Chapter Review Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. The transition from nomadic tribes to permanently located society
  2. 4. Refers to the extinction of large animals/mammals.
  3. 7. small sculptures of women usually with exaggerated sexual features created with certain interest in fertility; suggest intrest in generation of new life; created to increase fertility; first form of religion
  4. 9. A ceremonial site found in Turkey made by hunting and gathering people around 11,600 years ago.
  5. 11. An example of an early agricultural village society, where equality was still was still present and there were no set leaders. This village showed signs of very few inequalities, men and women were both allowed to do a variety of tasks.
  6. 12. An event set around 4000 BCE where people furthered the technological changes brought about by the Agricultural revolution. Important advances include using animals for more than their meat and learning how to ride horses and camels.
  7. 15. People who were believed to be especially skilled at dealing with the spirit world.
  8. 16. A ceremonial dance, usually undergone with the aid of psychoactive drugs to put the person in a trance-like state.
  9. 18. was part of the hunting and gathering society of the Yahi, who managed to keep their culture and not convert to agriculture.
  10. 19. The ancestor of maize/corn.
  11. 20. A form of society where the people are under the influence of a central power, the chief. This chief, unlike a king, relied on status and persuasion to convince their followers to do something.
Down
  1. 1. This refers to Paleolithic hunting-gathering societies. Not because they had so much, but because they needed so little.
  2. 2. An elaborate and complex outlook on life created by Australia's Aboriginal people. Dreamtime viewed everything in vibrations, or echos, of ancient events, linking current people to particular places and to events in the past.
  3. 5. migrations were the last to take place, around 3500 years ago. These migrations were mostly waterborne and resulted in the habitation of Madagascar, the Philippines, and many other islands.
  4. 6. An area of fertile land located in Southwest Asia that contained a great variety of plants and animals. It was the first area to fully experience the Agricultural Revolution and would later give way for the first civilization, Mesopotamia.
  5. 8. The Bantu, beginning in southern Nigeria, began to migrate south and east, bringing their agricultural skills with them. This process diffused agriculture to southern and eastern Africa and drove away Paleolithic-like people.
  6. 10. Nomadic societies that mainly relied on animals, such as sheep, goats, cattle, horses, and camels, instead of farming.
  7. 13. A Paleolithic culture that originated in the Americas. This culture was most known for being hunters of large mammals such as bison and mammoths. This culture went extinct with the extinction of several species of large mammals, including mammoths.
  8. 14. An early agricultural village that underwent an explosion of technological innovation.
  9. 17. Refers to spread of ideas, beliefs, and technologies among people.