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23 Cards in this Set
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gathering
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women
80% sucess rate |
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!Kung
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one of the last hunting and gathering societies...in Botswanna and South Africa
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Equaltarian society
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everyone is equal
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Bands
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10-20 people
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prines
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100's of people
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cheeftom
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1,000's
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states
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10,000's
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what happened 11,000 years ago
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some groups decided to domesticate plants and animals
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Consequences of Agricultural society in the neolithic age
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-predictable food source(food surplus)
-society will bbecome "stratified" -storage technology(pottery) -calenders,people writting -population increases -war, slaves |
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Fast economics
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warfare
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Who drew up a secre agreement to split up the middle east in 1916?
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sir mark sykes and georges picot
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T.E. Lawrence nickname
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Lawerence of Arabia
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King Feisal of Iraq
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-became king in august of 1921
-he was sunni and not iraqi -ruled iraqu from 1935-55 -whole family assasinated by Abdul-Qarim Qassam |
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Abdul-Qarim Qassam
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-angered US and Brittish "fliting with USSR"
-Saddam Hussein tried to kill him in 1958 -1963 baath party brought him down -murdered on tv |
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Saddam Hussien
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-second in comand from 1968-1979
-former alli of the US -captured by US on DEC. 13 2003 -executed DEC. 30 2006 |
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clay tablet
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2039 B.C.
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Zigurrat
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center tallest point og city
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Summerians
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-humans were created to provide labor for the gods
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Eli Whitney
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-went to yale, graduated in 1793, grew up in the north, moved to GA
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1793
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-cotton most popular crop, not very efficant
-slaves picked cotton in the south, 8 hrs for 1 lb |
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Cotton gin
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more efficient
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1800 vs 1860
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1800- 5 million worth of cotton (7% us exports)
1860- 191 million worth of cotton (51% us exports) |
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John Brown
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the abolitionist
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