Unit One

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Geography

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Study of earth and it's features.

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Location

Back 2

Where a place in the world is, measured in Latitude and Longitude.

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Human/Environment Interaction

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Humans changed and being changed by their environment.

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Movement

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Transfer of people, goods, and ideas to different places.

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Region

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Any area w/ common characteristics such as climate and land forms.

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Place

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What an area looks like in physical and human terms.

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B.C

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Before Christ.

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A.D

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After birth of Jesus.

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B/CE

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Before/Common Era.

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Decade

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10 years.

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Century

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100 years.

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Age/Era

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Time period of shared pattern of life.

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Millennium

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1,000 years

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Equator

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Line of Lat. midway between North and South Pole. Measures 0 degrees.

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Latitude

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Imaginary lines running North to South.

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Longitute

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Imaginary lines running East to West.

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Hemisphere

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Half globe. North, South, East, and West.

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Prime Meridian

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Line of Long. that measures 0 degrees.

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Continent

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Land masses of similar characteristics, NA, SA, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, and Africa.

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Country

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Land/domains. 196 different countries are named.

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Absolute Location

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Definite reference to location a place.

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Relative Location

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Respect to environment and connection to other places.

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Region; Formal, Function, Perceived

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Area untied by or shares one or more characteristics.

Designated by official boundaries-population.

Connections or government-school district.

Based on opinion/perceptions-Stereotypical.

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Place

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Describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.

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Prehistory

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Time period before written history.

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Archaelogists

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Study remains of ancient societies-dinosaurs and etc.

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Anthropologists

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Study all aspects of mankind whether ancient or modern-physical, cultural, etc.

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Artifacts

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Anything influenced or made by humans/man.

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Carbon 14 Dating

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Measures amount of carbon left in a once living/object.

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Dynasty

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Secession of heredity rulers.

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City-state

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Independent city that operates much like an independent country.

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Polytheism

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The belief in more than one or several deities/gods.

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Empire

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Political unit in which a number of people/countries are ruled by one person.

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Republic

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Political system with elected representatives.

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Senate

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Lawmaking, governing body.

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Dictator

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A single ruler who has all and complete authority. (Sorry!)

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Monarchy

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Form of gov, where one person has heredity rights to rule as head; Kings and Queens

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Theocracy

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Ruler is a divine leader or a controlled religious leader/group; no separation of church and state.

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Reincarnation

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Soul/spirit is born again and again.

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Mandate of Heaven

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In Ancient China you were given power to rule and etc from a divine source of power; Gods gave power to who they deemed 'worthy'.

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Feudalism

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Political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on holding lands in fief/fee on the resulting relationships between Lord and Vassal, Knight/Samurai.

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Bureaucracy

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Civil agencies that run the Government.

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Monothesim

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Belief in a single god.

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Convenant

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An agreement - can be referred back to biblical times of God and the Israelite or today as a legally binding agreement.