Social studies terms Flashcards

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History

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Story of the past

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The science that studies the land features in habitants of phenomena of earth

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Geography

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3
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The study of people in their culture is by analyzing the artifacts and inscription’s monuments and other remains

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Archaeology

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4
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The name someone who studies people in their cultures by analyzing the artifacts and inscription’s monument another remains

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Archaeologist

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5
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A peoples way of life

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Culture

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6
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These items that arrived from the environment some are essential for our survival while most are used for satisfying our wants and needs

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Natural resources

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7
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The organization of past events according to their date

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Chronology

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8
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Diaries speeches manuscripts letters interviews news film footage autobiographies and official records are all what type of source

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Primary source

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9
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Textbooks magazine articles histories criticisms commentaries and encyclopedias are all examples of what type of source

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Secondary source

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10
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Transition out of a lifestyle based on hunting and gathering to a lifestyle based on farming is called the

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Neolithic Revolution

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11
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The main shelter for the haudenosaunee or Iroquois

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Longhouse

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12
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The climate of Cortland New York USA is

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Humid continental

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13
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Rain snow sleet or hail the falls to the ground

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Precipitation

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14
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The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat dryness sunshine and wind rain etc.

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Weather

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15
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The average weather over multi-decade time. For a particular region

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Climate

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16
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A region in which people share, customs language and rituals

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Culture area

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17
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More than what is needed or used

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Surplus

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18
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The angular distance north or south of the earths equator

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Latitude

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19
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Angular distance east or west of the prime meridian

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Longitude

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20
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The hohokams lived is dry dessert climate so they dug ditches to bring water to their farm fields this is known as

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Irrigation

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21
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What group of people lived in the pit house or igloo

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Inuit

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22
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Brad platform is created and steep slopes to increase farm productivity

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Terraces

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23
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A trio of plants that many Native Americans consumed

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The three sisters

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24
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Sun-dried bricks at the Anasazi used to build the villages

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Adobe pueblos

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25
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Mount Hills and plateaus are examples of

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Landforms

26
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Hunters and gatherers frequently move from place to place in search of food this type of societal structure is known as

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Nomadic

27
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A connection between Asia and North America that developed during The ice ages

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Land bridge

28
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This is the study of how people choose to use and manage their resources

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Economics

29
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A transfer of plants animals and diseases that greatly altered life on both sides of the Atlantic

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Colombian exchange

30
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A direct water route to the Americas which explores eventually proved not to exist

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North west passage

31
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A network interlinking trade routes that connected Afro - Eurasia

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Silk road

32
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The first person to circumnavigate the globe

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Ferdinand Magellan

33
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In 1492 he sailed the ocean blue and discovered what he thought was the Indies

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Christopher Columbus

34
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The tool that allows cells to determine their direction when they were far from land

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Compass

35
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The three g’s

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Gold,god and glory

36
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The instrument that allowed sailors to determine the latitude well at sea

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Astrolab

37
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I ship inspired by the Arabs that had a stern rudder triangular masts and could sail into the wind and navigate shallow water

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Caravel

38
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Goods or services sold outside of a country

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Export

39
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Goods or services brought into a country

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Import

40
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System under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold and are forced to work

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Slavery

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To pay for the passage to America they agreed to work without pay for a certain length of time

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Indentured servants

42
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The economic theory of that stated that the county should produce money for the parent country

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Mercantilism

43
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The popular Atlantic trade route the carried sugar molasses rum and slaves

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Triangular trade

44
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And infamous trade route between Africa and the New World

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Middle passage

45
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Spanish soldiers explorers and adventurous who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain in the 1400 and 1500s

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Conquistadors

46
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Crops grown in large enough quantity sold for profit

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Cash crop

47
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A group of people who settle in a distant territory but still remain loyal to their native parent country

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Colony

48
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The systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another group

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Persecution

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A voluntary act of protest to stop buying/using goods from a country

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Boycott

50
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The war that took place from 1754 to 1763 in North America and was part of a larger struggle between England and France to control the world trade and ocean travel.

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French and Indian war

51
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Citizen soldiers

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Militia

52
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Colonists who supported great Britain

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Loyalists

53
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Colonists who supported independence

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Patriots

54
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Approved on July 4, 1776 this document stated the colonist were breaking free from the British Empire and setting up their own country

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Declaration of Independence

55
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This battle was a major turning point in the war because after the Americans won the French decided to help the Americans fight the British their a long time rival

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Saratoga

56
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A plan for how a government will function and work

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Constitution

57
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A system that allows each branch of government to limit the power of each other so that no single branch can dominate the government

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Separation of powers

58
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The branch of government which creates the laws

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Legislative

59
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Branch of government which enforces the laws

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Executive

60
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Branch of government which evaluates the laws

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Judicial