chapter 1 ancient medieval history – Flashcards
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btw 50,000 and 12,000 BCE Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and did what
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moved to china to create distinct regional cultures
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homo habilis did not
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build wood and mud shelters to provide protection from the elements
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developed settled agriculture with sorghum as the principal food crop
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sahel region in Africa
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the mastery of fire had all of the following except
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developed agriculture
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prehistoric cave paintings include
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few images of humans
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humans learned to domesticate animals for all except
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the discovery of fire, which widened the range of food they could eat
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___ required years of energy transfers from mothers to infants through lactation cycles and food production
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homo Erectus children
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food production by humans originated in
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8 separate locations
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when did significant cultural differences emerge among humans
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with the advent of settled agriculture
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during the development of settled agriculture woman were left
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Performing more grueling agricultural labor than men
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early humans in the Americas
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adapted to different ecological niches and created new subsidence strategies
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the fertile crescent refers to
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a region of southwest Asia
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early Homo sapiens hunter gatherers
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formed small bands that were equal
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the differences among humans are primarily
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cultural
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the hominids in east Africa btw 3 AND 4 million years ago
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they would not survive in the present day
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the Homo sapiens 73,000 years ago
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on the verge of total extinction due to rapidly cooling and drying planet
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Agriculture and village life emerged in inland Europe
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as new domesticated crops and animals that could be grown or herded in colder climates were found
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why did early hominids become bipedal
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Environmental changes after the last ice age
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on the islands of Japan
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Converting mud into pottery enabled food to be stored and transported easily
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this doesn't characterize male-female relations among hominid groups
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they adopted practices of gender equality
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? was domesticated In the Fertile Crescent in Southwest Asia
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wild grasses
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a trait that distinguished successful and unsuccessful hominids in survival
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the ability to adapt to changing physical environments
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in comparison w Afro Eurasians, the ppl of the americas were
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more scattered and isolated from her
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Language use among Homo sapiens didn't
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reduce cognitive organization
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y were nomadic pastoralists important to settled agriculturalists
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linked together a wider world
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which hominid arrived first to Asia
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homo erectus
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which skill was developed last by the hominids
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Language
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Pastoralists humans did what
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Domesticated humans, which gave them decisive advantages in transportation and warfare
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an accurate description of the origins of humanity
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homo sapiens successfully domesticated animals and plants
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Advantages that bipedalism offered early hominids except
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allowed them to hunt prey w greater dexterity than other animals
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the first agricultural revolution occurred
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when migratory populations carried seeds to new regions where they could grow abundantly
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human language did what
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Expanded in 19 different languages
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? marked the arrival of Homo sapiens
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Development of language
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the humans in north America used what survival strategie
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hunting animals w chipped blades and large spears
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what animal did ppl partially domesticate in the Americas
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llamas and guinea pigs
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the domestication of animals led to
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some communities to move
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? have not been found among prehistoric humans
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Statues of muscular men
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in the Sahel region in Africa ppl composed ?
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cave paintings
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when Africa got warm and cold 200,000 years ago what happened
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the bigger brain mammals survived
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the domestication of animals and plants depended on
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Accumulated knowledge of plants and animals
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the cro magnon were
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Homo sapiens who replaced the Neanderthals in Europe
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? doesnt characterize human villages as they grew in size
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houses built in circles without interior walls
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early hominids did what
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communicated through gestures
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art allowed Homo sapiens to not do what
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Record info about alliances w other groups
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all of the worlds race have a great deal in common bc
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humans have only recently begun living separately from one another
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what wasnt a domesticated animal in southwest Asia
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horses
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which of the best explains the relative lack of communication between the peoples of America and the pols of Afro -Eurasia after around 12,500 bc
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melting glaciers
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Southwest Asia shows the earliest domestication of
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sheep and goats
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in Europe, agricultural and village life occured along 2 separate paths, what is one of them
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a sea route following the prevailing currents of the Mediterranean
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Australopithecus africans were unique because
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it walked on 2 legs
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true
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Domestication of horses; the formation of communities prompted craft specialization; homo Habilis carried useable rocks; as communities became larger equality became less
