AP World History Unit 1 Study Guide Latest 2022 Already Passed
What is the first recognizable cultural activity of human beings? ✔✔Stone tool making
Most early human activity centered on...? ✔✔Gathering food
What is the relationship between tool making and meat eating in the Stone Age? ✔✔The increase in meat eating is linked to increased tool making
The development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events are the subject of...? ✔✔History
Since the foraging lifestyle was not particularly unpleasant or hard, foragers had a great deal of time left for...? ✔✔Socializing, tool making, and creating art
What is NOT true about the transition to plant cultivation and animal domestication 10,000 years ago? ✔✔It was rapid and complete
The most efficient method of clearing land for agriculture was by using...? ✔✔Fire
Women played a major role in the transition to crop cultivation because....? ✔✔They were the primary gatherers of wild plant foods
The earliest transition to agriculture was...? ✔✔In the Middle East
Scholars feel that early domestication of animals did not provide...? ✔✔Transportation
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The American continents contained very few domesticated animals because...? ✔✔There were few species suitable for domestication
The gradual adoption of agriculture transformed the world most by causing...? ✔✔Global population increase
How does the chapter suggest that farmers were able to displace foragers from fertile lands...?✔✔The gradual peaceful infiltration on fertile lands
The religions of farming communities tended to focus on....? ✔✔An Earth Mother or female deity
Recent discoveries of large stones and burial chambers may indicate...? ✔✔Ancestor rituals
The growth of settled agricultural communities resulted in....? ✔✔Trade and craft specialization
The Neolithic town Catal Huyuk prospered from...? ✔✔Long-distance trade in obsidian, pottery, and cloth
Metal working in the late Neolithic period was used for...? ✔✔Decoration or in ceremonies
What is NOT generally considered to be an attribute of civilization? ✔✔The absence of social class divisions
Early societies developed civilizations in the floodplains of great rivers because the rivers and floodplains provided...? ✔✔Fertile silt and water for agriculture
Creation myths often provide a society with a...? ✔✔Satisfactory explanation of its environment
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