Soc Sci S2 All Vocab

Question 1

A warm period between ice ages

Answer 1

Interglacial Period ; pg. 22

Question 2

the first of the three stages of the Holocene and lasted from around 11,700 - 8,236 years ago

Answer 2

Early Holocene Subseries/Subepoch / Greenlandian Stage/Age ; pg. 23

Question 3

End of the Middle Holocene Subseries and start of the Late Holocene Subseries

Answer 3

4,250 years ago ; pg. 23

Question 4

The second of three stages of the Holocene that began around 8,236 year ago and ended 4,250 years ago

Answer 4

Middle Holocene Subseries/Subepoch / Northgrippian Stage/Age ; pg. 23

Question 5

The third of three stages of the Holocene that began around 4,250 years ago and continues to the present

Answer 5

Late Holocene Subseries/Subepoch / Meghalayan Stage/Age ; pg. 23

Question 6

a vast ice sheet that covers much of North America during the ice ages throughout the Pleistocene

Answer 6

Laurentide Ice Sheet ; pg. 25

Question 7

End of the Middle Holocene Subseries and start of the Late Holocene Subseries (BCE)

Answer 7

2250 BCE ; pg. 25

Question 8

A region in present-day Iraq that was home to some of the earliest agrarian societies

Answer 8

Mesopotamia ; pg. 27

Question 9

A period in Europe from the collapse of the western part of the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE until around 1500

Answer 9

Middle Ages ; pg. 27

Question 10

A period from around 1300 to 1850 during which cooler temperatures in various places and times resulted in cooler global temperature on average

Answer 10

Little Ice Age (LIA) ; pg. 27

Question 11

Early Mesopotamian empire that lasted from around 2334 to 2218 BCE

Answer 11

Akkadian Empire ; pg. 28

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Nile Delta ; pg. 29

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Indus Valley ; pg. 29

Question 14

A long mountain range that stretched along in the Pacific Rim in South America that was home to early agrarian societies

Answer 14

Andes Mountains ; pg. 29

Question 15

A large region spanning parts of Mexico and Central America

Answer 15

Mesoamerica ; pg. 29

Question 16

A Greek king from Macedonia who conquered Egypt and Persia and then traveled as far as India with his army

Answer 16

Alexander the Great ; pg. 29

Question 17

An abnormally cold year in Europe as a result of volcanic eruptions

Answer 17

536 CE ; pg. 31

Question 18

The concepts that external conditions such as prosperity in the land and perhaps even favorable weather validated the authority of current ruler

Answer 18

Mandate of Heaven ; pg. 32

Question 19

A political system where states establish control over natural resources and people

Answer 19

Colonialism ; pg. 33

Question 20

Periods of lower solar activity identified by a lack of sunspots

Answer 20

Solar Minima ; pg. 33

Question 21

Humanity or other specific group of people move from pre-modern conditions to modern conditions

Answer 21

Modernization ; pg. 35

Question 22

Perennially frozen ground

Answer 22

Permafrost ; pg. 22

Question 23

Pattern in the Earth’s orbit

Answer 23

Milankovitch cycles ; pg. 23

Question 24

Refers to a location of a cave in northeast India where mineral deposits give evidence of a climatic event

Answer 24

Meghalayan ; pg. 25

Question 25

The period that marks a turn toward the cooler temperatures that would continue in the Late Holocene

Answer 25

Mid-Holocene Transition ; pg. 25

Question 26

A devastating plague that decimated the European population

Answer 26

Black Death ; pg. 33

Question 27

The flow of icy water into the ocean

Answer 27

Meltwater Event ; pg. 25