AP WORLD STUDY GUIDE UNIT 1 Chapter 1 Before Civilization Around 10‚000 years ago‚ during the Neolithic Age‚ humans began to cultivate plants and to domesticate animals in various parts of the world. Climate change is probably the major reason for the switch from food gathering to food production. Although farming is often harder than hunting and gathering‚ agriculturalists‚ because of their capacity to increase their population‚ expanded across much of the planet at the expense of hunter-gatherers
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minutes or less. Please email me for a longer appointment or if you cannot make the scheduled office hours. Aims This course will provide students with an understanding of six ancient civilizations through archaeological and documentary sources. These six ancient civilizations are Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ the Indus Valley‚ northern China‚ Mesoamerica‚ and the Andes. The course has three related goals: (1) to trace the historical formation and collapse of these six societies; (2) to examine explanations
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A.P. World History Guided Reading 1 "The Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations” TERMS: Culture - Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression Foragers - Hunting and food gathering people Animal domestication - The killing of animals for food Pastorialism - Way of life dependent on large herds of grazing livestock Matrilineal - Kinship with mother Patrilineal - Kinship with father Lineages - the holding of land by large kinship (blood relationship)
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these themes assists you especially when developing a thesis for an essay. Moreover‚ because these themes are overarching‚ they will most likely be the basis of the essay questions. You should always keep these themes in mind when analyzing civilizations and societies‚ both when you are comparing two different societies and when you are tracing change over time within a society or region. Note the interaction/relationship between many themes. Example: Analyze the impact of the Enlightenment
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Chapter 2 Notes I. Something New: The Emergence of Civilizations A. The contrast between “artificial” life as a “civilized” city dweller and the spacious freedom and imagined simplicity of earlier times still resonates today. B. “Civilizations” are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history made possible by the surpluses produced by the Agricultural Revolution. C. The distinctive features of civilizations are: 1. Cities with monumental architecture and populations in the
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by saline action due to a rise of the water table of the Indus River” (Archeological). The artifacts recovered from Mohenjo-Daro have yielded many great insights into the lives of pre-Maurya Empire civilizations making the site priceless to the archeological community (Wheeler 1). Archeologists are still not able to tell exactly who occupied the city but they collectively refer to its people and other nearby cities as the Indus Civilization (Roach). Today it is believed that Mohenjo-Daro was one
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* Civilization Features of civilization: * government * jobs * art/arcitecture * laws * religion * cities * WRITING (very important) * social classes * technology At this time‚ all governments are monarchies. The king usually had divine and unquestionable power until the area over which he rules starts failing. Then people rebel. The earliest writing is in pictures‚ mostly caligraphy and such. The first to develop writing is most
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complexion with long heads and rather flat noses but otherwise of regular features. Miscegenation with the earlier Negroids may be the reason for the dark or black pigmentation of the skin and flat noses. The Austrics laid the foundation of Indian civilization. They
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Fertile Crescent ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA- GEOGRAPHY POSITIVE abundant amount of clay‚ easy till-able soil‚ water supply from Tigris-Euphrates Rivers NEGATIVE few natural resources‚ minimal protection from deserts and mountains City-States SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION‚ BELIEVED TO BE SETTLED . 3000 B.C. DIVIDED INTO CITY-STATES HELPED TO DEVELOP THE FIRST FORM OF ORGANIZED RELIGION CREATED ONE OF THE EARLIEST FORM OF WRITING ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA- SUMERIAN CITY-STATES ALWAYS IN CONSTANT CONFLICT OVER WATER RIGHTS
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The demise of the Classic Maya‚ the Polynesia of Easter Island or the Harappans of the Indus Valley to name a few‚ offer one of the best examples of how population growth can contribute to the collapse of the environment and eventually to an entire civilization. The demise of the ancient Maya society offers one of the best examples of how population growth has contributed to the collapse of an entire civilization. First and foremost‚ the Maya
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