AP World History Summer Vocabulary Flashcards

10412726591	"Out of Africa" Migrations	The migrations of humans away from our origins in Africa to other places, beginning between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago	0
10412736329	Agricultural Transition	The gradual transformation of human societies from hunting and gathering to farming	1
10412744303	B.C.E.	Before Common Era	2
10412745402	C.E.	Common Era	3
10412745999	Civilization	More complex societies that were based in bustling cities and governed by formal states	4
10412751678	Clovis Point	The fluted projectile point characteristic of North American Paleoindians	5
10412756240	Eurasia	The large landmass that includes both Europe and Asia	6
10412758578	Homo Sapiens	The species name for modern humans	7
10412760664	Hunter-Gatherer	A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food	8
10412762105	Ice Age (30,000 - 15,000 Y.A.)	A period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets	9
10412765511	Kinship	A social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption	10
10412767626	Land Bridge Theory	The theory that Native Americans crossed into North America from Asia over a land bridge that once connected North America and Asia	11
10412772308	Papua New Guinea	An island country in the Southwest Pacific	12
10412775547	Neolithic Revolution	(10,000 - 8,000 BCE) The development of agriculture and the domestication of animals as a food source. This led to the development of permanent settlements and the start of civilization	13
10412778025	Neolithic Era	Period during which humans obtained food by raising crops and animals and continued to use tools primarily of stone, bone, and wood	14
10412779562	Pastoralism	A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter	15
10412781999	Patriarchy	A form of social organization in which males dominate over females	16
10412783110	Paleolithic	Literally "old stone age"; the term used to describe early Homo sapiens societies in the period before the development of agriculture	17
10412789006	Root Crops	Crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cuttings from the plants	18
10412790227	Tree Crops	Crops that are harvested from trees	19