Unit 1 Study Guide

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Country vs Continent

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Country-A region that is identified as a distinct entity.

Continent-A very large land mass on earth.

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Latitude vs Longitude

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Latitude-Imaginary that circle the globe from East to West, measuring an area's distance North and South of the Equator.

Longitude-Imaginary lines that circle the globe from North to South measuring an area's distance East or West of the Prime Meridian.

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Prime Meridian vs Equator

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Prime Meridian-The line of longitude at 0 degrees that runs through Greenwich England.

Equator-The line of latitude midway between the North and South poles.

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Continents and Oceans

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Oceans-Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, India Ocean, Arctic Ocean.

Continents-Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America

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Prehistory

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Time Period before written history.

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Australopithecines

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They were around 4 billion years ago and look like a monkey/human combination.

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Cro-Magnon

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The word to describe the first early modern human.

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Agricultural Revolution

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The time when humans went from being hunter/gatherers to farming for food.

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Anthropologist

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Studies all aspects of man kind whether ancient or modern.

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Archaeologist

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Studies remains of ancient societies.

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Artifact

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Anything influenced/made by humans.

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Carbon 14 Dating

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Most precise form of dating.

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Homo-Habilis

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Closest known ancestor to modern humans.

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Homo-Erectus

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Controlled fire and used it to their advantage.

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Technology

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Anything humans have created to solve a problem or complete a process; tools that extend capacities for the purpose of survival and comfort, in economics, it is the pool of existing knowledge.

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Neanderthals

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Neanderthals are one of the earliest forms of humans who were hunter/gatherers instead of farmers.

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Multi-Regional vs Out of Africa

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Multi-Regional-It is where homo-erectus left Africa and moved to different parts of the world and develop into modern humans.

Out of Africa-That is where all humans came out of Africa and created what a lot of countries use for farming.

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Domesticate

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Where people have animals or plants and they breed or plant them with certain genes to help human survival.

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Fertile Crescent

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A crescent-shaped area offertile land in the Middle East extending from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf.

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Theocracy

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A system of government where the priest rule in the name of god or a god

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Bronze

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A metal that is a used to make tools and also used as money

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Hammurabi & Code of Law

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Hammurabi was the sixth Amorite king of Babylon and his code was pretty much an eye for an eye

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Second Illness

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Indus River Valley