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Roush Final History

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The study of earth and way the way people live on it   Geography  
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Products of human skill   Artifacts  
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Landforms   Natural features of the earth's land surface  
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Exact location of a place on the earth's surface   Absolute location  
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Folktales or stories passed down from generation to generation   Legends  
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Average weather condition at a place over a period of years   Climate  
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People who study ruins and artifacts   Archeologists  
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Replaceable natural resources   Renewable Resources  
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Irreplaceable natural resources   Nonrenewable resources  
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Theory that the continents move   Continental Drift  
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Old stone age   Paleolithic  
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New stone age   Neolithic  
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People who study the earth   Geologists  
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People who study human beings   Anthropologists  
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Large hole covered in branches trees and earth used to help people catch large animals   Pitfalls  
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A piece of stone used to make weapons   Flint  
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Big tusked animals that were killed for caot, warmth, and shelter   Mammoths  
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Temple of hill of heaven, or mountain of god   Ziggurat  
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Built a beautiful street to please people   Nebuchadnezzar  
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OLdest know set of laws to exist   Code of Hammurabi  
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Worship or believe in many gods   Polytheism  
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Cradle of civilization, where civilization first began   Mesopotamia  
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Group of states under one ruler   Empire  
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Raised areas of flat or almost flat land   Plateau  
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Sumerian writing made up of wedge-shaped signs   Cuneiform  
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Tamed   Domesticate  
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Time period   Ages  
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Picture that stood for sounds and words   Pictograph  
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People who move in place of food   Nomad  
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Waterfalls or waves around a river   Cataracts  
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First woman pharoah   Hatshepsut  
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Founded the Tomb of King Tut   Howard Carter  
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Roman officials elected to protect the lower classes   Tribute  
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Believed to help the dead archieve afterlife   Book Of Dead  
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Sumerian writing   Scribes  
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Egyptain writing based on pictures   Hieroglyphics  
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Body wrapped in linen to preserve it   Mummy  
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Gave water, food, fertile soil, passway for ships   The Gift Of The Nile  
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Paper made of reed   Papyrus  
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Falcon God, gave pharoahs power to rule   Horus  
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Sun God   Amon - Ra  
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Last Pharoah of Egypt ever   Cleopatra  
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Large Egypatian tombs   Pyramid  
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Egyptian ruler   Pharaoh  
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Meant to repreasent Upper and Lower Egypt   Double Crown  
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A low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a bigger body of water   Delta  
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Youngest egyptian pharoah, king age 9-18   King Tut  
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Greek like   Hellenistic  
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An educated guess   Hypothesis  
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Sad, woeful   Tragedies  
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Funny humorus   Comedies  
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Wrote Illiad & Odyssey   Homer  
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A country where the people rule   Democracy  
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Ruler of all Greek gods   Zeus  
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"Father of History"   Herodotus  
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To exchange goods without using money   Barter  
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Greek goddess of victory   Nike  
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Countries ruled by king or queen   Monarchy  
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Games held every 4 years   Olympics  
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Cities and the surronding territories   City-States  
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Government in which a few people rule   Oligarchy  
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Ancient Greek marketplace   Agora  
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Underground cemeterites   Catacombs  
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Was a Roman general about to be crowned king but was murdered instead   Julius Caesar  
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A political system where land owners had more power   Feudalism  
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Roman god equavilent to Zeus   Jupiter  
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Code in which knights swore to live by   Code of Chivalry  
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Fighters in gladitorial games   Gladiator  
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Political districts   Provinces  
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Government in whichcitizens choose their leaders   Republic  
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Used to carry water to bathhouses   Aqueducts  
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To kill   Assassinate  
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Peace that lasted over 200 years   "Pax Romana"  
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Wore by poorer Romans   Toga  
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