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Question 0

Movement?

Answer 0

People, goods, ideas moving from place to place.

Question 1

Five themes of Geography?

Answer 1

Movement, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, Regions, Place.

Question 2

Human-Environment Interaction?

Answer 2

How people interact with their environment, example: wearing coat in cold weather, using umbrella when it’s raining.

Question 3

Location?

Answer 3

Relative Location: Describing where a place is, ex: “It’s next to a shell gas station,”
Absolute Location: Exactly where a place is, ex: coordinates.

Question 4

Regions?

Answer 4

Characteristics compared to other locations.

Question 5

Place?

Answer 5

Study physical features.

Question 6

Anthropology.

Answer 6

Study of human kind

Question 7

Prehistory.

Answer 7

Time before written documentation

Question 8

Artifact.

Answer 8

Object made by early man.

Question 9

Domesticate.

Answer 9

To tame an animal.

Question 10

Surplus

Answer 10

Extra amount

Question 11

Polytheistic

Answer 11

Belief in many gods

Question 12

Scribe

Answer 12

Someone who could read/write

Question 13

Cultural diffusion

Answer 13

Blending of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another

Question 14

How did Paleolithic people survive?

Answer 14

We’re hunters and gatherers

Question 15

What was the Neolithic revolution and why was it important?

Answer 15

Farming occurred, people started domesticating animals.

Question 16

List the eight features of early civilization.

Answer 16

Cities
Well organized central government, complex religions, job specialization, social classes, arts and architecture, public works, and writing.

Question 17

Three examples of cultural diffusion in today’s world.

Answer 17

• Clothing trends that start in some place sands as those people move to new places the trends move as well.
• Music is another example; people from different cultures start releasing albums in many languages and genres that originate from certain places and are spread to others.
• Food as well. For example, sushi is originated from Japan, and the Japanese came here and settled; people have Americanized their dishes and Japanese sushi bars are almost everywhere!

Question 18

What kind of evidence to historians use to study the past?

Answer 18

Historians use artifacts that have made it through out the years, either being preserved with scientists, or dug up in the past years.

Question 19

How did job specialization lead to the emergence of social classes?

Answer 19

The different jobs gave different amounts of pay and authority to people, therefore giving them their place in society.