Geography
Chapter one: First peoples and society
Chapter two: Early River valley Civilization
Chapter three: Ancient South Asia and China
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What does a Topographic map do?

Shows the elevation of land and shape of the Earth's surface.

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What are artifacts? How do they help us learn about how lived in the past?

Artifact are things left behind. They help us learn how life was back then.
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What was the reason that civilizations first developed in southwest Asia?

The fertile land

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What us cultural diffusion?

The spread of beliefs and religions

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What does a political map do?

Shows boundaries between countries, states, regions and major cities.

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Where did the earliest humans first migrate too?

Africa and Asia

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How do we know that Sumerian had conflicts?

The fortified cities, weapons

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How did Ashoka became a chakravartin? 

Military conquest and conversion to Buddhism 

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What does a historical map do?

Shows past events or places 
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What are some scientist tools historians use?

LIDAR, Radar, Core scanning, and Mitochondrial DNA

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How did the Egyptians adapt to their environment? 

By using the nile river for survival

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How would monsoons affect cultural diffusion?

Facilitated trade and migration

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Is Geography just maps yes or no?

No

400

Who Is the Mitochondrial Eve, and why is she important?

The first human to have Daughters, it is told that all DNA came from her.

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When did Egypt reach its peak of power (What pharaoh)?

Ramses the second

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What is Nirvana? (Not the band)

Liberation from suffering 

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What is Space.

The features and relations given in an area

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What is a Paleoanthropologist?

Someone who studies human evolution.

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What is Polytheism?

Belief in many Gods

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What is karma? How is today's meaning different from the original meaning?

The original meaning is the cause and effect in one's lifetimes. The new meaning is the immediate and secular understanding of one's consequences.