AP World History Flashcards
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| 7001656864 | Gathering and Hunting | subsisting in the wild on food obtained by hunting and gathering | 0 | |
| 7001656865 | Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution | wide scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making possible an increasingly larger population | 1 | |
| 7001656866 | Domestication | the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food | 2 | |
| 7001656867 | Innovation | A new method, idea, product, etc. | 3 | |
| 7001656868 | Diffusion | the spreading of something more widely. | 4 | |
| 7001672531 | Pastoral Society | a society in which food is obtained primarily by raising and taking care of animals | 5 | |
| 7001672532 | Sedentary Society | staying in one place and creating your own food | 6 | |
| 7001675902 | Urban Revolution | the process by which small, kin-based, nonliterate agricultural villages were transformed into large, socially complex, urban societies | 7 | |
| 7001675903 | City-State | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state | 8 | |
| 7001677320 | Civilization | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced. | 9 | |
| 7001677321 | Patriarchy (Patriarchal Society) | a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it. | 10 | |
| 7001679618 | Social Hierarchy | the division of society by rank or class | 11 | |
| 7001680825 | Job Specialization | The process of focusing one's occupational concentration on a specific area of expertise. | 12 | |
| 7001682403 | Metallurgy | the branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification. | 13 | |
| 7001683142 | Cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. | 14 | |
| 7001683143 | Hieroglyphs | a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems. | 15 | |
| 7001684673 | Quipus | an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways. | 16 |