HIST 410 Midterm Exam - LATEST UPDATE GRADED A+
Declension - (answers)ways in which humans have destroyed & degraded their environment
Hybridity - (answers)argues that nature & culture are entwined forces
Time Scales - (answers)short scales: current - 9 years
historic scales: 10-499 years
long scales: 500-9,999 years
prehistoric scales: 10,000- million years
Geological/cosmic: millions-billions of years
Anthropocene - (answers)most recent time period in geological history --> time when
humans become dominate force impacting Earth
Energy - (answers)capacity to do work
Fire - (answers)first tool that set humans apart from everything else
Cooking - (answers)set apart humans and animals --> done by fire
Bering Land Bridge - (answers)*ice bridge connecting Asia and North America
*25-15 thousand years ago
Upper Paleolithic - (answers)*fire becomes a huge part of human society
*40-20 thousand years ago
*stonework
*human burial
*cave paintings
, Neolithic - (answers)*10,000 years ago
*permanent living sites
*rapid domestication of plants & animals
Extinction of Mega Fauna - (answers)*caused by over-hunting and climate change
*11,000 years ago
Developing Diseases - (answers)*parasitic; self-replicate
*don't intentionally kill people
"Edenic" or "Pristine" myth - (answers)untouched, pure land not impacted by people
Land tenure - (answers)cultural idea used to express who controls land
*more land, more power
Native American Landscape Alterations - (answers)Native Americans believed that they were
apart of nature. They also believed that the land was sacred and have been given to them to
live on and to use
Cahokia - (answers)*Beni Province
*large, complex mounds outside of St. Louis
*massive city
Tenochtitlan - (answers)*capital of Aztec Empire
*larger than Paris in 16th century
Smallpox - (answers)*outbreak in mid 1500's-1600's
Declension - (answers)ways in which humans have destroyed & degraded their environment
Hybridity - (answers)argues that nature & culture are entwined forces
Time Scales - (answers)short scales: current - 9 years
historic scales: 10-499 years
long scales: 500-9,999 years
prehistoric scales: 10,000- million years
Geological/cosmic: millions-billions of years
Anthropocene - (answers)most recent time period in geological history --> time when
humans become dominate force impacting Earth
Energy - (answers)capacity to do work
Fire - (answers)first tool that set humans apart from everything else
Cooking - (answers)set apart humans and animals --> done by fire
Bering Land Bridge - (answers)*ice bridge connecting Asia and North America
*25-15 thousand years ago
Upper Paleolithic - (answers)*fire becomes a huge part of human society
*40-20 thousand years ago
*stonework
*human burial
*cave paintings
, Neolithic - (answers)*10,000 years ago
*permanent living sites
*rapid domestication of plants & animals
Extinction of Mega Fauna - (answers)*caused by over-hunting and climate change
*11,000 years ago
Developing Diseases - (answers)*parasitic; self-replicate
*don't intentionally kill people
"Edenic" or "Pristine" myth - (answers)untouched, pure land not impacted by people
Land tenure - (answers)cultural idea used to express who controls land
*more land, more power
Native American Landscape Alterations - (answers)Native Americans believed that they were
apart of nature. They also believed that the land was sacred and have been given to them to
live on and to use
Cahokia - (answers)*Beni Province
*large, complex mounds outside of St. Louis
*massive city
Tenochtitlan - (answers)*capital of Aztec Empire
*larger than Paris in 16th century
Smallpox - (answers)*outbreak in mid 1500's-1600's
