Western Civ Exam Review Flashcards
What are Hunter Gatherers?
Peoples who traveled and relied on the environment for food. These people hunted and gathered berries
Agriculture
The act of planting and growing food
What is Papua New Guinea?
A place off of Australia where the people still rely on hunting and gathering
Who is Jared Diamond?
An American geographer that lived in and studied Papua New Guinea and is the author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
What is Division of Labor?
The method of hunting and gathering where the males hunt and females gather nutritious foods from trees, bushes, and the ground.
What is the Domestication of Plants?
The act of planting and growing crops to eat or use for medical purposes
What is the Domestication of Animals?
The act of having animals work or be tamed for multiple purposes
What is Sago?
Sago is a starch that is obtained from palm trees
Who is Yali
Asked Diamond why white men have so many belongings and why they didn’t
Paleolithic Age:
Lasted from 2.6 million years ago to about 12,000 years ago
Neolithic Age
The final division of the Stone Age
Fertile Crescent
A place in the mediterranean where there was the most fertile soil shaped like a crescent
Tool making and Advanced Technology
The way ancient peoples made tools
Cuneiform
The oldest know writing system
Pyramids
Ancient pyramid shaped tombs
