Soc Sci S2 All Vocab Flashcards
A warm period between ice ages
Interglacial Period ; pg. 22
the first of the three stages of the Holocene and lasted from around 11,700 - 8,236 years ago
Early Holocene Subseries/Subepoch / Greenlandian Stage/Age ; pg. 23
End of the Middle Holocene Subseries and start of the Late Holocene Subseries
4,250 years ago ; pg. 23
The second of three stages of the Holocene that began around 8,236 year ago and ended 4,250 years ago
Middle Holocene Subseries/Subepoch / Northgrippian Stage/Age ; pg. 23
The third of three stages of the Holocene that began around 4,250 years ago and continues to the present
Late Holocene Subseries/Subepoch / Meghalayan Stage/Age ; pg. 23
a vast ice sheet that covers much of North America during the ice ages throughout the Pleistocene
Laurentide Ice Sheet ; pg. 25
End of the Middle Holocene Subseries and start of the Late Holocene Subseries
2250 BCE ; pg. 25
A region in present-day Iraq that was home to some of the earliest agrarian societies
Mesopotamia ; pg. 27
A period in Europe from the collapse of the western part of the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE until around 1500
Middle Ages ; pg. 27
A period from around 1300 to 1850 during which cooler temperatures in various places and times resulted in cooler global temperature on average
Little Ice Age (LIA) ; pg. 27
Early Mesopotamian empire that lasted from around 2334 to 2218 BCE
Akkadian Empire ; pg. 28
A delta spreading over hundreds of miles in the region where the Nile River reaches the Mediterranean Sea that was home to early Egyptian agrarian societies
Nile Delta ; pg. 29
A valley in present-day Pakistan that is home to the Indus River, was the location of some of the world’s earliest agrarian societies
Indus Valley ; pg. 29
A long mountain range that stretched along in the Pacific Rim in South America that was home to early agrarian societies
Andes Mountains ; pg. 29
A large region spanning parts of Mexico and Central America
Mesoamerica ; pg. 29