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What is a Cognate Word ?
Words that have a similar spelling, meaning and pronunciation between two different languages.
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What is a timeline ?
A linear representation of historical events displayed in chronological order.
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What is a Secondary Source ?
The Greek historian Arrian, who wrote a history of Alexander the Great about 300 years after Alexander's death.
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What is a "Hunter-Gatherer."
A human who hunts animals and collects wild fruits and vegetables to survive.
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What is writing ?
History begins when people learned how to do this.
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What is a globe ?
They are harder to use than a map, because everything on it is very small.
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What is a historical chart ?
A way of organizing historical information in a way that makes it easy to understand information and compare historical data.
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What is a Primary Source ?
The diary of Abraham Lincoln.
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What is The Stone Age.
The name of the age is based on the fact that most human tools were made of stone.
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What is Bronze ?
This compound metal is produced by the fusion of tin and copper.
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What are physical maps and political maps ?
The two kinds of maps we have discussed in class.
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What is a historical graph ?
A diagram that shows the relationship between two historical variables, measured along one of a pair of axes at right angles.
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What is a Secondary Source?
An ancient copy of the Lotus Sutra, which records the words of the Buddha but was written about 200 years after his death.
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What is The Ice Age.
The name of the age is based on the fact that most of the world was frozen over at that time.
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Who are the Sumerians ?
These people are credited with inventing both writing and the wheel.
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What is a political map ?
On these maps, colors are used to distinguish national boundaries.
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What are cognate words ?
Cartography / Cartografia
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What is a Primary Source?
A Sumerian clay tablet that lists religious offerings for a Temple.
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What is farming ?
Once people learned how to do this, they could settle down and build larger villages.
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Who was Hammurabi ?
He wrote "The Code of Hammurabi."
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What is a physical map ?
On these maps, colors are used to distinguish elevation.
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What is Seven Billion ?
According to the historical graph on world population that was presented in class, what is the present world population ?
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What is a Primary Source.
The Gallic Wars, written by Julius Caesar about his conquest of Gaul.
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What is irrigation ?
People learned how to dig ditches to allow water to flow into farming fields.
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Who were the Assyrians ?
These people were hated by all nations because of their deliberate policy of cruelty and terrorism.
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