AP World History Unit 1 Chapter 1

the deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber

the ability to walk upright on two legs

In Southern Turkey. Houses were joined together. Traded flint, obsidian, and jewelry. foreshadowed cities

Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers

Cultivation of crops carried out with simple hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes.

development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances

Large and elaborate agricultural settlement, round mud and brick houses, surrounded by a massive stone wall, traded salt, sulfur, and pitch, foreshadowed cities

A 40% complete skeleton discovery of an Australopithecus afarensis, or a species within the category of hominid. She was discovered in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia. 32-million-year-old remains.

Pottery, metallurgy, and textile production. Pottery was a medium artistic expression as well as a source for utensils and materials, metallurgy included copper which was workable for tools, and textile production was threaded or woven fabric done by women which became an important enterprise.

8000 BCE to 3000 BCE; move from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles and town and city life; small communities; specialization of labor

(750,000 BCE - 8,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age. A period of time in human history characterized by the use of stone tools and the use of hunting and gathering as a food source.

A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals to use for food, clothing, and shelter

belief in multiple Gods

Eyewitness accounts of history. They include letters, diaries, speeches, historical documents and interviews.

Each person specializes in the task that he or she is good at performing

A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded