Chapter 1 AP World History Stearns Flashcards

6198925857	hunting and gathering	these societies rely primarily on wild animals and plants	0
6198925858	civilization	any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification, symbolic communication forms (typically, writing systems), and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment by a cultural elite, socio-politico-economic characteristics, domestication	1
6198925859	Paleolithic	of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters	2
6198925860	Neolithic	of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000-8000 b.c. in the Middle East.	3
6198925861	nomads	A group of people who are constantly moving and have no home. Hunter and gatherers	4
6198925862	savages	uncivilized, non-domesticated, lack of culture, untamed	5
6198925863	culture	the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively	6
6198925864	Homo sapiens	the primate species to which modern humans belong; humans regarded as a species	7
6198925865	neanderthals	went extinct 40k years ago, archaic human, Homo neanderthalensis	8
6198925866	band	a small group of kin, normally smaller than a tribe	9
6198925867	agrarian revolution	period of transition from the pre-agricultural period into an agriculture period characterized by a diet of cultivated food, 10,000 BCE	10
6198925868	Natufian complex	Epipaleolithic culture, 12500-9500 BC, Levant Eastern Mediterranean, grew/used grain "cereal", first civilization	11
6198925869	matrilocal	a married couple lives with or resides near the wife's parents	12
6198925870	matrilineal	of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line	13
6198925871	pastoralism	the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society	14
6198925872	Catal Huyuk	7500 BC to 5700 BC, abandoned before the Bronze Age, largest and best-preserved Neolithic site	15
6198925873	Neolithic Revolution	the domestication of plants and animals by peoples with stone-based technologies, beginning about 10,000 years ago and leading to radical transformations in cultural systems; sometimes referred to as the neolithic transition	16
6198925874	Jericho	Palestinian city, said to be one of the oldest cities in the world and the first city walls	17
6198925875	Bronze Age	followed Neolithic period, characterized by the use of bronze and other metals of early urban civilization	18
6198925876	domestication	the process of taming an animal and keeping it on a farm	19
6198925877	social differentiation	the distinction made between social groups and persons on the basis of biological, physiological, and sociocultural factors, as sex, age, or ethnicity, resulting in the assignment of roles and status within a society	20