AP world history ch 1 Flashcards

10501588785	Modern humans that originated in a small region of Africa 200,000 years ago	Homo sapien	0
10501590985	Some of the biggest breakthroughs of migration out of Africa	Domestication of plants and animals Creation of settled agriculture	1
10501601959	Application of human labor and tools to a fixed plot of land for more than one growing cycle.	Settled agriculture	2
10501602841	Settled Agriculture	The changeover from a hunting-gathering lifestyle to one based in agriculture, which requires staying in one place until the soil has been exhausted.	3
10501618130	Animal Domestication	Gradual process that occurred simultaneously with or just before the domestication of plants, depending on the region	4
10501630757	Creation Narratives	Narratives constructed by different cultures that draw on their belief systems and available evidence to explain the origins of the world and humanity.	5
10501642364	3 different groups of hominids	Present day gorillas, chimpanzees, and modern day humans.	6
10501645399	Evolution	Is the process by which species of plants and animals change and develop over generations, as certain traits are favored in reproductions	7
10501652221	Australopithecines	Existed not only in Southern Africa but in the north as well.	8
10501655185	Raymond Dart	Discovered the pint-sized skull and bones of a creature that had both ape-like and human-like features.	9
10501659684	Adaptation	The ability to alter behavior and to innovate, finding new ways of doing something.	10
10501665944	3 million years of Hominids of evolution	Brains doubled in size; their foreheads became more elongated; their jaws became less massive; and they took on a much more human look.	11