AP World History Chapter One Vocabulary Terms Flashcards

10733887683	Bronze Age	the period of ancient human culture characterized by the use of bronze that began between 4000 and 3000 b.c. and ended with the advent of the Iron Age	0
10733903136	Çatalhüyük	an important Neolithic site in what is now Turkey (pron. cha-TAHL-hoo-YOOK)	1
10748069619	Clan	a group of people tracing descent from a common ancestor; extended family	2
10748086805	Chiefdom	a societal grouping governed by a chief who typically relies on generosity, ritual status, or charisma rather than force to win obedience from the people	3
10748098381	Domestication	to adapt (an animal or plant) over time from a wild or natural state especially by selective breeding to life in close association with and to the benefit of humans	4
10748106603	Egalitarian	a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs	5
10748113966	Homo Sapiens	the primate species to which modern humans belong; humans regarded as a species; believed to have originated about 250,000 years ago	6
10748124080	Hunting and Gathering (Hunter Forager)	group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic	7
10748140267	Jericho	city of ancient Palestine near the site of modern Jericho... sometimes said to be the oldest city	8
10748146051	Neolithic Revolution	In the Neolithic period farm animals were first domesticated and agriculture was introduced: it began in the Near East by the 8th millennium BC and spread to northern Europe by the 4th millennium BC.	9
10748167381	Paleolithic Age	also called Old Stone Age, ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools; 2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago	10
10760200503	Pastoralism	a human society that relies on domesticated animals rather than plants as the main source of food; pastoral nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than settling permanently in a single location	11
10760205767	Patriarchy	a social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; broadly : control by men of a disproportionately large share of power	12
10760212935	Specialization of Labor	...it was no longer necessary for one individual to learn how to do every kind of work. Instead, one person could specialize in making pottery, while another could specialize in weaving cloth. As a result of this specialization, men and women were able to hone their skills. The quality of their pottery, cloth, or other products became increasingly better...	13
10760217916	Tribe	a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations together with slaves, dependents, or adopted strangers	14
10760221475	Austronesian Migration	the last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth.Austronesian-speaking people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago	15
10760226938	Bantu Migration	the spread of Bantu-speaking peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria or Cameroon to most of Africa, in a process that started ca. 3000 B.C.E. and continued for several millennia	16
10760231830	Fertile Crescent	a region sometimes known as Southwest Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, and southern Turkey; the earliest home of agriculture	17
10760237715	Evolution	changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will help it survive and have more offspring	18
10760241925	Venus Figurines	paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance	19