7th grade, The First Americans
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What goes first longitude or latitude? | latitude
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What are the 5 themes of geography? | location, Place, Regions, Human environment interactions, movement
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absolute location? | uses coordinates of latitude and longitude
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Relative location? | describes a place in relation to another place
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0* latitude? | equator
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90*north latitude? | north pole
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90* south latitude | south pole
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parallels are... | latitude lines
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meridians are... | longitude lines
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0* longitude | prime merdian
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What is the international dateline? | a non straight although it mostly runs along 180*, it attempts to avoid land because it less confusing
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place? | the characteristics (physical/cultural) that make every location on earth unique
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regions? | areas that share something in common (physical/cultural)
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human environment interactions? | how people change environment change to help them survive and thrive
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movement? | when people move they also move their ideas and culture
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carbon dating | scientists measure the amount of radioactive carbon in an artifact that twas once alive
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nomads | person that moves from place to place
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theocracy | society governed by religious leaders
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archaeology | the study of ancient peoples
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clan | the Iroquois people people were organized into groups of related families
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Quecha | official language of the Inca empire
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artifact | tool, weapon, basket, or carving of early peoples
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pueblo | structure of stone and sun dried built by the Anasazi people
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hieroglyphics | symbols or pictures that represent things, ideas,and sounds
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migration | movement of a large number of people into a new land
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civilizations | high developed societys
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quipu | various lengths and colors of string used by the Incas to record info
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maize | an early form of corn
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federation | government that links different groups
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terrace | broad platforms
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culture | a person's or group's way of life
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the 10 things needed to make a civilization | communication,food, water, regligion, rules/laws,leadership, specialization, protection, Freetime
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mayan communication? | had a spoken language, had hieroglyphics, kept records called codices,
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mayan temples | each level went through Mayan history
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mayan food? | legends say they came from corn, had farming skills,, could feed 20,000+ chewed chicle (first gum)
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mayan water? | problem for mayans, might have caused a drought
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mayan religions? | had 1 god (itzamna), they burid dead under homes, servents killed with their leaders, if your child died the mother would cut off her fingertip
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who are the bird people and why? | the mayoans. their gods were imangined as birds so they wanted to be like them
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examples of what they did to be bird people | babies= crass eyed, they tattoed body bird colors, tried to make nose beak-like, sharpened teeth
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mayan leadership? | no government, leaders were kings who gained power in war
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mayan rules/ laws? | were strict (cut hair short, servent of victim, thrown off a cliff)
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mayan specilization? | had many jobs
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mayan protection? | designed cities for protection, kings had army of warriors
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mayan friendships/ aliances? | no prmenant alliances
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which civilization had a lot of gold? | the inca
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inca communication | spoke quecha, had no written language-used special knotted ropes (quipus) to send a message, runners called Chaskis could deliver a message 1,500 miles in a week
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inca food | buiilt terraces to farm tha mountain terran, meat was alpaca and guinea pig, ate potatoes
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inca water | built aquaducts so melting snow would flow into settlements
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inca religion | sunworshipers, leader was the inca (who was a god)last inca was Atahualpa, inca married siblings, had human and animal sacrifices
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inca leadership | inca choose woman to be his advisors, allowed conqured people to keep their leaders/culture if they followed inca culture
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inca rules /laws | almost no crime in inca empire, laws were harsh
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inca specilization | had many differnt jobs
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inca protection | had both nature protection (lived in Andes Mts.)and a strong army
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inca alliances | encouraged groups to became alliances, those who refused either attacked or forced to join
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inca freetime | had accomplishments (Maccu piccu, Brain surgery, stone arches)incas loved music-panpipe, all accomplished with no written language!
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called themselves "the Mexica" | aztecs
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aztec communication | spoke/wrote language called Nahuati
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Where they found an eagle eating a snake on a cactus, which meant they would build a great city there | the aztecs, in tenochtitlan-they built 3 causeways from island to land
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aztec food | similiar to mayans, bought food at city market,rich drank chocolate- which cocoa beans were used as money!
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aztec water | used aqueducts (carried 3+ miles)had running water in homes of wealthy- aztecs were very clean, drank wine (tequila) but if you got drunk you would be killed
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aztes gods/goddesses | Huitzilopochtli-god of war, Quetzalcoatl-the creator god
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aztec calanders | solar- 365 days, had 5 days of darkness, bad luck days(18 months of 20 days)
Religious-240 days
every 52 years they started on the same day-if they hadnt sacrificed enough people the world would end(in fire with super charged jaguars
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