Big Geography & Peopling of the Earth Flashcards
six periods of time
- first is technological and environmental transformation
technological and environmental transformation
- the beginning to 600 BCE
- 13.75 billion years ago (Big Bang)
- 4.6 billion years ago (Earth formed)
- 65 million years ago (Age of the dinosaurs)
- 3.2 million years ago (Lucy discovered)
radiation theory
- all humans started in Africa, East Ethiopia, and then migrated from there to Asia and Europe then the Americas
neolithic revolution
- group of peoples started to have to move less, didn’t need to move for food because weather warmed up
- farming
- hunter-gatherers (healthier, better families, better teeth, stronger bones)
- farming led to development of civilizations
- farmers (disease, gender inequalities, chronic warfare)
- 8000 BCE
themes
- humans an d environment
- development of cultures
- state building
- expansions
- conflict creation
- economics system
- changing social structures
domestication of plants
- wheat, barely was grown
- believed that farming began in East Asia
- food surplus
- people became less nomadic
middle East
- domestication of larger animals
agricultural settlements
- settlements that started to grow around agriculture
- world becoming civilized
food surplus
- led to language, work, government, religion
- s social stratification (rulers, priests, artisans, merchants, peasants/slaves)
architecture
- ziggurats, ect.
technology
- the wheel
- building of massive temples
- pottery
- the plow
- metals
Bronze Age
- around 3000 BCE
Iron age
- around 1300 BCE
which of the following was NOT a commonly domesticated animal during the neolithic age?
- chicken
one of the effects of the ice age and subsequent warming of the planet was _______
- an increase in plants and animals
which is the correct ORDER of events related to the end of the ice age?
- warming of the planet, increased farming, food surplus, population increase
the main function of governments in new farming settlements during the Neolithic age was to
- protect property and distribute goods
the neolithic revolution was the start of _______
- farming
people in the Americas fell behind during the Neolithic Revolution because ______
- they had not yet invented the wheel
which of the following was NOT an effect of the end of the ice age?
- the proliferation of nomadic cultures
which is NOT a way in which the environment was fundamentally altered as a result of the shift from hunting and gathering to farming that took place during the Neolithic Age?
- people began to use pottery
