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Week 2: Notes (Page 1-2) Part 1
Define the material economy,
What is population control,
What are the five components of t...
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Week 2: Notes (Page 1-2) Part 1
Define natural capital,
What is deforestation,
What change in debt handling occu...
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Week 2: Notes (Page 3) Part 1
Define safe operating space for h...,
What does it mean to have limits ...,
Why do people often resist the id...
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Week 2: Notes (Page 3) Part 2
Explain why civilizations of the ...,
Describe how limits could transfo...,
Match each term with its descript...
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Week 2: Movie - Surviving Progress, Ronald Wright
What is the central theme of the ...,
Who is the author whose ideas ins...,
Which concept does surviving prog...
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Week 2: Movie - Surviving Progress, Ronald Wright, Part 2
Why is it important to separate g...,
What is the concept of progress i...,
How does surviving progress view ...
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Week 2: Movie - Surviving Progress, Ronald Wright. Class Discussion
Define externalities in the conte...,
Why might the concept of ancestra...,
What role does debt financed reso...
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Week 2: Part 1 - Lowenthal, David - Article: Environmental History from Genesis to Apocalypse
Who wrote environmental history f...,
What is the definition of environ...,
How does lowenthal frame environm...
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Week 2: Part 2 - Lowenthal, David - Article: Environmental History from Genesis to Apocalypse
True or false lowenthal argues th...,
What does apocalypse represent in...,
What does lowenthal use genesis t...
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Week 2: Part 3 - Article: Environmental History from Genesis to Apocalypse
How does lowenthal view the impac...,
True or false environmental histo...,
According to lowenthal which of t...
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Week 2: Part 4 - Article: Environmental History from Genesis to Apocalypse
What is the main theme of david l...,
What is the main thing to remembe...,
What is environmental history as ...
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Week 2: Part 5 - Article: Lowenthal, David - Environmental History from Genesis to Apocalypse
How does lowenthal link environme...,
In what way does lowenthal sugges...,
Define the key term dominion
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Week 2: Slides (1-4)
Define environmental history,
What does intellectual hierarchy ...,
Why did soviet history become les...
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Week 2: (Slides 5-6)
Define geographic determinism,
What was the classical period of ...,
How did environmental historians ...
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Week 2 (Slides 5-8) Part 2
Explain the role of the annaliste...,
Why was rachel carson s silent sp...,
Match each historical figure or c...
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Week 2 (Slides 9)
What is the bilateral approach in...,
How is environmental history simi...,
Why is environmental history cons...
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Week 2 (Slides 10-12)
Define presentist in the context ...,
What does prescriptive mean in en...,
Why does environmental history re...
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Week 2 (Slide 13-15)
True or false if planetary histor...,
Explain why compressing planetary...,
Why is it significant that the py...
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Week 2 (Slide 15-17)
Define milankovitch cycles,
How does the axial tilt of earth ...,
What is precession in the context...
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Week 2 (Slide 18-20)
Define the longue duree in the co...,
Why is taking a long view importa...,
The holocene epoch began approxim...
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Week 2 (Slide 21)
According to the map which route ...,
Define pristine environment in th...,
Why might the concept of a pristi...
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Week 2: Notes on Slides 1
What is historiography,
Why was soviet history a popular ...,
Who are two key american nature w...
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Week 2: Notes on Slides 2
Describe the difference between e...,
Match the conceptmatch each term ...,
Fill in the blank
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Week 2: Presentist & Prescriptive
Mix and matcha presentistb prescr...,
Presentist or prescriptive,
For example if we re worried abou...
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Week 3 Article Part 1: Did a comet cause agriculture?
What climatic event caused by a c...,
Fill in the blankq the ________ i...,
Match each term with its correct ...
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Week 3 Article Part 2: Did a comet cause agriculture?
What environmental change at abu ...,
Fill in the blank the presence of...,
What key evidence supports the th...
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Week 3 (Slide 1-3)
What was a key factor that enable...,
Fill in the blankthe idea of a __...,
Explain how the concept of a pris...
