AP World History Chapter One:Before History Flashcards

13627090832	Six-thousand years ago	When did the world's first cities appear?	0
13627099253	Complex societies	A form of a large-scale social organization that emerged in several parts of the ancient world.	1
13627120634	Lucy	A forty percent complete skeleton discovery of an Australopithecus afarensis, or a species within the category of hominid. She was rediscovered on November 24, 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia.	2
13627132510	Prehistory	A period of time that refers to events or objects that date before the written record existed.	3
13627137143	Olduvai Gorge	A gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains	4
13627147223	Australopithecus	"southern ape"; appeared in Africa 4-5 million years ago; stood upright and walked on 2 legs; brain was only 1/3 the size of our brains today	5
13627158544	Hominid	A member of a biological group including human beings and related species that walk upright	6
13627162542	Homo	The genus of modern humans	7
13627169049	Homo erectus	"Upright man" these hominids became skillful hunters and invented more sophisticated tools for digging, scraping and cutting. They also became the first hominids to migrate from Africa. Also were the first to use fire.	8
13627176861	Homo sapiens	A species of the creatures Hominid who have larger brains and to which humans belong, dependent of language and usage of tools.	9
13627182463	Paleolithic Era	Called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago); they were concerned with food supply; they used stone as well as bone tools; they were nomadic hunters and gatherers.	10
13627190281	Natufian Society	Referring to collector-type hunter-gatherers who established sedentary settlements in parts of the Near East after 12,000 ya.	11
13627195076	Jomon Society	Period of life in japan. It transitioned over many years from nomadic "hunters and gatherers" to settlements and farmers.	12
13627207496	Hunter-gatherers	Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods	13
13629083656	Chinook Society	Permanently settled in Pacific Northwest. They had sources of berries, acorns, and salmon.	14
13629089614	Neanderthals	In Europe, another human species lived and adapted to life in the cold climates of the last Ice Age.	15
13629097330	Cro-Magnon	These people who are identical to modern humans appeared around 40,000 years ago. They had new tools, planned hunts, and appear to have migrated from Northern Africa to Asia and Europe.	16
13629101433	Venus figurines	Small Paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features.	17
13629108749	Neolithic Age	"New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture	18
13629112716	Foragers	People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects.	19
13629133456	Mesoamerica	A geographic region in the western hemisphere that was home of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations.	20
13629140258	Jericho	An ancient and strategically vital city in Canaan, the first major city to be captured by the Israelites.	21
13629145313	Catal Huyuk	One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions	22
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