AP World History: Paleolithic Period Flashcards

14979657370	Pre-history	the period of time before written records	0
14979657371	features of civilization	Social etiquette, religion, education, literature	1
14979657372	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.	2
14979657373	Neolithic Era	the last period of the stone age when human beings began to develop agriculture, and use tools and weapons made from shaped and polished stone	3
14979657375	foraging societies	Also known as hunting and gathering societies, are societies in which people acquire their subsistence from the resources around them, without cultivating the earth.	4
14979657376	nomadic hunter/gathers	A group of people who have no permanent home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and land.	5
14979657377	Ice Age	The historic period in history of widespread glaciation, during which glaciers spread over about a third of the earth's land area	6
14979657378	civilization	a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)	7
14979657379	Neolithic Revolution	the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC	8
14979657380	Domestication of plants and animals	the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans	9
14979657381	nomadic pastoralism	slash and burn; once land has been depleted, move on to let soil recover	10
14979657382	migratory farmers	Farmers that migrate instead of settling after using up the land.	11
14979657383	partrilineal	a unilineal descent system in which ancestry is traced through the male line	12
14979657384	patrilocal	move in with husband's family	13
14979657385	irrigation systems	methods to supply water to farmland in areas with insufficient rainfall	14
14979657387	ethnocentrism	tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups	15
14979657388	foraging	The seeking and obtaining of food.	16
14979657389	sedentary agriculture	Planting seeds and harvesting them regularly. Began in the Neolithic.	17
14979657391	matrilineal	relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother	18
14979657392	cultural diffusion	The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another	19
14979657393	independant invention	The creation of technology or culture without influence from outside groups.	20
14979657394	Focusing work effort on a particular product or a single task	Focusing work effort on a particular product or a single task	21
14979657396	metallurgy	the science, technology and arts of metals	22
14979657405	Patricarchal society	society in which men exercise the authority	23
14979657406	Cuneiform	an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia	24