Pre-History

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Absolute Location

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Provides a definite reference to locate a place.

Ex. An address

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Relative Location

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Describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection.

Ex. In Greece somewhere

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Region

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An area that is united by or shows more than one characteristics.

Ex. The Continents

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Formal

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Designated by official boundaries, population, climate, or other facts.

Ex. Cities, States, Counties, and Countries

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Functional

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Defined by their connections or Government.

Ex. School Districts

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Perceived/Vernaculer

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Based on opinions or perceptions of an area.

Ex. Stereotypes

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Place

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Describes the human and physical characteristics.

Ex. Mountains and Rivers

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Human Characteristics

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Human-designed features from land.

Ex. Hobbit Hole

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Physical Characteristics

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Mountains, rivers, beaches, animals, plant life, etc.

Ex. Rocky Mountains

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Pre-history

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Time period before written history.

Ex. Caveman

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Archaeologists

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Studies remains of ancient societies.

Ex. Fossils

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Anthropologist

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Studies all aspects of man kind whether ancient or modern.

Ex. Modern Scientist

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Artifacts

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Anything influenced/made by humans.

Ex. Stone Tools

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Carbon 14 Dating

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Most precise form of dating.

Ex. Skulls

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Geography

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The study of earth and its features.

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Location

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Tells us where in the world a certain area is.

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Human/Environment interaction

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Humans who have changed and have been changed by the environment.

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movement

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The transfer of people, goods, and ideas form one place to another.

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B.C.

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"Before Christ" refers to the years before the birth of Jesus Christ.

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A.D.

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"Anno Domini" refers to so many years after the birth of Christ.

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B.C.E/C.E

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"Before the common era" and "common era" these terms correspond to B.C. and A.C. respectively.

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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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Millenium

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1,000 years.

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Agelera

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Broad time period characterized by a shared pattern of life.

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Equator

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The line of latitude midway between North and South Poles.

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Latitude

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Imaginary lines that circle the globe from East to West, measuring an area'd distance North and South of the equator.

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Longitude

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Imaginary lines that circle the globe from North to South measuring and area's distance East or West of the Prime Meridian.

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Prime Meridan

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The line of longitude at 0' That run through Greenwich England.

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Hemisphere

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Half of the globe (Northern & Southern or Eastern & Western).

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Continent

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A very large land mass on Earth (Asia, Africa, North and South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia).

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Country

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A region that is identified as a distinct entity (196 countries).

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Lucy

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The most complete and oldest preserved skeleton of any erect walking man.

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5 stages of man

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Australopithecus- 1/3 brain size of modern humans.

Homo Habilis- Closest known ancestor.

Homo Erectus- Controlled fire and used it to their advantage.

Homo Sapiens- Very smart and skillful hunter.

Modern Homo Sapiens- Started an agricultural revolution.

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Multi regional theory

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the different regions progressed into the modern known as homo sapiens sapiens.

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Out of Africa theory

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The modern human materialized out of Africa and began replacing netherlands

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Agricultural Revolution

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Warmer world, drier environments, population growth, domestication of animal and plant life.