Mrs. Wetzl's First Test
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Created by:
ucacheer on September 7, 2009
Classes:
Ms. Boland's AP Human Geo Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 History is... | guesswork, inaccurate, interpretation |
| Theory | explains an observation |
| Big Bang | 20 billion years ago; expanding universe |
| Prehistoric | before human documentation |
| Historic | since human documentation |
| Chronology | order of events |
| First cave drawings | 35,000 B.C.E |
| First writing | 6,000 B.C.E |
| Origin of Mankind Theories | Divine Creation, Evolution, Von Daniken |
| Sir Charles Darwin | English naturalist- Evolution |
| Alfred Russel | Theory of evolution-published book after Darwin so did not get credit |
| 1831 | Darwin went to the Galapagos Islands |
| On the Origin of Species by Means of Natual Selection | Darwin's first book |
| All life forms today evolved from simpler life forms | 1st idea in Darwin's book |
| Survival of the Fittest | 2nd idea in Darwin's book |
| Man is part of evolutionary process | 3rd idea in Darwin's book- controvesial |
| 1871 | Darwin's second book- Descent of Man- evolution of mankind, natural selection |
| Lucy and OH62 | walked erect |
| Lucy | 3.5 million years |
| OH62 | 1.8 million years |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone |
| Paleolithic Age | 2,000,000-10,000 B.C.E |
| Java Man | 750,000-500,000 B.C.E |
| Homo Habilus | Man with ability- OH62 |
| Homo Erectus | Java Man (upper leg bone formed differently), Peking Man |
| Artifact | anything used or made by mankind |
| Peking Man | 400,000 B.C.E- 32 different skeletons |
| Fire and Weapons | Peking Man |
| Neanderthal Man | 70,000 B.C.E |
| Buried Dead in Fetal Position | Neanderthal Man |
| Homo Sapien | Man with knowledge- Neanderthal Man and Cro Magnon Man |
| Cro Magnon Man | 50,000-40,000 B.C.E |
| Clans and Drew on Cave Walls | Cro Magnon Man |
| Mesolithic | Middle Stone |
| Mesolithic Era | 8,000-6,000 B.C.E |
| Glacial Recession (Ice Age Ends) | Mesolithic Era |
| Neolithic | New Stone |
| Neolithic Era | 6,000 B.C.E |
| Specialized Tools and Domesticated Animals | Neolithic Era |
| Neolithic Revolution | gradual shift from food hunting to food producing |
| Advantages of Neolithic Revolution | permanence, accumulation of stuff, time to experiment and learn, government |
| Food, Clothes, Reproduction, Shelter, Water, Tools/Weapons, Government/Leader, Acceptance/Friends/Family, Fun, Religion, Arts/Self-Expression, Communication | Needs of Man |
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