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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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