HIST-H 105 Lecture 1: Ch. 1 Vocab (Aug. 11)
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Also, understand their significances to events in this chapter. Associate them with major ideas, trends, or changes. Beringia (p. 4: definition: a land bridge created by receding oceans, connecting asia and north. America, a region now submerged beneath the bering sea, named by modern archaeologists: significance: used by paleo-indians to pursue (hunt) giant mammals like mastodons and woolly mammoths and for migration to uninhabited land. Physical isolation in this region of small migrating groups caused them to stop hosting communicable diseases (smallpox, measles, major epidemics), possibly due to lack of contact with domestic animals. Agricultural revolution (p. 6: definition: the gradual shift from hunting and gathering to cultivating basic food crops that occurred worldwide from 7000 to 9000 years ago. This transition resulted in sedentary living, population growth, and establishment of permanent villages: significance: the availability of more reliable stores of food helped liberate nomadic groups from the insecurities of hunting and gathering.
