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AP World Unit One
Flashcards over Unit One. (hapters 1-3)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the first human-like creature? | Australopithecus (Lucy) Found in Ethiopia |
| First Hominid species to use fire? | Homo Erectus |
| How were the settlements in Africa planned? | Settlements were planned around the seasonal movement of game and fish. |
| Where did humans migrate after they left Africa? | First to the Middle East. From there, eastward into Europe and Westward into Asia. |
| What occurred as European peoples moved southward into warmer regions? | -Altered hunting habits -New spear technology -Cave painting (records, possibly early writing) |
| Which new technologies emerged in central Europe, Ukraine, and Russia? | -Bone Needles -Multilayer clothing -Weaving -Storage Pits -Baskets |
| Who were the Aborigines? | -Took Boats to Australia. (40K years ago) -Dreamtime: Alternate world viewed through alternate states of consciousness and hallucinogenic drugs. Where and when the world was created. Describes how everything relates to each other. |
| what was the route of migration into North America? | From Siberia, across the Bering Strait (by land bridge)and down the west coast of America. |
| What does the wide distribution of Clovis technology suggest? | -Arrowheads were found across a large area of North America. -Suggests cultural diffusion and indirect contact between peoples. |
| How did Austronesian migrations differ from other early patterns of Human movement? | -Occurred recently --> 3500 years ago -Waterborne migration -Happened quickly; over 2500 years |
| How did the hunting and gathering economy shape other aspects of Paleolithic societies? | -Egalitarian: Lacking Inequalities -Lacked specialization; everyone had the same set of skills. -Equality among men and women. |
| Why did Paleolithic societies have more leisure time? | -Hunter-gatherers worked fewer hours. -"Not because they had so much, but because they wanted so little." |
| How did Paleolithic people altar their natural environments? | By deliberately setting fires to encourage te growth of particular plants. |
| What does the presence of Venus figurines across Europe suggest? | -It had a strong female dimension, embodied a Great Goddess, and involved the renewal of life. -Moon Cycles. -Fertility Cycles. |
| Why did some Paleolithic peoples abandon earlier ways to live more settled lives? | -Climatic warming allowed many plants and animals to flourish. -Increased food stocks, allowing more settled life. |
| What is a Shaman? | A Person believed to have the ability to connect between the human and spirit worlds. |
| What were the transformations brought about by the Neolithic Revolution? | -Farming Growing Populations -Cities -States -Settled Villages -Animal Borne diseases -Sates -Civilizations |
| why is the Neolithic Revolution is most important event in Human History? | -Second Great human process after settlement of the globe. -"When the food and security are taken care of, cultures begin to flourish" |
| What is Domestication? | -Domesticate -> "dome"=home (to tame) Plants were domesticated for mass production. Animals for taming for herds. |
| What is the importance of intensification in the Neolithic Age? | -Intensification: getting more for less. (In this case, getting mote food for less land) -More food means more people -> More food and land required. |
| How did Agriculture emerge? | -Warmer, wetter, and more stable environments. -Cereal grains -New knowledge and technology -> better crop yields -Growing populations led to more food production and storage. |
| Where did the Neolithic Revolution happen? | -China -Fertile Crescent -New Guinea -Mesoamerica -Andes |
| Why did the American peoples lack sources of protein, manure, and power to pull carts? | -Lack of animals that could be domesticated. -(Beasts of Burden) |
| How did Agriculture spread? | -Diffusion: spread of ideas through interactions with "outsiders" -Colonization: People moving to new lands. (Conquest and Absorption) |
| Where was agriculture sometimes resisted? | -Places where the land sucked or where farming wasn't needed. -Somme hunter-gatherer peoples preferred the freer life compared to the hard life of farming. |
| When did moist Paleolithic societies die out? | By 1 CE (Common Era) |
| What are Pastoral Societies? | -Also Known As; Herders, Nomads. -Depended on animals to survive. (Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Camels) -Very Mobile. -Clan/Tribe based. |
| What are Agricultural Village Societies? | -Societies that kept some freedoms of hunter/gatherers -No Kings/Chiefs -Society based on Kinship -Some inequalities (Men over women, Elders over young) |
| What is a Chiefdom? | -Power is passed through generations -Chiefs rarely used force for power (Charisma, Gifts, and Religious Status) |
| What is Horticulture? | Hoe based Agriculture. |
| Mesopotamian Civilization | -Between Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Fertile Crescent) -Cuneiform= Earliest known writing -Not very centralized government -City States -Code of Hammurabi |
| Egyptian Civilization | -Nile River -3 Kingdoms: Old- Pyramids Middle- Nubians, Pharaoh New- Militaristic -Hatshepsut -> Women rulers (More gender equality) -Hieroglyphics -Papyrus= Paper |
| Indus River Valley Civilizations | -Indoor Plumbing -Long distance trade (Indus seals found in China) -Hinduism -Caste System |
| Chinese Civilization | -Shang (first dynasty) -> Oracle bones -Zhou (longest dynasty) -> Mandate of Heaven. (The emperor can rule as long as god pleases and if he is good to the people) |
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