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26 Cards in this Set
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The location of a point on the Earth's surface - latitude longitude
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Absolute Location
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Before the Common Era
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B.C.E
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Common Era
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C.E
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The 4 main pionts on a compass rose (North, East, South, West)
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Cardnial Directions
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A material object of a culture such as a tool, an artical of clothing, or a prepared food, or a building.
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Artifact
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An element of a map used to show direction, usually showing cardinal directions and frequently intermeidiate directions
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Compass Rose
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One set of numbers that determines the location of a piont in a space.
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Coordinate
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The complex set of meanings, attitudes, values and ideas belonging to a culture group.
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Culture Prespective
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A pattern of behaivior accepted by a society
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Culture Practice
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Learned behavior of a group of people, which includes their belief systems and languages,their insitutions and organizations,and their material goods such as food, clothng, buildings, tools, and machines.
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Culture
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A system of government in which political control is exercized by all the people, eather directly or through elected representitives.
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Democracy
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A system of government which those who rule usually acquire and maintain authority by force and cannot be held responsible for the will of the people
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Dictatorship
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The spread of people, ideas, technology, and products among places.
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Diffusion
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A democratic system of government in which the people execise political control and participate directly in decision makeing
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Direct Democracy
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A court order demanding that the individual in custody be brought into court and shown the cause of detention. Hebeas corpus is guaranteed by the U.S Constitution and can be suspended only in the cases of rebeillion or invasion.
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Habeas Corpus (Writ Of)
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The points of the compass that fall between north, east, south, and west.
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Intermediate Directions
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The position of a point on the Earth`s surface expressed by means of a grid (absolute) or in relation to a postion of other places (relative)
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Location
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A system of government headed by a monarch as the only source of power (kings,queens)
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Monarchy
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A timeline that utilizes two or more rows of events, with each row representing a different subject of prespective occurring during the period under study
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Multiple-tier Timeline
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A specific point of veiw in understanding or judging things or events.
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Perspective
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A natural aspect or quality of the Earth's surface that includes land formations and vegitation zone
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Physical Characteristic or Feature
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A portrayal on a flat surface of the physical features of the Earth (e.g. landforms, elevations)
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Physical Map
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An account of an event by someone who was present at the event
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Primary Source
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A democratic system of government in which the people exercise the political control and participate through elected representives responsible for premoting the common welfare
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Representitive Democracy (republic)
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An account of an event by someone who was not present at the event
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Secondary source
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A portrayal on a flat surface of geographic topic ( e.g. migration routes, resource locations, population densities)
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Thematic Map
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