AP World History Unit 1 Flashcards

10585916240	person with abilities	Homo habilis	0
10585918004	person who thinks	Homo sapiens	1
10585920016	person who walks upright	Homo erectus	2
10585923309	way of life	Culture	3
10585927284	Old Stone Age	Paleolithic	4
10585929248	Middle Stone Age	Mesolithic	5
10585929249	New Stone Age	Neolithic	6
10585934276	A period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets.	The Ice Age	7
10585943196	4.4 million years ago	How far do the first pre-hominids date back ?	8
10585945074	Australopithecus	Who was Lucy ?	9
10585950421	Archaeologists use this test to determine the date/age of organic artifacts	radiocarbon dating	10
10585952403	science dealing with the origin, races, customs, and beliefs of humankind	Anthropology	11
10585955650	humans and other creatures that walk upright	Hominids	12
10585958303	the period of time before written records	Prehistory	13
10585962644	Homo Erectus	What species first learned how to make fire ?	14
10585966300	Neanderthals	What were the first Homo Sapiens ?	15
10585973232	35-50	What were the size of groups Neanderthals lived in ?	16
10585976174	they believed in life after death	What were Neanderthals beliefs	17
10585981314	Africa	Where did modern humans originate?	18
10585986630	Thinner, sharper blades	How did technology change ?	19
10585992662	Canoes	What were cut down trees used for ?	20
10585998447	This allowed for the hunting of much larger animals than before	What did spear throwers and bows and arrows allow for ?	21
10586004634	2 million	How many people in the world were there in 15,000 BCE ?	22
10586009098	These people were known for spear-throwers and their vast amounts of artwork. They lived on Earth for thousands of years but stopped being distinct 10,000 years ago. They look similar to humans today.	Cro-Magnon people	23
10586019763	change from food gathering to food producing (around 8000 BCE)	Neolithic Agricultural Revolution	24
10586036542	Invented the plow and trained oxen to pull it	Agricultural Revolution	25
10586042545	People started competing for land and water routes	Why did warfare begin ?	26
10586049764	The advances made by early farming communities led people to this new stage of development.	Emergence of Civilization	27
10586052946	river valleys	Where were the earliest civilizations located ?	28
10586056482	The Nile river, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Indus, and the Huang He	What were the major river valley civilizations ?	29
10586064959	They depended on the farmers surplus of food	What did the early economy depend on ?	30
10586070886	skilled workers	What are artisans?	31
10586077195	Government officials oversaw the collection and distribution of crops	Rise of Cities	32
10586085852	Guard their territories and trade routes	What were soldiers hired to do ?	33
10586093529	A king	Who led the early government ?	34
10586097231	Priest created writing in order to take a record of religious gifts	Who first created writing ?	35
10586100273	They wrote myths, and how the world was formed	What also did priests write about ?	36
10586112132	On 7 clay tablets	Where did Sumerians write their myths ?	37