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30 Cards in this Set
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Globalization
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A process by which the shrinking world makes everyone more interconnected
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Interdependence
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The mutual dependence of people or nations on each other
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Technology
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People using knowledge, tools, and systems to make their lives easier and better
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History
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An interpretation (as said by Edwin Fenton)
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Edwin Fenton
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The historian who said that history is an interpretation
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Map projection
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A particular way of drawing a flat picture of the earth's curved surface
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Geography
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The study of the earth, its features and how humans interact with those features
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Ethnocentrism
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A belief in one's own cultural superiority
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Perspective
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A point of view
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Culture
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A way of life
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Cultural bias
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A form of prejudice based on one's own culture
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Artifact
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A human-made object
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Hominid
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Humans that walk upright
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Homo sapiens
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The species name for modern humans
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Homo erectus
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A less smart species than the homo sapiens
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Peleolithic age
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The Old Stone Age
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Neolithic age
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The new stone age
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Neanderthal
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A group of early humans with smaller brains that humans today
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Cro-magnon
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An early group of Homo sapiens or modern man
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Paleontologist
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A geologist who specializes in the study of fossils
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Anthropologist
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A perosn who studies the physical and cultural development of man
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Mary Leakey
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An anthropologist who made many important fossil discoveries in The Great Rift Valley in Africa
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Donald Johansen
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An important American anthropologist who, while working in Ethiopia, found the first almost complete skeleton of an early hominid he nicknamed Lucy
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The Great Rift Valley
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A valley in central East Africa that has been made famous by the large numer of fossils of early man found there
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Lucy
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The earliest known almost complete skeleton of a hominid found in Ethiopia by Donald Johansen
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Laetoli footprints
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Found by archaeologist Mary Leakey on a Tanzanian plain these are the oldest evidence of hominids that walked upright
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Archaeologist
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An anthropologist who uses excavation as a method to find evidence of early humans.
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Sister Wendy
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A former nun who has written extensively on art history
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Lascaux
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Caves in southern France containing paintings though to have been done by early Cro-magnon men
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Chronological order
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Arranged in order of time of occurence
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