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Week 3 (Slide 4-6)
Multiple choice what was one of t...,
Fill in the blank one of the main...,
What skills contributed to the su...
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Week 3 (Slide 8-9)
When did pastoralism likely emerg...,
Which of the following best descr...,
What was a common resource for pa...
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Week 3 (Slide 8-9)
When did pastoralism likely emerg...,
Which of the following best descr...,
What was a common resource for pa...
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Week 3 (Slide 12-14)
Which of the following best descr...,
What climate event is thought to ...,
Fill in the blankthe shift to agr...
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Week 3 (Slide 15-18)
What is the younger dryas named a...,
What role does the atlantic conve...,
Fill in the blankthe younger drya...
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Week 3 (Slide 19-22)
Why was the domestication of eink...,
What mutation in einkorn wheat le...,
Fill in the blankthe mutation in ...
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Week 3 (Slide 23-26)
What was a major demographic impa...,
What effect did sedentary life ha...,
Fill in the blank close quarters ...
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Week 3 (Notes) 1
What was the outdated story of hu...,
What has undermined the idea that...,
Why is the concept of a pristine ...
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Week 3 (Notes) 2
What evidence undermined the idea...,
What is silviculture a the practi...,
Where did agriculture first emerg...
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Week 3 (Notes) 3
Place these events in chronologic...,
Define firestick farming,
Define younger dryas
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Week 4: CRAAP Test 1
Which question best evaluates the...,
If you are writing a research pap...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (1-3))
Define wealth in the context of e...,
Question what does the presence o...,
True or falsestatement the constr...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (4-5)
What is a beveled rim bowl brb,
What percentage of ceramics found...,
True or falsestatement beveled ri...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (6-7) 1
Who was sargon of akkad,
What led to the replacement of pr...,
True or falsestatement the rise o...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (6-7) 2
Why did warrior kings rather than...,
What is one reason sargon of akka...,
Why did the rise of trained warri...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (8-9)) 1
What is salinization in the conte...,
Around what time did crop yields ...,
True or falsestatement mesopotami...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (8-9) 2
Why is mesopotamia sometimes refe...,
What eventually happened to the s...,
How did egyptian farmers unintent...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (10-11) 1
What was the purpose of the first...,
What was one of gamal abdel nasse...,
True or falsestatement egypt was ...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (10-11) 2
Why is silt buildup in lake nasse...,
True or falsestatement the aswan ...,
Why is the aswan dam considered a...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (13-15) 1
What is a paddy field,
Around what time did rice cultiva...,
True or falsestatement prehistori...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (16)
Why is rice paddy farming conside...,
True or falsestatement rice stalk...,
Which of the following is a metho...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (17)
What type of infrastructure chang...,
What is terracing in the context ...,
True or falseonce the infrastruct...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (18)
What was one of the main reasons ...,
Why did technological innovation ...,
Which of the following factors co...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (19-20)
Define slash and burn agriculture,
What major problem is associated ...,
Compare the agricultural life in ...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (21-22)
What are the four main factors th...,
Which of the following factors wa...,
The manor system emphasized _____...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (23-25)
Define manor economy,
Why was the heavy plough importan...,
Which of the following was a crop...
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (27-29))
True or false after 1300 europe e...,
Yes or no did medieval european a...,
Define little ice age
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Week 4: Notes and Slides (28)
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Why was ale a more common drink t...,
What was the typical diet of medi...
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Week 5: Notes and Slide (1-3)
Define zoonosis,
Define agricultural revolution,
Why was disease less common among...
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Week 5: Notes and Slide (4-6)
Define indirect contact,
Define direct contact,
How did herding animals into livi...
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Week 5: Notes and Slides (5-6) 1
Define,
Define,
Why did countries with extensive ...
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Week 5: Notes and Slides (5-6) 2
Explain why epidemic outbreaks we...,
What role did human carriers play...,
Match each epidemic with its hist...
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Week 5: Notes and Slides (7-8)
Definebiological warfare,
How did the plague spread from ce...,
True or false some medieval citie...
