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People who study the history of the planet

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Geologists

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Study of the earth

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Geology

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Everything was made by someone powerful

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Creationism

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A belief in the presence of spirits inhabiting nature

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Animism

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There is only one god

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Monotheism

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Series of calamities wiped away many species of plants and animals

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Catastrophe Theory

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Fossils were remains of animals that died due to the Great Flood

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Diluvial Theory

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A great cloud of dust called nebula is the origin of the sun and the rest of the solar system

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Nebular Hypothesis

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A star that died due to collision

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Nebula

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A sun that is continually being formed

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Protosun

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A rock type object formed in the collision of objects in the solar system

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Planetisimal

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The universe originated from a protostar

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Capture Theory

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The universe starts with a small singularity then inflates over the next years

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Big Bang Theory

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Comes from the Greek word “geos” and “grapheia”

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Geography

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5 aspects in geography

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Location, physical features, man-nature, migration of man, region

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A flat representation of the world

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Map

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Resembles the shape of the earth

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Globe

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Divides the globe into 2 hemispheres

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Equator

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Divides the globe into east and west

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Prime Meridian

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Angular distance from West to east and vice versa

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Latitude

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Angular distance from North to south and vice versa

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Longitude

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Large mass located on the surface of the earth

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Continent

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All continents were part of a supercontinent called

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Pangea

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Disintegration of continents

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Plate Tectonics

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Northern Hemispheres

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Laurasia

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Southern Hemispheres

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Gondwanoland

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Two types of Creationist

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New Earth and Old Earth

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People who study animals and plants

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Naturalists

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29
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The book written by Charles Darwin that contains his experiences while traveling

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Origin of Species by means of Natural selection

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Survival of the fittest

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Evolution by Natural Selections

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Show ability of survive

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Fittest

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32
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Each living species look different from their ancestors

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Evolution by Descent Modification

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Exact order of the evolution of human

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Australopithecus, habilis, erectus, neanderthalensis, sapiens

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The process of biological changes that occurs in human

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Evolution

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A way of living

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Civilization

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36
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Writing form of summerians

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Cuneiform

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A place to offer food, animals and more

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Ziggurat

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38
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Belief to many gods

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Polytheistic

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Sargon J

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Akkadians

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Code of Hammurabi

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Babylonians

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Shamsi Adad

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Assyrians

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Chaldeans

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Cyrus the Great

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Persian

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Longest river

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Nile river

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Considered as a god who holds the secret of both the sky and earth

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Pharaohs

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Scholars who study Egypt

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Egyptologists

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People in ancient Egypt who learned to write and read

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Scribes

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Means sacred inscriptions

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Hieroglyphics

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Independent communities

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Nomes

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Leader of nomes

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Nomarchs

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Unified upper and lower Egypt

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Menes

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Made by 2.3 million blocks

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Great Pyramid of Khufu

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Longest ruler

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Pepi II

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First pharaoh of the new kingdom

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Ahmose

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First female pharaoh

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Hatsheput

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Successfully conquered Palestine and Syria

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Thutmose

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Asian travelers who conquered Egypt

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Hykos

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Fought Hykos

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Kamose

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Monotheisn in Egypt

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Amenhotep IV

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Most famous pharaoh

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Tutankhamen

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Last ruler

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Seti and Ramese II

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Contributions of Egyptian civilization

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Hieroglyphics, marvelous structures, calendar, mummification, understood the structure of the human body, restore broken bones and heal wounds

63
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Located in Crete

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Minoan

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King of Minoan

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King Minos

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Wife of Minos

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Queen Pasiphae

66
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Capital of Minoan

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Knossos

67
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Half bull, half human

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Minotaur

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The one who killed the minotaur

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Theseus

69
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Way of writing of the Minoan

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Linear A

70
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Famous Greek writer, wrote Illiad

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Homer

71
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Paintings made on the wall

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Frecoes

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King of Mycenaean

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Agamemnon

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System of writing of Myceneans

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Linear B

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What did the greek call themselves?

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Hellenes

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City-state

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Polis

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Place where they gathered goods

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Agora

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Highest place in city-state

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acropolis

78
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What type of gov’t is Athens?

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Democratic

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Gov’t of the few

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Oligarchy

80
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Gov’t of the many

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Democracy

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Defended the condition of the poor

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Pisistratus

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Allowed people to banish their officials who they think were dangerous to Athens

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Ostracism

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What kind of gov’t is Sparta?

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Military

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The war between Athens and Sparta

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Peloponnesian war

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Who formulated the Pythagorean theorem?

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Pythagoras

86
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Advanced method of measuring the circumference of a circle

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Archimedes

87
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Father of Geometry

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Euclid

88
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Discovered that the earth revolved around the sun on its own axis

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Aristarchus

89
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Make an estimate of the circumference of the earth

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Eratosthenes

90
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3 styles of columns in greek buildings

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Doric, Ionic and Corinthian

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Established a school for the study of the medicine

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Hippocrates

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Herophilus

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Father of Anatomy

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Erasistratus

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Father of Physiology

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Greatest philosophers

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Socrates, aristotle, plato

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