AP World History Exam - Unit 1 Latest -

AP World History Exam - Unit 1 ( Latest -

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• Prehistory vs. history

Answer: Prehistory was the period of time before writing had been invented while history is any time after writing had been invented where humans now know exactly what had happened rather than making assumptions

2. Features of civilization:

Answer

1: complex institutions

2: advanced technology

3: advanced city

4: written communication 5: specialization of labor

• Stages of hominid development

Answer:

- STAGE 1 (4,000,000 BCE - 1,000,000 BCE): Hominids / Australopithecines [had

apposable thumbs] / Homo Habilis ["man of skills", found in east Africa, created stone tools]

• STAGE 2 (1,600,000 BCE - 30,000 BCE): Homo Erectus ["upright human being",

bipedalism, larger and more varied tools, first hominid to migrate from Africa to Europe and Asia, first to use fire - 500,000 BCE]

• STAGE 3 (200,000 BCE - 10,000 BCE): Homo Sapiens ["wise human being"] /

Neanderthrals (200,000 BCE - 30,000 BCE) [first to bury their dead, made clothes from animal skins, lived in caves and tents] / Cro-Magnons (40,000 BCE - 10,000 BCE) [homo sapiens sapiens = "wise, wise humans", replaced Neanderthrals]

• "Out of Africa" thesis vs. multiregional thesis

Answer: The "Out of Africa" thesis states that Homo sapiens sapiens emerged in Africa and then migrated from there, and is the most widely accepted theory by scientists, while the multiregional thesis states homo sapiens sapiens emerged simutaneously throughtout the world and descended from earlier hominid groups that had already left Africa

• Paleolithic Era

Answer:

• "Old Stone Age"
• a long period of human development before the development of agriculture

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• Neolithic Era

Answer:

• "New Stone Age"

- 10,000 - 4000 BCE

• was marked by the discovery and mastery of agriculture

• Family units, clans, tribes

Answer: A group of people sharing common ancestry

• Foraging societies

Answer:

• nomadic
• small communities / population
• no political system
• economic distribution is more equal
• acquire their subsistence from the resources around them, without cultivating the

earth

• Nomadic hunters/gatherers

Answer:

• a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from

place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land

• normally the men would hunt and the women would be the gatherers

• Ice Age

Answer: A cold period marked by episodes of extensive glaciation

• Civilization

Answer:

• literally means "living in cities"
• contains five features of civilitzation: complex institutions, advanced technology,

advanced city, written communcation, and specialization of labor

• Neolithic Revolution

Answer:

• began around 8,000 BCE
• it was the gradual shift from a nomadic lifestyle of hunting and gathering to a settled,

stationary lifestyle with agricultural production and domestication of animals

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• Domestication of plants and animals

Answer:

• the taming of animals and plants for human use, such as work or as food
• this allowed the humans to remain in one place

• Nomadic pastoralism

Answer:

• a form of agriculture where livestock are herded either seasonally or continuously in

order to find fresh pastures on which to graze

• commonly practiced in regions with little arable land

• Migratory farmers

Answer: Farmers that continue to migrate, instead of settling, after using up the land

• Patrilineal/patrilocal

Answer:

• patrilineal relates to a social system in which inheritance rights and family descent is

traced though the father

• patrilocal refers to the pattern where married couples live with or near the hus-

band's parents/family

• Irrigation systems

Answer: Replacement of rainfall with water from another source (like natural ponds, lakes, streams, and wells) in order to grow crops

• Metalworking

Answer: The process of working with metals to create individual parts, assemblies, or large scale structures

• Ethnocentrism

Answer: The tendency to view one's own culture and ethnic group as superior to all other cultures and ethnic groups and as the standard for judging the worth of the others foreign ways

• Foraging

Answer: The act of searching for food and provisions

• Sedentary agriculture

Answer:

• farming system in which the farmer remains settled in one place
• domestication of plants and animals
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