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Week 5: Notes and Slides (9)
Define buboes,
Define quarantine,
Why did people during the plague ...
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Week 5: Notes and Slides (10)
Define proto urbanization,
Define feudalism,
How did the high mortality rate d...
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Week 5: Notes and Slide (11-12)
Define quarantine,
Define sanitation,
Why was the idea of cleanliness i...
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Week 5: Notes and Slides (13-14)
Define,
Define,
What was john snow s significant ...
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Week 5: Slides and Notes (15-17)
Define,
Define,
How did the arrival of spanish co...
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Week 5: Guns, Germs, and Steel 1
What theory does jared diamond pr...,
According to diamond which of the...,
Which crop is commonly associated...
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Week 5: Guns, Germs, and Steel 2
Match each concept to its descrip...,
Match each region with its histor...,
Explain the significance of the e...
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Week 5: Guns, Germs, and Steel 3
Explain the term surplus and its ...,
Drag and dropelements gunsgermsst...,
True or false diamond argues that...
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Week 5: Articles 1
What is the tragedy of the common...,
In hardin s example how does each...,
What solution does hardin suggest...
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Week 5: Articles 2
What is a nested enterprise and w...,
What are the global implications ...,
How does hardin s concept apply t...
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Week 7: (Slides 1-3) 1
What was alfred crosby s big idea...,
Fill in the blankthe concept of t...,
True falsetrue or false the myth ...
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Week 7: (Slides 1-3) 2
True or false the columbian excha...,
Which of the following was not a ...,
Define global exchanges in the co...
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Week 7: Slides (3-4)
What does jared diamond mean by c...,
True falsetrue or false geography...,
Fill in the blankdiamond s theory...
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Week 7: Slides (5)
What does jared diamond mean by f...,
True or false diamond argues that...,
Fill in the blankdiamond s theory...
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Week 7: Slides (6-7)
Why was eurasia uniquely position...,
True or false in the americas the...,
Fill in the blankthe domesticatio...
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Week 7: Slides (8-9)
What was one consequence of euras...,
True falsetrue or false high popu...,
Fill in the blankthe spread of di...
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Week 7: Slide (10) Alfred Crosby
Who was alfred crosby,
What is alfred crosby s columbian...,
Why is alfred crosby considered a...
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Week 7: Slides (11) Pristine Myth
What is the pristine myth a the b...,
Which religious cultural idea inf...,
Which religious cultural idea inf...
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Week 7: Study Guide Multiple Choice
What was the columbian exchange a...,
Which crop from the americas sign...,
What term describes the belief th...
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Week 7: Study Guide 2
Fill in the blank questions,
Fill in the blank questions,
Fill in the blank questions
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Week 7: Study Guide 3
Which indigenous civilization in ...,
What phase of european empires fo...,
Who was the historian that coined...
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Week 7: Study Guide 4
Why did indigenous populations la...,
What evidence challenges the pris...,
Describe the significance of the ...
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Week 7: Slide (12-13) Problems of number
Who calculated the native populat...,
According to james mooney s calcu...,
True or false according to the cl...
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Week 7: Slide (14) Evidence of Numbers
Who calculated a pre contact indi...,
Which epidemics were recorded by ...,
What was the significance of geor...
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Week 7: Slide (15) North America Civilizations
Fill in the blankquestion in 1539...,
What was the likely cause of the ...,
Explain why the reappearance of t...
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Week 7: Slide (16-17)
Before european contact what was ...,
Fill in the blank the population ...,
What impact did european contact ...
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Week 7: Slide (18-20) Amazonia
What is terra preta in the contex...,
Fill in the blankq excavations in...,
What does the term built environm...
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Week 7: Slides (21-22)
What global event beginning in th...,
Fill in the blank in 1500 the glo...,
By what percentage did the global...
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Week 7: Slides (23-24)
What countries primarily led the ...,
What was the main goal of the emp...,
True or false the empires of conq...
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Week 7: Slides (25) Phase III: Industrial Empires
Which of the following was a key ...,
Fill in the blank during the indu...,
True or false during the industri...
