Unit 1 AP World History Flashcards

10493310839	Paleolithic Age	(Until 10,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age; stone tools & hunting and gathering as a food source.	0
10493311946	Neolithic Age	New Stone Age; advances in production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture	1
10493313281	Bronze Age	period between Stone and Iron ages, manufacture + use of bronze tools and weapons	2
10493313810	Civilization	A complex, highly organized social order w/ surplus food production, city, trade, government, religion, etc.	3
10493314073	City-state	A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland	4
10493314074	Oracle	person thought to be a source of wisdom/prophecy	5
10493314897	Monotheism	belief in a single God	6
10493316243	Neolithic Revolution	(10,000 - 8,000 BCE) development of agriculture and domestication of animals as a food source; led to development of permanent settlements and start of civilization.	7
10493316824	Slash and burn agriculture	farming technique where trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land	8
10493318381	Nomads	a member of a people having no permanent abode and travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for livestock	9
10493318653	Polytheism	Belief in many gods	10
10493318654	Ideographic symbols	writing system where a character/symbol represents an idea/thing without expressing the pronunciation of a word or words (i.e. Chinese, Japanese; directly represents a concept, idea, or thing)	11
10493319329	Phoenicians	located on eastern Mediterranean coast; invented the alphabet which used sounds (phonetic) rather than symbols like cuneiform	12
10493320645	Homo sapiens sapiens	"wise, wise humans," species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago; first anatomically modern humans	13