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Define: primary document

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A document written by people in history native to the time period being studied.

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Define: artifact

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A man made object or tool from the past that a historian studies

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Define: archeologist

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A specialist in the study of early humans

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Define: anthropologist

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Scientists who study the origin, development, distribution, social habits, and culture of humans

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Define: paleontologist

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Scientists who examine fossil remains of animal and plant life to understand past geological periods

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Define: paleoanthropologist

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Scientists who study fossil remains to better understand the culture of humans

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What did the discovery of fire allow early humans to do?

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  1. it allowed them to spread into more inhospitable climates
  2. Allowed man to smoke food to preserve it longer
  3. It allowed humans to harden tools by heating the water out of them
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What is the Neolithic revoloution?

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It was when human ancestors shifted from being hunter-gatherers to being food producers.

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What are the four criteria for a culture to be considered civilized?

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  1. Literacy - writing things to be read later
  2. Specialization of labour - not everyone is a farmer or hunter
  3. Artisans - art, culture, etc.
  4. Technology - structures, tools, etc.
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Where was Mesopotamia located?

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It was located in the Fertile Crescent

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What was the Fertile Crescent?

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The Fertile Crescent was an area of land that was fertile for crop growing crops because of the annual flooding that would occur

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What was the code of Hammurabi?

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It was a written code of laws and was the first common law system put in place in the world

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What is the term that describes documents being translated into common language

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Vernacular

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Who was the monk that applied the scientific method?

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Roger Bacon

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hat was the order of monks who focused on science an learning?

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Dominican

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What it the term that describes the area a bishop is in charge of?

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Diocese

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What is the name of the lands in the holding of a lord?

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Feifdom

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what is the yearly tax exacted from chuchgoers?

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Tithe

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What is the form of medieval entertainment that evovlved from jousting?

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Tilting

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Who was the person that wrote the divine comedy?

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Dante Algheri

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The creature who domesticated animals and farmed food?

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Homo Sapien Sapiens

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What was the first society on Greece that lived on the island of Crete?

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Minoan

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What is the name of the place from which Miltades sent Phedippides to run 250km?

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Marathon

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Who was the individual that created the greatest fighting force in the world and utilized the phalanx formation to its greatest potential?

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Phillip II

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What was the term for Athenians to vote someone of high power out of the city?

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Ostracism

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Who was the Greek god that lead the dead past cerebus into the underworld?

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Hermes

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What was the City-state that inspected babies for flaws when they were born?

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Sparta

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Who was the renaissance writer that wrote Utopia?

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Thomas More

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Whom was the Greek playwright that sympathized with women and tried to show that they were undermined?

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Euripides

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who was the Greek philosopher that believed that state could excel if all the citizen adhered to the virtues of truth, wisdom, courage, and modernization?

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Plato

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what was the reason that Rome developed of the banks of the Tiber River?

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Trade routes

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What was the name of the family that ruled the Italian peninsula until 509 BCE?

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Tarquin

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what was the name of the second line of older men in a Roman legion?

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Princepis

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what was the term and reason given for Joan of Arc being the saviour of France?

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Martyr

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What was the war between the house of lancaster and the house of york called?

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The War of the Roses

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What was the name of Henry VIII’s wife whom died in childbirth?

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Jane Seymore

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Who was the ruler that caused the chain of events leading up to the writing of the Magna Carta?

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John I

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What was the city, other than Florence, credited with the start of the renaissance?

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Venice

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what was the side of a Roman road called?

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Agger

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What was the Roman system used to transport water called?

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Aquaduct

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What is the type of religion that was not based upon rituals?

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Dogmatism

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What was the method by which Roman priests interpreted the will of the gods?

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Divination

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what was the french equivalent for the great council?

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Estates General

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Who was the ruler that wanted revive learning?

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Charlemagne

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Where was the place where Roman children learned literature, language, history, music, geometry, and astrology?

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Grammaticus

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What was the name of the battle where Hannibal defeated the Romans with his calvary and superior tactics?

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Cannae

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Who was the Roman emperor that was popular with the senate because he sent them regular reports?

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Trajan

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What is the latin term for “Great Roman Peace”?

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Pax Romana

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What was the name of the Roman emperor that made his horse consul?

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Caligula

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What was the position in the Roman senate that was responsible for issuing public works?

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Aedile

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What was the name of the sculptor whom created the marble statue of David?

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Michelangelo

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what was the term for somebody who went against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church?

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Heretic

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What was the term given for the agricultural revolution in Europe?

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The Great Clearing

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this style of cathedral focused on maximizing space and use of stained-glass windows

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Gothic

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this type of artwork was created in monastareys.

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Illuminated maanuscript

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this creature used stone tool and lived in dug out pits.

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Homo Erectus

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What is the place where Octavius and Marc Antony defeated Cassius and Brutus?

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Phillipi

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What was the position who dictated whom was in the senate prior to 318 BCE?

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Consul

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What was the mountain range that separated communities in Central Europe?

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The Pyrenees

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Who is considered to be the first king of England?

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Alfred the great

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What family ruled Florence during the Renaissance?

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Medici

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What was the most common and simplest column design?

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Doric

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What was the heating system of a Roman house called?

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The hypocaust

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What was the name of the tribe that ruled the Iberian peninsula?

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The Visigoths

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Who was the French ruler that was crowned king?

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Pepin

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Who wrote the Decameron?

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Who wrote the prince?

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Machiavelli

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What was the name Octavius preferred to be called?

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Princeps

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What is the term that refers to focus on human concerns and classicism during the renaissance?

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Humanism

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