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17 Cards in this Set
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How do historians know about times prior to written history?
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1. oral histories
2. archaeological evidence to make theories |
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How are 1st hand accounts important?
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It is important to understand "why" history happened the way it did.
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What was the World Trade Center a symbol of?
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American capitalism
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What is the Pentagon a symbol of?
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American military strength
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Explain the details of the third unsuccessful flight involved in 9/11.
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1. Flight 93
2. Headed for the White House 3. Crashed in Shanksville, PA due to bravery of passengers. |
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How many foreign terrorist organizations are there?
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48
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How did the Great Ice Age transform America?
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1. depressed Canadian Shield
2. created Great Lakes 3. created Great Salt Lake |
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Where were the Incas from?
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Peru
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Where were the Mayans from?
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Central America
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Where were the Aztecs from?
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Mexico
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What was considered the staff of life and the foundation of the complex, large-scale, centralized Aztec and Incan nation-states?
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maize
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How did corn change the Native American way of life?
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nomadic hunting bands became settled agricultural villagers
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When did corn planting reach the present-day American southwest?
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1200 BC
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What did the Pueblo people in the Rio Grande valley do that was so ahead of their time?
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constructed intricate irrigation systems to water their cornfields
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How did Columbus's discovery eventually convulse Europe, Africa, and the 2 Americas?
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interdependent global economic system
1. Europe: markets, capital, & technology 2. Africa: labor 3. New World: raw materials (esp. precious metals & soil for cultivation of sugar cane) |
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Explain the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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1. Spain divided New World with Portugal
2. most of land went to Spain 3. Portugal received other land in Africa & Asia and title to lands in Brazil |
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How did the New World help to spur economic revolution in Europe?
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1. precious metals made Europe richer
2. increased consumer costs by as much as 500 percent |
