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| traditional stories about the origin and history of a people and their gods, ancestors, and heroes |
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| attitudes, beliefs, customs, and traditions |
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| physical features of a region |
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| the spread of ideas, values, and inventions from one culture to another |
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| parallels, run east and west around the globe, Equator is the main parallel |
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| meridians, run north and south around the globe, Prime Meridian is the main meridian |
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| ways of transferring the fured surface of the earth onto a flat map |
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| navigational tool that helped determine the height and distance of stars |
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| navigational tool used to determine the earth's circumference |
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| the history of humans before the development of writing |
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| legends, myths, and beliefs that a culture passes from generation to generation by word of mouth |
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| prehistoric human settlement |
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| the process of adapting an animal or plant to lie in a human environment, making it more useful to humans |
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| able to provide for oneself without the help of others |
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| type of temple tower with storerooms and workrooms |
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| rich land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
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| long poem that tells the story of a hero |
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| belief in more than one god |
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| triangle-shaped deposit of soil near the mouth of a river |
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