MYP/AP Unit 0 Review

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Hunting and Gathering

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Means of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization

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Civilization

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Societies with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups

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Nomads

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Cattle- and sheep-herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies

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Pastoralism

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A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies

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Mesopotamia

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Literally "between the rivers"; the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys.

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Monotheism

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The exclusive worship of one god; introduced by Jews into Middle Eastern civilization

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Aryans

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Indo-European nomadic, warlike, pastorialists who replaced Harappan civilization

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Huanghe (Yellow) River Basin

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Site of the development of sedentary agriculture in China

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Eglitarian

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Believing in the equality of all peoples

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Neolithic Revolution

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Global conversion to agriculture over hunter-gatherer lifestyles