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1-27 APworldkeyterms
Apodaca, Richard 1st 1-27 AP World Key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prehistory – no written documents; History: written proof of history | Prehistory vs. history |
| Social etiquette, religion, education, literature | Features of civilization |
| Austrolopithecus, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens | Stages of hominid development |
| Humans originated from Africa and proliferated vs. originated from Africa but multiple geographical locations first 100 million years | “Out of Africa” thesis vs. multiregional thesis |
| Old Stone Age | Paleolithic Era |
| New Stone Age | Neolithic Era |
| A group of people sharing common ancestry | Family units, clans, tribes |
| Nomadic, small communities and population, no political system, economic distribution is more equal | Foraging societies |
| Move place to place according to environment; adapts to environment | Nomadic hunters/gatherers |
| Period of time where Earth was covered partly in ice | Ice Age |
| Changes when agriculture started | Civilization |
| Farming uses; start of agriculture | Neolithic Revolution |
| Farming system where animals are taken to different locations in order to find fresh pastures | Domestication of plants and animals |
| Slash-and-burn; once land is depleted, moved on to let soil recover | Nomadic pastoralism |
| Farmers that migrate instead of settling after using up the land. | Migratory farmers |
| Live with husband’s family. Traced through father’s lineage | Partrilineal/patrilocal |
| replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops | Irrigation systems |
| craft and practice of working with metals to create parts or structures. It requires skill and the use of many different types of tools | Metalworking |
| to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture | Ethnocentrism |
| Looking for food | Foraging |
| Domestication of plants and animals | Sedentary agriculture |
| process by which people take an area of land to use for agriculture, only to abandon it a short time later | Shifting cultivation |
| Trees cut down, plots made for agriculture | Slash-and-burn agriculture |
| System in which one belongs to mother’s lineage | Matrilineal |
| spread of ideas and material culture, especially if these occur independently of population movement | Cultural diffusion |
| Creative innovations of new solutions to old and new problems | Independent invention |
| specialisation of co-operative labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles, intended to increase efficiency of output. | Specialization of labor |
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Richard Apodaca
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