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Cognitive or academic vocabulary |
Vocabulary needed to understand the concepts of school. |
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the Apache and Comanche domesticated the horse |
Caused them to become skillful hunters and warriors |
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Iraq |
Located in the region known as Mesopotamia |
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Iraq is a Muslim nation |
Largest group: Arabs (Shiite and Sunni Muslims) Kurds: largest minority group. |
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A globe is a scale model of the Earth because it's the same shape as the earth more accurate |
Mercator projection map is a flat representation of the Earth |
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Compass rose |
Shows orientation of a map on earth that shows (n e s w) and in between directions (se nw) |
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When the banking industry is strong |
there is an adequate supply of currency, fiscal, stability, and economic growth are more likely to occur |
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Southern Colonies |
Based on crops of tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton |
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Plantations produced agricultural crops in large scale |
Exploited workers as well as the environment. |
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The Virginia house of burgesses was the first legislature established in the English colonies |
Established in 1619 and became the first form of government in the colony |
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The U.S. Constitution set up a system |
Each branch of the government has the power to control or regulate the power of the other two |
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Metric system |
Very precise system that allows for the measurement of very s amounts of matter |
