Notecards #14

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Peninsula

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a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.

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Mediterranean Sea

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is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land

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Loess

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an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometer size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate.

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Taiga

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is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines

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Minoans

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he first Europeans to have literate civilization.

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Mycenaeans

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are the first Greeks, they were the first people to speak the Greek language.

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City-States

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is a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories.

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cultural hearth

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is an area where new ideas and innovations spring up and spread to other parts of the world.

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Aristarchus

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an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician

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Herodontus

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a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus