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10 Cards in this Set
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Peninsula |
A peninsula is a chunk of land surrounded by 3 bodies of water on each side. |
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Mediterranean Sea |
The Mediterranean Sea is the largest body of water to the south of Europe, most people live on the coast because of good farmland. |
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Loess |
Loess is rich soil that was left behind by glaciers. |
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Taiga |
Taiga is thick forest of coniferous trees. |
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Minoans |
Minoans lived in the islands, were skilled sailors, who developed writing and trade. |
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Mycenaeans |
Mycenaeans were the opposite of Minoans, they lived on mainlands, and took over Minoans, adopted they systems , but collapsed for unknown reasons. |
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City-States |
City-State is basically a city that controls surrounding villages and farmland. |
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Cultural hearth |
Cultural Hearth is basically an area or center where new ideas form and spread through other parts of the world. |
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Aristarchus |
The man discovered that the Earth goes around the sun when everyone else thought it was the opposite. |
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Herodontus |
He was a Greek historian and the father of history. |
