World History Quiz

50 Terms you need to know.

Symbolic Thinking

Using images or gestures to represent ideas. The significance is how it allows us to represent physical absent concepts.

Herto Skulls

Found in 2004, in Morocco

160,00 year old fossilized human remains near the humans or herto. Important because it represents the oldest atomically modern humans.

Natural Selection

Organisms with traits best suited for the environment survive and reproduce more successfully than others. This is important because it shows how we were able to evolve.

Mungo Woman

Remains of an indigenous Australian woman at Lake Mungo found by Jim Bowler. This is important because it changed concepts on Australian history,

Genus

A basic rank in biology that holds close related species. Important because it helps us see organized complexity of life.

Genetic Mutation

A permanent change in an organisms dna sequence. Shows us how humans changed.

JM Bowler

Found the lake mungo remains. This changed our thinking on Australian history.

Larynxes

Voice box, allows humans to speak

Evolution

Continuous process which the inherited characteristics of bio populations change over successive generations. Showed how we changed over time and how we got better.

Blomblos Cave

Cave in South Africa that holds some of the most oldest known evidence of human art and symbolic thinking. Significance is we see the arts of the past and helped us see animals that lived inside and around cave.

Mitocondrial Eve

Most recent common ancestor where all humans inherited her mitochondrial DNA

Ocher

Natural pigment used by humans with a cultural history for over 300000 years.

Homo sapiens sapiens

Modern Humans

Animal Classification

classification that observes DNA mapped science that shows evolutionary history in animals

Jebel Faya

Limestone rock site in United Arab Emirates that preserves evidence of human habitation. Historical site that shows humans movement out of Africa

Mungo Man

Man Human remains found by mungo river in Australia. 40,000 BCE

Tanzania

place that has lots of early human prehistory evidence. Big discoveries about big human bones.

Blade making technology

Shows leap in human understanding. Evolved from making stone and bone tools to carbon steel and modern industrial cutting solutions. Shows development.

Charles Darwin

Introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Hominins

Modern humans and their extinct ancestors but not chimpanzees, gorillas, or orangutans. All relavites related to a tribe

Paleontologist

Scientist that studies the history of life on earth by using plant and animal fossils

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)

Core molecule in cells that carries genetic instructions used in growth and development. Shows where humans came from.

Subspecies

a regional population within a species that shares common traits and can be interbreed.

200000 years ago

evolutionary emergence of anatomically modern humans

Beneficial Traits

Traits that are good for animals and humans in the environment they live in.

Herto Site

Place in Ethiopia that scientists discovered remains of first atamocially modern humans.

Family

A unit with parents children and blood relatives

mtDNA

Material found in cellular mitochondria that is passed down exclusively through maternal line. From Mitochondrial Eve.

Species

A classification that groups individual organisms capable of interbreeding.

BCE, CE, BC, AD

Before common era, Common Era, Before Christ, After Death (The periods of time we use)

order of settling the world

Follows Migrations of Homo sapiens out of africa

Religion

System of beliefs values and practices

Cro Magnon

early atomically modern humans that lived in Europe during the upper palethic period.

Woman with the horn

A 20,000 to 25,000-year-old limestone bas-relief sculpture of a nude, voluptuous female figure in France.

Neanderthals

Extinct humans that lived in Europe and Asia, shorter and bulkier

Beringia

Massive land bridge that connected Asia and North America during the last ice age

Monte Verde

Site in Chile that challenged a theory on how humans first populated americas.

Stratigraphy

Branch of geology that studies rock layers to figure out what time fossils lived like oldest at bottom and youngest at top.

Carbon 14

Can help us determine ages of ancient organic materiels

Chauvet Cave

Contains oldest and most preserved cave art known to history

In France

Bolas

Throwing weapons made of weights tied to chords designed to catch animals by connecting to there legs

Atlatl

Javelin lever tool that helped us throw spears at high speeds

Clovis Tech Complex

Tool making tradition for its sharp stone spear points.

Stone spearpoints that were in use around 11,000 BCE

Agriculture

Science of growing and farming crops

Domestication

process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use with breeding and care.

Natufians

First people to cultivate crops

9500 BCE in the Middle East.

neolithic

The second Stone Age

Jericho

First walled in settlement

Çatalhöyük

Worlds largest early settlement around 5000 people in 6000 BCE.