AP WORLD HISTORY TERMS Flashcards

5751465019	civilization	An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits	0
5751480517	culture	Socially transmitted patterns of human action and expression	1
5751637195	history	The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices	2
5751645608	Stone Age	The historical period characterized by the production o tools rom stone and other nonmetallic substances	3
5751667879	Paleolithic	The period o the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans	4
5751677443	Neolithic	The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s)	5
5751691803	foragers	People who support themselves by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild edible plants and insects	6
5751701560	Agricultural Revolutions	The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between about 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution	7
5751729446	Holocene	The geological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 13,000 years ago	8
5751736667	megaliths	Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times	9
5751750234	Sumerians	The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E	10
5751762317	Semitic	Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. The most widespread modern number of the Semitic family is Arabic	11
5885910829	City-state	A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia, Archaic and classical Greece, Phoenician, and early Italy	12