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Peninsula |
a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water. |
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Mediterranean Sea |
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. |
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Loess |
a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur. |
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Taiga |
the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America. |
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Minoans |
The Minoans were the first Europeans to have literate civilization. The Minoans have an important place in world history, as building the first civilization to appear on European soil.Minoan civilization emerged around 2000 BC, and lasted until 1400 BC. |
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Mycenaeans |
The Mycenaeans are the first Greeks, in other words, they were the first people to speak the Greek language. The Mycenaean civilization thrived between 1650 and 1200 BC. The Mycenaeans were influenced by the earlier Minoan civilization, located on the island of Crete. |
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City-States |
a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. |
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cultural hearth |
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 |
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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Herodontus |
was a writer who invented the field of study known today as `history' |
