skills were made possible by the large brain and intelligence that goes with it. Question 3: After nearly 2 million years of physical and cultural development‚ how did human communities in different parts of the world learn to manipulate nature? Answer 3: Humans all over the world had been nomadic hunters for almost 2 million years. During this time physical and cultural developments allowed humans to form communities. In these communities people gradually learned to manipulate nature in favor
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EXAM I VOCABULARY Paleolithic and Neolithic Vocabulary to Know: * Paleolithic – 40‚000-8‚000 BC Old Stone Age‚ mankind produced * Neolithic – New Stone Age 1. Comes about at different times at different locations due to ice age ending unevenly 1. Development of organized system of agriculture (replacing hunting gathering community) 1. Domestication of animals 1. Permanent architecture (year round settlements) * Iconography – pictoral representations * sculpture
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food-gathering people who ate wild vegetables‚ meat‚ wild edible plants‚ and insects to survive 4. Agricultural Revolutions: A series of separate transformations that occurred when agriculture arose independently in many different places around the world. 5. Megaliths: A complex of stone structures in Egypt that included burial chambers‚ a calendar circle‚ and pairs of vertical stones that frame the sun on the summer solstice. 6. Sumerians: The people who lived in Mesopotamia at the start of the
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During the post-classical time period‚ both the Umayyad and Mongol empires rose to the height of their power through many similarities and differences. For example‚ both dynasties expanded by militaristic advances‚ but a single man was responsible for the rise of the Mongols and they also supported all faiths unlike the Umayyad. The Mongol founder‚ Genghis Khan‚ conquered surrounding nomadic tribes and brought them under his rule through extensive military conquest. Over the entire rise of the
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Instructions for AP BIOLOGY Investigation 12-Fruit Fly Behavior *We will be using Roly-polies (Armadillidium vulgare) to study animal behavior instead of fruit flies. They are members of a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda that are able to roll into a ball. When writing up this lab‚ substitute A. vulgare or “roly-poly” or “pillbug” for Drosophila melanogaster throughout. **You still have to know the basics of fruit fly behavior‚ so be sure to read the lab carefully and save the lab handout
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official capital of the Ming Dynasty during his reign. * Zhu’s government in Nanjing became famous for good governance and the city attracted vast numbers of people fleeing from other more lawless regions. * Zhu proclaimed himself Emperor of China in 1368. His capital city remained in Nanjing and "Hongwu" was adopted as his regal title. * Hongwu redid the traditional Confucian examination system. The potential state officials were selected from‚ based on merit and their knowledge of literature
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for these two civilizations. Egypt was not in total isolation‚ but was as self-contained as possible. Unlike Egypt‚ Mesopotamia was more focused on expanding as far as they could. Egyptian leaders liked to think of their civilization as their own world. Emperors of Mesopotamia focused on expanding their territory toward the Middle East. Egypt had a few interactions here and there along the Nile‚ but other than that‚ they preferred to stay within its borders. They traded on the southern part of the
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concepts. Used for official & monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. Mandate of Heaven: Chinese religion & political ideology developed by the Zhou‚ according to which it was the prerogative of Heaven‚ the chief deity‚ to grant power to the ruler of China & to take away the power of the ruler failed to conduct himself justly & in the best interest of his subjects. Daoism: Chinese school of thought‚ originating in the Warring State Period with Laozi (604-531 B.C.E) Iron Age: Historians’ term for the
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Advanced Placement World History Course Syllabus 2012-2013 Ms. Rebecca Layton Friendly High School Fort Washington‚ MD 20744 301-449-4900 Rebecca.layton@pgcps.org Course Description: The Advanced Placement World History (APWH) course is an intensive‚ year long‚ examination of global history from the period of 8000 B.C.E. to the present. The purpose of APWH is to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts‚ in interaction
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DBQ During the time span of 1776-1852‚ the opposition of slavery grew in the United States. There were many reasons for this to happen for example‚ the Fugitive Slave Laws were passed. Some people tried to fight slavery by holding groups or by having an escape route for slaves. However there were some people that saw slavery as no problem because of their belief and even states had slavery debates. In 1793 congress passed the Fugitive Slave Laws. This law allowed the return of slaves that escaped
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