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Peninsula
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a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
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Mediterranean Sea
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Connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land .
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Loess
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A loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment.
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Taiga
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A Taiga is also known as a snow forest.
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Minoans
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The Minoans were the first Europeans to have literate civilization.
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Mycenaean
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A Bronze Age civilization in Greece represented by finds at Mycenae and other ancient cities of Peloponnese.
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City-States
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A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
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cultural hearth
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A cultural hearth is any place where certain related changes in land-use appeared due to human domestication of plants and animals.
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Aristarchus
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Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it.
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Herodotus
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Herodotus was a Greek historian.
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