History Vocab 1
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| Physical Maps | primary purpose is to show land-forms like deserts, mountains and plains.
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| Political Maps | designed to show governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties, the location of major cities
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| Special-Purpose Maps | used to help you focus on certain details.
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| Latitude | the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
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| Longitude | the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
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| Title | Usually draws attention by virtue of its dominant size; serves to focus attention on the primary content of the map.
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| Key | It gives you the information needed for the map to make sense.
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| Compass rose | a circle divided into 32 points or 360° numbered clockwise from true or magnetic north
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| Scale Bar | means of visually showing the scale of a map, nautical chart, engineering drawing, or architectural drawing.
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| Prehistory | the period of time before written records.
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| Historian | an expert in or student of history, especially that of a particular period, geographical region, or social phenomenon.
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| Artifact | an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
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| Anthropology | the study of human societies and cultures and their development.
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| Equal Area Projection | equal-area map projection showing parallels and the equator as straight lines
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| Mercator Projection | a projection of a map of the world onto a cylinder in such a way that all the parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator, used especially for marine charts and certain climatological maps.
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| Robinson Projection | is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at once.
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| Culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
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| Archaeology | the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
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| Mary Leakey | A family of anthropologists whose work at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and elsewhere revealed that humans probably first evolved in Africa.
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| Louis Leakey | Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa
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| Olduvai Gorge | one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world; it has proven invaluable in furthering our understanding of early human evolution.
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| Technology | the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.
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| Donald Johnson | is an American paleoanthropologist.
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| Technique | a way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure.
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