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It is believed that the first humans in the Americas migrated from this region.
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northern Asia
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This was the name of the land bridge that hunters crossed which is now covered by the Berihg Sea.
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Beringia
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This condition is the freezing of much of the earth's water in vast ice sheets.
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Glaciers
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The main Mayan occupation in Mesoamerica.
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Farming
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A word picture, or symbol,that stands for both words and sounds. Archaeologists have discovered over 800 of these in the Mayan writing.
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Glyph
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The worship of this object was common to many Moesoamierican cultures, in cluding the Mayan, the Omec and Aztec.
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Jaguar
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This city was the capital of Inca.
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Cuzco
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With 30,000 inhabitants, this ancient city in present-day Illinois was the largest community in North America.
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Cahokia
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A steep hill with a flat, tablelike top.
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Mesa
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The Anasazi culture and people from the southwest learned from this culture how to cultivate beans and corn.
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Mesoamericans
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A flat-roofed adobe house that often shared adjoining walls and was built on many levels in a step pattern.
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pueblo
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When the grasses and plants of the Sahara gradually died, animals and humans moved on to this regioin south of the Sahara, which includes mountains, grasslands, lakes, rivers, and forests.
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Sub-Saharan
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Dry, grassy areas which cover hearly half of Africa.
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savannas
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A plant or animal that is in danger of completely dying out.
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extinct
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Family ties were important in African villages where people with common ancestors lived together.
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kinships
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Identifying oneself by tracing your ancestry through your father's heritage
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partilineage
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Tracing you kinship through your mother's ancestry.
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matrilineage
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When one group has complete control over a business activity.
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monopoly
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The main good or item brought all the way across the Sahara and through Ghana for trading.
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salt
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To help desert travelers deal with the dangers and risks of their journeys, they traveled in these huge groups.
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caravans
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The Iliad and Odyssey were poems written by this Greek poet.
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Homer
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This describes a long adventure poem.
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epic
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Like Greece, land surrounded on three sides by water.
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peninsula
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Voyaging and trading abroad, the Greeks founded foreign settlements in distant lands ruled originally from home.
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colonies
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This word meant marketplace in Greece.
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Agora
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A greek city-state that is governed by groups of powerful landowners.
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polis
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A form of government by nobility.
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aristocracy
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A ruler who governs by threat of force.
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tyrant
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Stories told by the Greeks from the distant past about the beginning of the world, the birht of gods and goddesses, which helped explain the natural world.
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myths
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The Greeks believed this mythological god was the all-powerful god of the sky and father of all people.
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Zeus
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These were prophesies deliverd in some shrines by priests or priestesses.
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oracles
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This Greek word for the "love of wisdom" is used to describe the exploration of questions about human behavior and morals.
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philosophy
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Military equipment, including portable towers and ramming devices, used by an army to attack cities.
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siege train
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At this site in India, Alexander's weary troops had fought enough and refused to continue.
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Ihelum River
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The ideas of Greek philsophers, scientist, poets, and playwrights which influenced people's thinkg from Egypt to India and changed their cultures.
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Hellenistic
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