AP World History Flashcards

10911117679	Venus figurines-25,000 years ago Eurasia	Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance	0
10911117680	Clovis Culture 12,000 BCE New Mexico	The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point.	1
10911117681	Megafanual Extinction	End of the last ice age when giant ice mammals went extinct.	2
10911117682	Gobleki Tepe	religious structure built by hunter/gatherer societis, based on seasons and solstace, etc. 13,700-13,900 bce. located in Turkey.	3
10911117683	Austronesian migrations	Groups in Southeast Asia, Oceania and east Africa that speak similar languages and populated the last continent. Brought domesticated plants and animals.	4
10911117684	Bantu Migration	The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000	5
10911117685	pastoral societies	societies whose subsistence derives from the rearing of domesticated animals	6
10911117686	Catalhuyuk	one of the world's first villages, established in modern-day Turkey around 7000 B.C.	7
10911117687	Agricultural Village Societies	were usually organized in terms of kinship groups or lineages. Very different from hunting and gathering.	8
10911117688	Chiefdoms	Centralized political systems with authority vested in formal, usually hereditary, offices or titles	9
10914983573	250-200k BCE	First homosapian	10
10914983574	100k BCE	Left Africa	11
10914983575	70-45k BCE	60k Australia 30-15k America's 3k-500 BCE austronesian	12
10930968864	Agricultural Revolution	12,000-4,000 BCE	13
10930968865	Patriarchy	Emergence from large scale warfare with professionally led armies	14
10930968866	Mother of all civilizations	Olmec	15
10930968867	7 major civilizations	Summer, Norte Chico, Indus Valley, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Oxus, Olmec, Nubian	16
10930968868	Instability in Mesopotamia	The rivalries between independent city states that led to warefare	17
10930968869	Agricultural revolution-america	Scarcity of animals that could be domesticated	18