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42 Cards in this Set
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People who study about people, places, and events of the past.
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What are historians?
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People who actually sees some act or happening.
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What is an eyewitness?
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Scientist who studies ancient ruins and artifacts to learn about the past.
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What is an archaeologist?
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Friendly nation that helps another nation in a war.
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What is an ally?
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Scientific name for humans.
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What is Homo sapiens?
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Uncivilized people.
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What are barbarians?
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Land just beyond the settled edge of a nation
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What is a frontier?
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Settlements people made in lands away from their own nations
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What were colonies?
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Large settled area conquered and controlled by a single power
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What is an empire?
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North America, Central America, and South America
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What was the New World?
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Places where the first known civilizations were established
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What were river valleys?
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Way to measure the passage of days, months, and years
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What is a calendar?
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Time before history was written
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What is prehistoric time?
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Period of 100 years
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What is a century?
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Event used in the Christian calendar to measure time
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What is the birth of Christ?
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Period of 10 years
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What is a decade?
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Period after the Bronze Age when humans used tools made from iron
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What was the Iron Age?
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What A.D. stands for
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What is Anno Domini?
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agreement between nations
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What is a treaty?
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Humans' belief in God or the supernatural
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What is religion?
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Item of information
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What is a fact?
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Agreement that ends a war
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What is a peace treaty?
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Groups of people who make laws that others must obey
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What is a government?
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Attack in which hostile troops of one nation enter another nation
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What is an invasion?
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Term for a nation with more people than it can support
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What is overpopulation?
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Empire-building by nation
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What is imperialism?
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A human-made object, such as a tool or weapon
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What is an artifact?
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An event or time that marks the beginning of a new development
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What is an epoch?
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Period of time figured from some particular date
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What is an era?
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Period of 20 years
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What is a score?
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Prehistoric period during which humans used tools made from stone
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What was the Stone Age?
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Period of 1,000 years
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What is a millennium?
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Long period of time
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What is an eon?
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Period of approximately 33 years
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What is a generation?
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Conflicts in which two parts of the same nation fight each other
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What are civil wars?
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Facts that point toward what is true and what is false about an event
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What is evidence?
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Careful hunting for facts or truth
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What is research?
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Idea about how something happened
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What is a theory?
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Exact words of someone
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What is a quotation?
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Culture or ways of living of a society
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What is civilization?
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Happenings are connected to one another in some way
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What are related events?
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Family of rulers
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What is a dynasty?
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