AP world history final exam

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Out of Africa Theory

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1. The idea is that modern humans emerged in Africa 200,00 to 100,000 years ago and migrated outward from there

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Significance of Lascaux paintings

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1. They are one of the earliest known pieces of artwork and were created during the Paleolithic period in Lascaux France. They showed some of the most important things to these people

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Pangea

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A giant landmass covering almost all of the earth, where all the continents where joined together into one super continent about 200-300 million years ago

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Significance of human tools to mark stages of human development

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Newly created farming tools helped make farming possible. used stone to make tools and used crade objects.

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characteristics of hunting and gathering societies of the paleolithic period

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people were nomadic and followed their food. They thought food/animals were very important to them.

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effects of surplus that the neolithic revolution created

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Led to many dental problems, but allowed for people to be able to no longer be nomadic and start settlements.

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pastoralism

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It was known as a simple herding lifestyle, where people followed a specific herd with the desire to hunt them.

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Roles of woman in Agriculture/Neolithic revolution

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They were a very big part of the process, they did things like marking fields, helping harvest, and creating stone vessels

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Benefits of agriculture

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it allowed people to settle for the first time and no longer have to be nomadic, people could have division labor and social stratifaction

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political, social, economic, and cultural characteristics of Mesopotamia

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Had one main specific ruler, social pyramid with Nobles-commeners (peasants)-slaves,had and economy based on agriculture, they created the oldest text (epic of Gilgamesh) and had very harsh laws and punishments