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A.P. World History
Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Revolution | People began farming for food. Population increased, and they began to stay in one place. |
| Big Bang Theory | The scientific theory that states, gravity eventually caused an eruption creating the universe, a life itself. |
| Lucy | The name of the oldest set of bones found in Africa. Lucy is comprised o several pieces of bone. A.K.A. Cameron Coys girlfriend |
| 'Out of Africa' | The theory that the human race began in Africa, and eventually spread out from there, populating the rest of the world. |
| domestication | When humans alter natural resources to better their quality of life. Ex. cows, corn |
| Neolithic Era | The change of people from hunting and gathering to agriculture that led to the permanent settlements |
| civilizations | The stage of human development that is considered to be the highest |
| The Bronze Age | a time period characterized by the use of bronze |
| The Iron Age | the age that occurred after the Bronze Age marked by the use of iron |
| Metallurgy | concerning metal |
| What happened to the women's status? | It decreased after the Agricultural Era and continued to diminish. Screw you male population :) |
| hunting and gathering | when people hunted and gathered food |
| What is period one? | 8000 B.C.E to 600 B.C.E |
| Jericho | one of the earliest forms of civilizations in modern day Israel |
| Llamas. What's up with them? | They were the only domesticated animals in the America's |
| What is a beast of burden? | An animal that can be domesticated and carry things, like people |
| Catal Huyuk | one of the first civilizations |
| Job specialization | people began to specialize in jobs |
| Geography | where things are ad how people affected them |
| Cuneiform | wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Mesopotamian writing |
| Patriarchal | A system mainly controlled by men, that is why it failed :) |
| Hammurabi's Code | Well preserved Babylonian law. It's best known for being very strict. |
| Social Classes | a division of society based on social and economic status |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | an epic poem fro Mesopotamia |
| Social Stratification | when society ranks people in a hierarchy |
| Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods |
| What is diffusion? | the spreading of one culture to another |
| What is the Nile? Where is it located? | The Nile is located in northern Africa that provided food, farming fishing, trade, and transportation to ancient Egyptians |
| What is the Tigress and Euphrates? What affect did it have on ancient culture? | The land between these two rivers made up Mesopotamia, an ancient river valley civilization. The soil was very rich in this area. |
| What is considered to be the Old Kingdom? | In ancient Egyptian civilization it is considered to be from the third dynasty to the sixth dynasty. Egyptian kings were considered to be gods. Also best known for it's accomplishments in art & archiecture |
| What is considered to be the Middle Kingdom? | The period that is best known for |
| What is the New Kingdom? | also known as the Egyptian empire |
| What is a pharaoh? | An ancient Egyptian ruler, said to have power from the gods. |
| What is mummification? | An ancient Egyptian ritual where they fixed up their rulers for life after death. They looked like they were wrapped in toilet paper. |
| What are the pyramids? | In ancient Egypt, rulers had slaves build them triangular big structures. |
| What are hieroglyphics? | a formal writing system, used by ancient Egyptians |
| What is a Ziggurat? | it looks like the picture I tried and put on here |
| An ancient Egyptian step pyramid? | it also looks like a picture I tried and put on here |
| What is the Indus River Valley Civilization? | it stretches across present day India, and was a civilization |
| Caste system? | A system in the previously mentioned civilization that made people be born into a caste that they could not get out of |
| What is Mohenjo-Daro ? | the largest city in the Indus River valley civilization |
| Hinduism? | A polytheistic religion, that is prominent in India. |
| What type of trade did these people do? | long distance trade |
| What is the Zhou Dynasty? | The longest lasting Chinese dynasty, said they were their because of the mandate of heaven |
| What is the dynastic cycle? | every Chinese dynasty went through its own culture changes. Dynasties rose and fell. |
| What is the Mandate of Heaven? | the belief that heaven granted emperors their right to rule on their ability to govern well |
| What belief did Hebrews introduce? | Monotheism |
| The Han dynasty? | The Golden Age of China, they established the silk road |
| What are the Bantu migrations? | People that migrated, and had a big effect on modern language |
| What impact did Phoenicians have on what I'm doing right now? | They created a similar alphabet to the one I'm currently using. |
| What is Harappa? | an Indus River Valley city, very fancy |
| What is Zoroastrianism? | Believes in good and evil |
| What does the end of the last Ice Age do in correspondence to the Agricultural Revolution? | At the end of the last Ice Age began the Agricultural Revolution |
| What is a broad spectrum diet? | the diet that refers to hunting and gathering |
| What and where is the Fertile Crescent? | Fertile Crescent is a crescent shaped region with fertile soil located in North east Africa |
| Teosinte? | Young corn |
| Bantu Migrations? | The Bantu people migrated spreading their culture with them. Especially there languages. |
| What is the secondary products revolution? | When people began to use the products of animals for there own good. Ex. milk, eggs, fur |
| Banpo? | An early civilization discovered by archeologists |
| Pastoral Societies? | Societies that move around for game or vegetation they need. |
| Catalhuyuk? | an early civilization |
| Stateless societies? | societies with no direct for of gov. |
| Chiefdoms? | Societies with a chief as a ruler. They usually had the same freedoms as they did in earlier societies. |
| What is Period 1? | 8000 B.C.E-600 B.C.E |
| What is Period 2? | 600 B.C.E-600 C.E |
| What is Period 3? | 600 C.E- 1450 C.E |
| What is Period 4? | 1450-1750 C.E |
| What is Period 5? | 1750-1900 |
| What is Period 6? | 1900-Present |
| What is Eurasia? | The continents of Europe and Asia |
| What is Afro-Eurasia | The continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe |
| What are the America's? | North and South America |
| What places are people referring to when they say The Pacific? | the Solomon island near New Guinea, the Philippines, Indonesia |
| What was the sequence of human migration across the planet? | Out of Africa, into Eurasia, into Australia, into the Americas, and into the Pacific |
| How did Austronesian migrations differ from other early patterns of human movement? | People traveled on boats for the first time in human history. They also brought plants and such with them. |
| In what ways did a hunting and gathering economy shape other aspects of Palaeolithic societies? | There was equality between the genders. Women collected the most food. Population was smaller |
| Why did some Paleolithic peoples abandon earlier, more nomadic ways and begin to live a more settled life? | People began to collect grain, and the Agricultural Revolution began |
| What accounts for the emergence of agriculture after countless millennia of human life without it? | The global warming after the last Ice Age made it easier for certain plants to survive |
| In what different ways did the Agricultural Revolution take shape in different parts of the world? | in some areas there was a wider variety of plants and animals making it easier for them to develop faster |
| In what ways did agriculture spread? Where and why was it resisted? | Agriculture spread in most places, yet in some areas that were harsh to farming,agriculture was resisted |
| What was revolutionary about the Agricultural Revolution? | Out of the Agricultural revolution civilizations emerged. |
| How did chiefdoms differ from stateless agricultural village societies? | Agricultural village societies were based on a lineage system. Chiefdoms had leaders that had power, but were not strict |
| When and where did the first civilizations occur? | Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C, Nile River Valley around the same time, Norte Chico in Peru, Indus River Valley,in China, the Omlec |
| What was the role of cities in early civilizations? | it made things become less personal,people were no longer growing their own food |
| In what ways have historians tried to explain the origins of patriarchy? | Women being regulated to secondary tasks, fewer ways to assert themselves, and decrease in belief in goddesses |
| What were the sources of state authority in the first civilizations? | kings or queens given power from the gods |
| In what ways did Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations differ from each other? | Climate, resources,literature |
| What features of civilization, described in Chapter 3, do these documents illustrate? | Law, writing systems, religion |
| What similarities and differences between Mesopotamia and Egypt can you infer from these documents? How might you account for these differences? | The differed in religion, writing system, and forms of government. |
| What elements of thought and practice from these early pieces of literature resonate still in the twenty-first century? What elements remain strange or unfamiliar to modern sensibilities? | The thoughts of patriarchy still exist. The belief in multiple gods, and rulers believed to be gods is a strange concept in the twenty-first century |
| What dimensions of these civilizations' social life and religious thinking are not addressed in these documents? What other perspectives might you want to seek out? | The life of women is not properly portrayed in these documents |
| Historians often use documents to provide insights or information that authors did not intend to convey. How might these documents be used in this fashion? What are the advantages and dangers of the use of ancient texts? | A historian might misinterpret the thoughts of the author. A historian might also believe what the author intended as fiction to be fact. Yet ancient scripts might provide useful information about that time period. |
| Quipu? | a series of knotted cords, used for accounting and perhaps as a form of writing in Norte Chico civilization |
| Oracle Bones? | In Chinese civilization, animal bones were heated and the cracks then interpreted as prophecies |
| Osiris? | Egyptian god of the dead |
| Hyskos? | a pastoral group of unknown ethnicity that invaded Egypt and ruled in the north from 1650-1535 B.C |
| Nubia? | a civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile Valley noted for the development of an Alphabetic writing system |
| Hebrews? | Jews duh. |
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