March Exam Flashcards
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Role of Climate Change in human evolution
Made Megafauna extinct, land went underwater during climate change, human’s adapted to climate change. They also had to change in the span of one generation
Bipedalism
Standing on two legs
Australopithecus
An early human relative and the first bipedal organism
Homo Habilis
“Handy Human”
Used objects such as tool to consume meat.
Homo erectus
The first early human to stand up possibly because of the savannah thesis as well as the first human to leave Africa.
Neanderthals
Similar to homo sapiens
took care of young
had burials
Made art
Paleolithic Era
Foraging life way
More gender equality as everyone worked together to survive and rise the children
Collective learning
The idea of passing on information and innovations so the next generation can improve upon them.
By using communication and networks people can innovate on ideas together and more people leads to a larger network with more ideas being passed around.
Symbolic Language
complex language that allowed for more accurate descriptions, helped collective learning. Allowed for talking about non concrete ideas.
Systematic agriculture
The shift from hunting to domestication of animals growing of planted food.
Role of Climate Change in agriculture
The warmer, more stable climate allowed for agriculture to be used as a primary source of getting food year after year.
extensification vs intensification
extensification is using different areas to get resources while intensification is working a specific area for resources
trap of sedentism
though the amount of food in an area is running out, the skills to forage are lost, and they need a way to get resources from the land
energy capture
like fire and stuff
Egalitarian
All people are equal and deserve equal rights.
Human migration across the globe
The humans migrated out of africa to Europe and Asia then over the Beirring Strait to the Americas, following the kelp highway to south america.
Foragers/ Hunter Gathers
People that go around in small groups to find food such as berries and other plants.
Nomadic
People that do not settle in one place but move around to different areas.
Animism
The idea that all things, even tree and rocks have a spirt inside of them.
Affluent foragers
Foragers that had a lot of food in a small area, meaning they did not have to travel very far, meaning they were able to settle down.
Domestication
Taming animals so they can be used in agriculture.
Fertile Crescent
the fertile land between tigris and Euphrates. Present day Iraq
River Valley
A fertile area in the valley that a river creates which is very good for use in agriculture.
Characteristics of a Civilization/Complex Society
- Material Wealth
- A military
- Government
- Economy
- Faith/Religion
- Social Structure/social Hierarchy
- Development of organized cities
- Art and intellectual abilities
- Writing/Shared Language