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What is Geography?
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the study of poeople, their environments, and their resources available to them
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Latitude
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measure distance from north to south
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What are the 5 themes of geography?
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1. Location
2. Place 3. Human-environment 4. Movement 5. Region |
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What is prehistory?
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period of time before people invented the system of writing
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What is anthropology?
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origin and development of people and their societies
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What is culture?
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way of life of a society
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What is archaeology?
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specialized branch of anthropology which studies the past people and thier cultures
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What is an artifact?
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object made by himan beings
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What is technology?
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skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs
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What are historians?
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people who study how people lived in the past
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What is another term for the Old stone age and what years was it in?
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the Paleolithic age dates from 2 million B.C. the time of the first stone toolmakers, to about 10,000 B.C.
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What are nomads?
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paleolithic people who moved from place to place as they followed game animals and ripening fruits
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What are glaciers?
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sheets of ice
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What is animism?
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About 30,000 years ago, people first started to believe in a spiritual world, and this world was full of spitit that might reside in animals, objects or dream
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Who, when, where, and how did people start farming?
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1. No one know when and how
2. People believe it started it Middle East, others believe its started individually 3. Women probably figured out the farming process |
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What is the "farming" revolution called?
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Neolithic agricultural revolution
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What is domesticate?
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to tame
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what is a civilization?
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a complex, highly organized social order
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what is surplus?
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extra food
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what is polytheistic?
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believe in many gods
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what are artisans?
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skilled craftworkers
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What is a pictogram?
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simple drawing that looked like the object represented
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what it a city state?
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a political unit that inculdes the city and its surrounding lands and villages
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what are steppes?
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sparse, dry grassland
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what is cultural diffusion?
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spread of ideas
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What is longitute?
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mearuse distance east to west...Prime Meridian through Greenwich, England
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what is silt?
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soil
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