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26 Cards in this Set
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How is climate different from weather?
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Weather~short term
climate~ long term |
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Archeologist
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Past human culture
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Political Scientist
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Government, world politics
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Geographer
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Study of the earth, and location, land
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Economist
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Stuides society
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What is a primary source?
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first hand, account of an event
Ex. Diary entry, Photos |
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What is a secondary source?
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Document or recording that relates or discusses info originally prescented else where
Ex. Encyclopedia, Biography |
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What is an artifact?
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Something left behind by early people
Ex. Dinasour fossils, panitings |
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Civilization
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highly developed culture, usually with organized religon and laws
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How did the discovery of farming lead to the start of civilization?
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Develop government & education, town & cities
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What was the Ice Age?
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Period of extremly cold tempatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets
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How did the first people get to America? What sis they cross?
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Land Bridge from Siberia to Alaska
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What were the first Americans following?
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The nomads followed game & hards of animals
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What is a nomad?
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Early American people who maded from place to place
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What happened to the land bridge? Is it there today?
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The sea level rose covering the land bridge, and now it lies under the bering strait and is beneath surface today
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What is Maize?
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An early form of corn
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What is Culture?
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A way of life of a particular group of people
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Maya
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Built monuments and pyrimids,hierographics
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Aztecs
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Emerged Tenochtitlan, worriors conquered people
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Incas
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Built stone paved roads, cut terrances crafted magnificent jewlery
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Why were theAztec, Inca, and Maya considered advanced civilizations?
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They built structures and their religous belifs
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Why did different Native American groups of North America have diffrent cultures?Give 3 examples
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They had diffrent ways of life, religon and struchures they lived in different areas
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What was the league of the Iroquois?
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An organazation made up of the onondaga, seneca, monawk, the onedia and the cayuga
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What did Marco Polo write about in his book Travels that encouraged Europens to explore?
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Marvels of Asia, descriding exotic lands and people, great riches and splendid cities silk, spices
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What thing did Europeans want from Asia?
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Spices, Silk, and perfume oil
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What was the Renaissance?
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Period of intellectual & artistic creativity "Rebirth"
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