AP World History Exam : Period 1 ( Latest 2023 – 2024 )
Actual Questions and Answers ( Verified Answers )
1. hunting and gathering: Means of obtaining subsistence by humans before the
mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization
- civilization: Societies with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce
food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and man- ufacturing groups
3. neolithic: The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which
adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished
4. nomadic societies: livestock hearding societies that do not have a permanent
settlement. normally found on the fringes of civilized (urban) societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies
- culture: Combination of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from
human social interaction
6. agrarian revolution: Occurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from
hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture
7. pastoralism: A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated
animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies
8. Catal Huyuk: Early urban culture/civiization based on sedentary agriculture;
located in modern southern Turkey; larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification
9. Bronze Age: From 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.; increased use of plow, metalworking;
development of wheeled vehicles, writing
- Mesopotamia: Literally "between the rivers"; the civilization that arose in the
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