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Week 7: Article (Charles C. Mann's "1491 - The Americas Before European Contact.") 1
What misconception about the amer...,
Which regions in the americas had...,
How did indigenous peoples in the...
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Week 7: Article (Charles C. Mann's "1491 - The Americas Before European Contact.") 2
Which indigenous culture is known...,
Why did indigenous groups use con...,
What does mann suggest about the ...
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Week 7: Article (Charles C. Mann's "1491 - The Americas Before European Contact.") 3
What was the capital city of the ...,
Terra preta a nutrient rich soil ...,
Indigenous contributions to globa...
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Week 8: Slides and Notes 1
Question what was a key element o...,
Question the atlantic triangle en...,
How did industrial empires in the...
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Week 8: Slides and Notes 2
Define capital accumulation,
Describe one way that european em...,
Fill in the blank the ___________...
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Week 8: Slides and Notes 3
How did disease impact indigenous...,
True or false the agricultural re...,
Which innovation by james watt wa...
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Week 8: Slides and Notes 4
What was a consequence of introdu...,
Define cash crop,
What was the impact of the columb...
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Week 8: Slides and Notes 5
Define industrial crops,
What does capital accumulation dr...,
How did european philosophy justi...
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Week 8: Slides and Notes 6
Name two crops that dramatically ...,
Fill in the blank the agricultura...,
How did diseases like smallpox af...
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Week 8: Slides and Notes 7
True or falsethe enclosure moveme...,
True or false,
True or false
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Week 8: Slides and Notes - Multiple Choice 2
What was a primary goal of the at...,
Which of the following is not con...,
The enclosure movement in england...
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Week 8: Slides and Notes - Multiple Choice 3
Which statement best describes th...,
Which of the following best descr...,
How did european capitalism contr...
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Week 8: Slide 18-20
How did market capitalism come to...,
What was the primary purpose of t...,
Why was it important that ships i...
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Week 8: Slides (21) Breadfruit
Why did europeans introduce the b...,
The breadfruit tree introduced to...,
What event is famously associated...
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Week 8: Slide (22) Developing the World Economy
What significant change in the gl...,
How did the emergence of a global...,
True or false the economic gap be...
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Week 8: Slide (23) Environmental Impact of European Imperialism
How did european imperialism disr...,
Why did food imports become neces...,
True or false the primary purpose...
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Week 8: Slide (24) The Second Great Transition
What is a major environmental imp...,
Who referred to fossil fuels as f...,
True or false the release of sequ...
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Week 8: Slide (25) Elements of Power
What were the three interlinked p...,
How did the shortage of wood in e...,
What is steam power and why was i...
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Week 8: Slide (28) The I. R.: English Origins, 1750-1800
How did increased food production...,
Why was britain s financial syste...,
How did the british parliament su...
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Week 8: Slide (30) Dissent
What was the english test act and...,
Why did many inventors of the ind...,
True or false most inventions dur...
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Textbook: Introduction 1
Which of the following scholars i...,
What did the coal revolution enab...,
What does the fossilized remains ...
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Textbook: Introduction 2
Q what does decentering europe ai...,
Who is david christian and what c...,
Why is the coal revolution consid...
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Textbook: Introduction 3
Fill in the blank questions,
Fill in the blank questions,
Fill in the blank questions
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Textbook: Chapter 1 - An Evolving Earth 1
What event marks the beginning of...,
How old is earth and how did it form,
What was the initial atmosphere o...
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Textbook: Chapter 1 - An Evolving Earth 2
Ice comets and cosmic rain cooled...,
What are the icehouse and greenho...,
What are tectonic plates
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Textbook: Chapter 1 - An Evolving Earth 3
What was the paleocene eocene the...,
What is the antarctic circumpolar...,
What are the icehouse and greenho...
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Textbook: Chapter 1 - An Evolving Earth 4
What are glacial and interglacial...,
What is the holocene epoch,
How did the mediterranean sea evo...
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Textbook: Chapter 1 - Evolving Earth 4
Fill in the blank,
Fill in the blank,
Fill in the blankthe ____________...
