers rely on foraging and collecting food as their main food supply. Hunting animals, fishing, and gathering plants etc. NOT food producers.	0
8319004700	Paleolithic Era	Paleolithic = Old Stone Age. people were hunter-gatherers who lived in small bands and had a low population density. Used stone blades and points, tools made from bones, and grindstones too.	1
8319094230	Homo sapiens	Emerged in Africa 200,000-250,000 years ago. Used tools, hunted and fished, adapted to nearly every environment on earth!	2
8319104391	Blombos Cave	Cave in South Africa used as an Ochre Workshop. Helps to illustrate what Paleolithic peoples did. (Body ornaments, beads, pigments for cave art or body).	3
8319194691	Ice Age	Lowered Sea-levels, created ~land-bridges~.	4
8319215382	Cave Art	Paintings of animals, humans, human hands, and abstract design.	5
8319224506	Venus Figurines	Paleolithic Age figurines depicting the female figure. Carved from stone, antlers, mammoth tusks, occasionally some were baked clay.	6
8319282919	Aboriginal Australians	They developed 250 languages, collected bulbs, roots, tubers and others, also hunted and fished.	7
8319329273	Dreamtime	Stories, extended ceremonies, and evocative rock art that all told a creation story. (From Aboriginal Australians).	8
8319348974	Pituri	Addictive drug traded by the Aboriginal Australian people.	9
8319374067	Clovis Point	The Clovis culture emerged 13,000 years ago in THE AMERICAS. They camped along springs, rivers, and waterholes. Named after their distinctive projectile point.	10
8319405518	Moa	A flightless bird endemic to New Zealand, pushed to extinction in the first century after humans arrived.	11
8319422477	Kinship	Paleolithic societies of 25-50 people.	12
8319432191	Neanderthal man	Extinct Species of homininae	13
8319435748	Shamans	religious authorities/ritual specialists, (priests, medicine men etc.)	14
8319478328	Trance Dance	Ritual or spiritual dance that puts its performer in a trance like state.	15
8319486873	'Ceremonial space'	Caves with rock art which were far from living areas, (used/reserved only for ceremonies).	16
8319501862	Animism	Everything is animated by spirit, (rocks, plants etc.).	17
8319509549	Global Warming	Caused plants and animals to flourish.	18
8319518142	Neolithic Era	Neolithic Era = New Stone Age. In this age we see the beginning of agriculture and animal domestication.	19
8319534138	Agricultural Revolution	Deliberate Cultivation of plants and domestication of animals.	20
8319556748	Animal Domestication : _______	Created a mutual dependance between humans and animals.	21
8319632182	Animals and Crops of the Fertile Crescent, (Southwest Asia)	Cattle, Dogs, Donkey, Goat, Pig, Sheep - Barley, Lentils, Peas, Wheat, Flax.	22
8319764702	Fertile Crescent	1st full Agricultural revolution. Large increase in settlements, (several thousands). Sun-dried Mud-bricks, shrine like buildings, elaborate burials, sickles, axes, awls.	23
8319886369	Fertile Crescent location	The Fertile Crescent looks like a cap stretched over the top of the Arabian peninsula, (Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Southern Turkey).	24
8319992408	proximity to animals =	Results in Small Pox, Flu, Measles, Chicken Pox, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Rubies.	25
8320025791	Banpo Village in Xian	Several well organized Neolithic settlements discovered/found in the Yellow River Valley of Xian.	26
8320120708	Pastoralism	raising and caring for livestock. Following herds, Nomadic lifestyle.	27
8320818942	"Title Societies"	Societies where certain people had 'titles' and more control, NOT inherited.	28