AP world history Flashcards

4765938216	Olduvai gorge	A place in East Africa that has artifacts from the earliest hominids	0
4765938217	Archaeology	The study of past societies through an analysis of what people have left behind them	1
4766008956	Anthropologists	Experts who use artifacts and human fossils to determine how people lived their lives	2
4766008957	Heinrich Schliemann	And early archaeologist from Germany who tried to prove homer story true he went and discovered the site of troy	3
4766008958	Radiocarbon dating	A method of analysis that calculates the age of artifacts and fossils by measuring the amount of C 14 left in them	4
4766008959	Thermoluminescence dating	A method of analysis the dates an object by measuring the light given off by electrons trapped in the soil surrounding it	5
4766008960	Hominids	The earliest humanlike creatures that lived in Africa	6
4766008961	Austrolopithicous	Southern apes they flourished in eastern and southern Africa and where the first hominids to make stone tools	7
4766008962	Homo erectus	Upright human being a species that emerged about 1.5 million years ago they learn to use tools and fire and with her first hominids to leave Africa for Europe and Asia	8
4766008963	Homo sapiens	Why is it human being a species that emerged around 250,000 years ago and marked the third stage of human development they have larger brains and are capable of abstract thought	9
4766008964	Neanderthals	A type of Homo sapiens that made clothes from animal skins and seem to have been the first to bury their dead	10
4766008965	Homo sapiens sapien	Wise wise human being a species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago they were the first anatomically modern humans	11
4766008966	Paleolithic age	Greek for old stone the early period of human history in which humans used simple stone tools and forage for food	12
4766008967	Nomadic	People who move from place to place to follow plants cycle and animals	13
4766008968	Neolithic age	. Beginning in 9000 B.C.E. during which humans obtain food by raising crops and animals and continue to use tools primarily of stone bone and wood Greek for new Stone Age	14
4766008969	Neolithic Revolution	The shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to keeping of animals and growing a food on a regular basis during the Neolithic age	15
4766008970	Mesolithic age	Middle Stone Age the period from 10,000 to 7000 BC characterized by a gradual shift from a food gathering and hunting economy to a food producing one	16
4766008971	Neolithic farming villages	Settlements that were more permanent and able to support larger populations due to the growing of crops on a regular basis	17
4766008972	Bronze age	From around 3000 to 1200 BC characterized by the widespread use of bronze for tools and weapons Greece is this kind of civilization	18
4766008973	Civilization	Density of population government division of labor technology writing	19
4766008974	Stone tools	The first tools made that help humans cope with their environment	20
4766008975	Catal Huyuk	A Neolithic farming town that is located in modern-day Turkey it is built very close together	21
4766008976	Mesoamerica	Areas of Mexico and Central America that were civilized before the Spaniards arrived	22
4766008977	Nile Valley	The river valley that molded Egypt civilization	23
4766008978	Systemic agriculture	Keeping of animals and growing of food on a regular basis	24
4766008979	Mediterranean	The center of everything for 4000 years	25
4766008980	Earth mother's	Females were depicted giving birth or nursing a child they were seen as goddesses	26
4766008981	Neolithic patterns	Permanent dwellings domesticated animals regular farming specialized occupation and men holding power are all part of the human story	27
4766043218	Mary Leakey and Louis leaky	People who spend most of their lives searching for early hominids and artifacts at Olduvai gorge	28
4766043219	Ice Age	Age the past a severe threat to human life began about 100,000 BC and reached coldest temperatures between 20,000 and 10,000 BC most of earth was covered in ice which caused lots of migration	29
4766043220	Hunter/gatherer	Hunters were usually men who hunted large animals for food and clothing gathers were usually women who gathered berries	30
4766043221	Selective breeding	The process by which humans of use animal breeding and plant breeding to develop specific characteristics	31
4766043222	Mesopotamia	Valley between the Tigris and Euphrates river at the eastern end of the Fertile Crescent	32
4766043223	City state	An independent political entity and the agricultural land around it that supports it	33
4766043224	Ziggurat	A massive stepped tower upon which was the center of government and was used for storage	34
4766043225	Theocracy	A government ruled by Divine authority	35
4766043226	Empire	A large political unit that unifies different kinds of people under a single leader	36
4766043227	Patriarchal	A society dominated by men	37
4766043228	Polytheistic	The belief in many gods	38
4766043229	Tribal	Of or the characteristics of a tribe	39
4766043230	Complex culture	A group of cultural traits all interacted and dominated by one trait	40
4766043231	Agricultural revolution	When man went from hunting and gathering to farming and raising animals	41
4766043232	Lucy/Donald Johanson	Discovered the southern apes which was the oldest fossils	42
4766043233	Anisim	That your Bhushan I was sold to plants in animate objects and natural phenomena	43
4766043234	Pastoralism	The branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock	44
4766043235	Shamans	A person who communicated and had access and influence in the world of gods	45
4766043236	Domesticating	To tame animals by generations of breeding	46
4766043237	Characteristics of civilization	Density of population government division of labor technology and writing	47
4766043238	Foraging	To search weekly for food or provisions	48