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35 Cards in this Set
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What is a law?
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rule made by the gov.t to keep people saafe, laws must be enforced
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What is the Stone Age?
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When none of the groups didn't have progress developing machines they only had muscle power. Their tools were made from wood, stone or bone. They had a few copper objects and some gold & silver jewelry.
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Why not to have a leader:
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to much power, might not make good decisions, too much freedom, might be greedy
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What is a society?
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a group of people who live in a specific geographic area & who have a common culture.
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The Eastern Woodlands
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Gov.t- strong, shose democratically, women participated
Economy-hunted(men) farmed(women) wood houses soc. characteristics- made the 5 nations, large population they were aggressive with outsiders |
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Their hunting ground was...
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where the group lived
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The Great Basin
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They gathered seeds and hunted small animals. They fought whenever nessicary. 2 groups that lived here were the Modoc, Ute. The gov.t was simple and influenced by nature. They lived in small groups too.
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What is an environment?
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the groups nature.
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Southeasts economy
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they traded from the GOMand Rocky Mtns. They grew cluded pumpkins, squash, beans, peas, cabbage, melons& mushrooms. They bulit from wood, thatch, bark, reeds & canes.
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What is a culture?
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values and behavior patterns held in common: language, government, family relationships, how they make a living, how they educate their children, & the objects they create.
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The Sotheast gov.t
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There were 2 cheifs, red and the white. RED- gave advice on warpartys stuff like that and WHITE- handled concerns of the towns.
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The Southwest housing
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Built with adobe which is sun-baked brick plastered with mud. Their houses looked like modern apartment houses. The houses were built up against cliffs, to make construction easier and for defense against enemies.
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What are the kinds of leadership?
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democracy, dictatorship & monarchy
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What is a clan?
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When a man became a member of his wife's social group.
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What did the Far North hunt? What did they live in?
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seals, walruses, great whales. In the summer they hunted salmon. Lived in igloos.
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What was life mostly governed by?
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Tradition and custom
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Why to have a leader:
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make final decisions, organize things, prob. solver, stop fights, keep order
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What are generalizations?
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Broad statements that link loosely associated facts.
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What is the economy in the Northwest?
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they fished, the forests of redwood, pine & cedar supplied them with lumber to build things with.
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The Southwest food/tools gov.t, social characteristics and how they dealed with outsiders.
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The people of the pueblos were peaceful and gentle. The grew corn, beans & squash.
They made excellent pottery and wove baskets. They could hold water. The gov. t- They were chosen in a democratic manner.It is more complex. Soc. Characteristics- lived in large families up to 1,000. |
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What are soc. characteristics?
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describe the group of people who make up the society & describe the groups within the society.
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what are mound builders?
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people who buried their dead in elaborate eathern mounds.
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The Southeasts social characteristics
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mound builders, had worship, dancing feasting & merrymaking.
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what is a confederation?
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a loose association of tribes
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What is an economy?
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how people meet their needs and wants in a society.
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what are the crusades?
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religious wars
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The Great Plains
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simple gov.t, hunted buffalo, used everything from it, nomadic, the buffalo were worshipped, they were more aggressive.
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what are belivers in Islam called?
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Moslems
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when was the compass invented?
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1100
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what is the astrolabe and when was it invented?
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an instrument that measuerd a ships latitude. It was invented in 1400.
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what is adobe?
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sun baked brick dried with mud.
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what is the commercial revoulution?
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when they wanted more asian goods
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what happened in 1095
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Pope Urban 2 summoned Catholics to take up the cross
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what are some great changes the crusades had?
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pepper, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, rice and oranges. bought silk cotten. Jewels and rugs.
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what happened in 1099?
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the crusaders captured Jerusalem and founded the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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