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Textbook: Chapter 2, 1
Which hypothesis suggests that al...,
What is the term for the process ...,
What role did tectonic activity p...
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Textbook: Chapter 2, 2
Who was mitochondrial eve a the f...,
What was significant about h erec...,
Which of the following contribute...
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Textbook: Chapter 2, 3
The east african rift system is a...,
Which epoch marks the beginning o...,
What was the primary impact of th...
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Textbook: Chapter 2, 4
Explain the broad spectrum revolu...,
How did the hypothalamus aid earl...,
What is one major difference betw...
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Textbook: Chapter 2, 5
The __________ epoch saw rapid gl...,
The retreat of the __________ sea...,
Mix and match
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Textbook: Chapter 2, 6
In 1987 which geneticists used mi...,
N genetic literature who is refer...,
What was the effect of the eight ...
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Textbook: Chapter 2, H. erectus
How did the physical attributes o...,
How did the evolution of human in...,
How did the development of a comm...
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Textbook: Chapter 2, H. Sapians
When did h sapiens first leave af...,
What evidence suggests that h sap...,
What does the sequencing of neand...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, 1
The broad spectrum revolution ref...,
True or false the late glacial pl...,
Fill in the blank the ______ peri...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, 2
Fill in the blank the green revol...,
According to the population press...,
True or false alluvial floodplain...
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Textbook, Chapter 3, 4
What did pollen analysis during t...,
D krakatoa,
Between 1750 and 1850 ce what per...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, 3
How did the biologically old regi...,
How did the environment of mesoam...,
Which crops were central to the a...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, 5
True or false the younger dryas p...,
The fertile crescent is bordered ...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, 6
What role did river valleys and f...,
The invention of agriculture is c...,
Why did early farmers prioritize ...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, 7
True or false kinship based gover...,
The green revolution began in the...,
Fill in the blank nutrient rich s...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, Population Pressure Hypothesis
Ester boserup suggested that incr...,
Whose theory suggests that agricu...,
What hypothesis did ester boserup...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, Biologically Old Regime
Robert b marks described the depe...,
The biologically old regime empha...,
True or false in the biologically...
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Textbook: Chapter 3, The Green Revolution
What was the primary purpose of t...,
Who is most associated with the d...,
What advancements were key to the...
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Chapter 3: 1st Green Revolution
What is the commonly associated t...,
What evidence did historian edwar...,
Multiple choice what was guano us...
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Chapter 3: 2nd Green Revolution
What key change took place in agr...,
How did the world s population an...,
What was the primary cause of hun...
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Chapter 3: Agro-business, Food Prices, and Climate Change
How has agro business impacted sm...,
What is the main issue with the s...,
What percentage of the world s po...
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Whose Smirk is This?
Whose smirk is this,
Whose smirk is this,
Whose smirk is this
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MAPS
What is the area highlighted in g...,
Label the settlement,
What is this region known as
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Chapter 4: Demographics
According to estimates how many m...,
Fill in the blank the transition ...,
Match the event with the populati...
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Chapter 4: The Role of Disease in Calculating Population Size
Why did infectious disease spread...,
Fill in the blankdiseases that ca...,
Which of the following is not a z...
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Chapter 4: The Impact of Migration and Settlement on Global Population Growth
What is one reason sedentary life...,
Fill in the blankearly human use ...,
Multiple choicewhat agricultural ...
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Chapter 4: The Role of Nutrition in Early Population Growth
Why were early hunter gatherer po...,
True falsehunter gatherers genera...,
Fill in the blankpopulation densi...
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Chapter 4: The Role of Animal Domestication in the Spread of Infectious Disease
What was one significant result o...,
True falsediseases such as smallp...,
Fill in the blankthe close quarte...
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Chapter 4: Nutrition, Climate Change, and Population
What is the difference between nu...,
What role did climate change play...,
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Chapter 4: A Population Bomb or Not?
Who was thomas malthus and what d...,
What is the current global popula...,
Where is 90 of the current popula...
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