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Social Studies Exam
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Geography
7th Grade
12/15/2010

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archeologist
Definition
study the past by examining objects that people have left behind
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lucy
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belonged to austrolepithecus afernsis
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athrolopithecus afernsis
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the first hominid they are biped
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homo habilis
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they made tools and are also called handy man
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homo erectus
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they were the first to build firethere name is also upright man
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homo sapiens neanderthals
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they had better tools they worked together skilled tool makers there name is neanderthal man
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homo sapiens sapiens
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they were the first artists they invented the spear thrower better weapons there names were double wise man
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large communities
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thay helped defend themselves easier working together
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mesopatamia
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very hard place to live many problems food sortages the northern part was hilly and recieved rain southhern partwas low plains grew into large cities
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irragation system
Definition
supplying land with water
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city-states
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are large communties that helped the solution to problems thai was how the sumerians solved there problems
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akkadians
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they were led by a king named sargon
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hammurabi
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the king of the babylonian empire he is best known for his code of laws
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assyrain mounds
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used to make palaces higher than all the surrounding buildings
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walls of  babylon
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it was very thick archers would stand on top of them
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nile
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located in egypt, egyptians and kushites settled near it, it provided alot
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desert
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very dry, they formed a natural barrier to help protect the people living in the nile valley
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herders
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tend the flock of sheep,goats,cattle,etc they were nomads t find a good place of good land for their animals graze
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what did khufu do to be accepted
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he told everyone he was a god
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sunserets archetecture
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finest achievement was the white chapel, also temples shrines and religious monuments
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ramsesll
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best known for military leadership he signed a peace treaty with the hittites after there most famous war when they went agianst hitties
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scribes
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are people that write on tablets they keep data for the pharoah have to go to school in order to do that
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women
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manage the houshold some of them had slaves to help them with there work but the ones st the bottom had to do work themselves
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egyptianization
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when kush was overruled by egypt
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piye
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was the kush king, egypt surrendered to him, he united kush and egypt
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mereo
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kush capital helped kush remain kush a important city of traid
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abraham
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introduced the belief of the hebrews God told him told himto move his family from mesopatamia to canaan
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moses
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led his people out of slavery from egypt gave judiasm its fundamental laws
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david
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established jeruselem as a holy city
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solomn
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built jeruslms first great temple
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exodus
Definition
the escape of the hebrew from egyptian slavery
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