Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Country vs Continent |
Country-A region that is identified as a distinct entity. Continent-A very large land mass on earth. |
|
Latitude vs Longitude |
Latitude-Imaginary that circle the globe from East to West, measuring an area's distance North and South of the Equator. Longitude-Imaginary lines that circle the globe from North to South measuring an area's distance East or West of the Prime Meridian. |
|
Prime Meridian vs Equator |
Prime Meridian-The line of longitude at 0 degrees that runs through Greenwich England. Equator-The line of latitude midway between the North and South poles. |
|
Continents and Oceans |
Oceans-Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, India Ocean, Arctic Ocean. Continents-Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America |
|
Prehistory |
Time Period before written history. |
|
Australopithecines |
They were around 4 billion years ago and look like a monkey/human combination. |
|
Cro-Magnon |
The word to describe the first early modern human. |
|
Agricultural Revolution |
The time when humans went from being hunter/gatherers to farming for food. |
|
Anthropologist |
Studies all aspects of man kind whether ancient or modern. |
|
Archaeologist |
Studies remains of ancient societies. |
|
Artifact |
Anything influenced/made by humans. |
|
Carbon 14 Dating |
Most precise form of dating. |
|
Homo-Habilis |
Closest known ancestor to modern humans. |
|
Homo-Erectus |
Controlled fire and used it to their advantage. |
|
Technology |
Anything humans have created to solve a problem or complete a process; tools that extend capacities for the purpose of survival and comfort, in economics, it is the pool of existing knowledge. |
|
Neanderthals |
Neanderthals are one of the earliest forms of humans who were hunter/gatherers instead of farmers. |
|
Multi-Regional vs Out of Africa |
Multi-Regional-It is where homo-erectus left Africa and moved to different parts of the world and develop into modern humans. Out of Africa-That is where all humans came out of Africa and created what a lot of countries use for farming. |
|
Domesticate |
Where people have animals or plants and they breed or plant them with certain genes to help human survival. |
|
Fertile Crescent |
A crescent-shaped area offertile land in the Middle East extending from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf. |
|
Theocracy |
A system of government where the priest rule in the name of god or a god |
|
Bronze |
A metal that is a used to make tools and also used as money |
|
Hammurabi & Code of Law |
Hammurabi was the sixth Amorite king of Babylon and his code was pretty much an eye for an eye |
|
Second Illness |
|
|
Indus River Valley |
|