Chapter three key terms in text by HJ Blij/Alexander Murphy
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| Agricultural Revolution | The revolutionary transformation of agricultural practices, systems, and productions.
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| Late Cenozoic Age | The last great ice age that ended 10,000 years ago; spanned the entire Pleistocene epoch.
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| Holocene epoch | The most recent 12,000 years of Earth's history; the warm phase that followed the latest advance of the ice.
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| Glaciers | Sheets of ice
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| Interglaciations | An interglacial period; sustained warming phase between glacial advances during an ice age.
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| Paleolithic Period | The Old Stone Age, the earliest period of human development; the earliest and longest stage of the Stone Age.
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| Stone Age | The period marking when simple stone tools were made and fire was used.
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| Global Warming | an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
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| Domestication (Animal/Plant) | The transformation of a wild animal or wild plant into a domesticated animal or a cultivated crop to gain control over food production.
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| Fertile Crescent | The crescent-shaped zone of productive lands extending from near southeastern Mediterranean coast through Lebanon and Syria to the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia; Where the First Agricultural Revolution occurred.
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| Social Stratification | A set of social data or layers.
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| The Ziggurat | Tower of the great temple; the tallest structure in Mesopotamia at the time from 4100 B.P.
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| Deglaciation | The withdrawal of an ice sheet from an area.
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| Climatic Region | A region experiencing a fairly uniform climate according to specific criteria.
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