AP World History Section 1 Flashcards

11738955457	big geography	draws attention to the global nature of world history	0
11738957450	Paleolithic period	old stone age; ended 10,000 years ago; humans migrated from Africa, adapted to various climates, and developed technologies	1
11738968236	hunter-forager	also hunter-gatherer; a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or pastoralism	2
11738974565	agriculture	the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.	3
11738979059	farmers' effects on environment	cultivation of selection plants to the exclusion of others, construction of irrigation systems, and use of domesticated animals for food and labor	4
11738984115	patriarchy	a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line	5
11746340249	pastoralism	a type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter	6
11746358279	civilization	a large society with cities that had agricultural surpluses resulting in specialization of labor, complex institutions like political bureaucracies, armies, and religious hierarchies, social hierarchies, and organized long-distance trading relationships	7
11746402400	institution	a long-standing custom, practice, or tradition adopted by a group of people	8
11746406252	bureaucracy	administrative offices of a government staffed with non-elected workers	9
11746471073	sedentism	the practice of living in one place for a long time	10
11746474584	Neolithic Revolution	prehistorical shift in human activity from hunting and gathering to agriculture resulting in human settlements	11
11746497187	where agriculture originated	Mesopotamia, the Nile River Valley, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indus River Valley, the Yellow River (or Huang He) Valley, Papua New Guinea, Mesoamerica, and the Andes	12
11746529444	Mesopotamia	Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys	13
11746531705	Egypt	Nile River Valley	14
11746538323	Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa	Indus River Valley	15
11746540984	Shang	Yellow River (Huang He) Valley	16
11746543734	Olmec	Mesoamerica	17
11746550338	Chavin	Andean South America	18
11746557026	first states emerged in	Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley	19
11746574528	early monumental architecture and urban planning	ziggurats, pyramids, and defensive walls	20
11746582409	early record keeping	cuneiform and hieroglyphics	21
11746597006	early legal codes	Code of Hammurabi (Babylonia) and Code of Ur-Nammu (Sumer)	22