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Key Terms
5 Themes
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What can geography be described as?
The study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them
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What is the Paleolithic age and Neolithic age
The old Stone Age and New Stone Age
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What is the Paleolithic age
Old stone age
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What is prehistory?
Refers to long period of time before people invented systems of writing
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What is location
Location tell where a place is exactly located on the surface on the Earth using latitude and longitude
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How do archaeologists learn how early people developed skills and tool?
By studying and analyzing artifacts and sites
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In the Paleolithic age how was technology developed
Made simple tools out of stone, bone, or wood and leaned how to make fires
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What happens in social classes
People were ranked according to their job they were divided into classes depending how much they make
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What is a nomad?
What people of the old Stone Age were called
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What is place?
Describes physical features such as landforms, bodies of water, or climate and human characteristics like where people live and their economic activities.
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How do historians study how people live?
B examining the writing and interpreting the writing
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What were the dwellings of the Neolithic age
Villages
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What does polytheistic mean?
The belief in many gods
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What is human-environment interactions?
How people have shaped and been shaped by the places they lived in for example roads sliced though deserts and canals linking distant bodies of water
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What are the 5 themes of geography?
Location, place, human environment interactions, movement, and region
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What food did the Neolithic produce
They produced plants, agricultural food, farm animals
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What is a city-state
Rulers, nobles and priest controlled it
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What is cultural diffusion?
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.
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What is movement?
The movement of people, goods, and ideas for example tourists and imported goods or trade
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What is glacier
Caused challenges to the Paleolithic people
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Label the eight features of civilization
Cities, well-organized government, complex religion, job specialization, social classes, art and architecture, public works, writing
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What is animism?
Belief that the world is full of spirits that resided in animals or objects
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What is region?
The world is divided into many types of regions based on physical characteristics, political, economic, or cultural features.