5 theams Flashcards

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What is absolute location

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A place that you say is a definite location. For example: The USA is right there.

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What is relative location.

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A location relative something else.

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What is “place”

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Place describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.

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Human environment interaction.

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How humans interact and adapt with there environment. For example: Humans build houses in blank field.

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Movement

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How humans move or migrate around the planet. For example: Humans migrate around the planet.

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Formal regoin

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Formal regions are those that are designated by official boundaries. For example: A city.

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Functional regoin

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Are served by Business and economic activities.

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Vernacular regoin

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Using language or custom native to the region.

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What is civilization

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highly developed culture

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What is city state

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A city and it’s surrounding country side.

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What is polytheism

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belife in more than one god

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What is theocracy

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a form of government in Witch one individual ruled as both religious leader and king

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What is cuneiform

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a sumariun writing using wedge shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets

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What is empire

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A group of land ruled by on ruler

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What is delta

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area formed by soil deposite located at the moulth of a river

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What is Pharaoh

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Ruler of ancient Egypt

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What is pyramid

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stone stucture that served as a tomb or monument

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What is hieroglyphics

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monumentform of writing that uses shapes and symbols

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What is papyrus

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Egyptian paper

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Autocracy

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Is a government were one personhas all thr power

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Monarchy

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A king or queen rules a country monarchy it usaly comes to power throgh a family line.In old time they held all the power. Now they share the power.

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Dictatorship

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A type of government were has absolute power over citizens lifes.

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Representative democracy

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Democracy were citizens vote to and elect leaders to represent thre rights.

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Direct democracy

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There are no representitives. Citizens are involved in the day to day governing in the couu not practical today.

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Oligarchy
Greek word that means rules by a few. Often one political party one race or one class
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Junta
A small group of people that usaly military officers that after taking it by force.
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Anarchy
Nobody in control or everyone is.A state before government is created. A transition to get a new form of government.
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Issue
Is not an event-is ongoing -has long term effect-is somthin we can solve - two or more ideas
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Public policy
A definite course or method of action desighned to meet the needs or goals of everyone
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Insensitive
Rewards for behavior
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Disincentive
Punishment for behavior
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Scarcity
Limited recources, unlimited wants
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Choice
Choosing is refusing, scarcity is causes us to choose(50$) choices your choice is what others would refuse.
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Rational choice
Choosing is refusing in own intrest
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Value
Based on taste and prefrences. The greater supply. The lower price. Buyer willingness to pay.
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Cost
Highest value alternative The value of the next best choice
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Price
Willingness of buyers and ability of the buyer to purchase a product.
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Cost/benifit anyalisis
Compare Benifits generated by an activity with its opportunity cost of production. The rule is benifets Exeed cost than the activity is effective and should be undertaken
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Frontier line
The land between civilization and wilderness
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North west terriotory
The land north of the Ohio river and was put into five states
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Amendment
Amendment – A change or a addition to a legal document. This is why the constitution is called “Living Document”. Constitution has 27 amendments
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Amendment5
Amendment 5: Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy.
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Amendment6
Amendment 6: Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury
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Amendment7
Amendment 7: Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.
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Amendment8
Amendment 8: Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishments and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.
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Amendment9
Amendment 9: Assures the recognition of those rights that people may have but are not listed here.
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Amendment10
Amendment 10: Provides that the powers that are not given to the United States nor prohibited by the constitution are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.
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Constitutional convention
Constitutional Convention- The meeting of state delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 that resulted in the writing of the Constitution.
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New Jersey plan
New Jersey Plan – a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
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Virginia plan
Virginia Plan – a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
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Federalist
Federalist- A person who favored the plan of government created by the Constitution.
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Anti-federalist
Anti-Federalist- A person who opposed ratification of the Constitution.
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armies meet on a battle field. 101. Triangular Trade- A trade route connecting three different places, such as, English Colonies, England, and Africa. Critical for the slave trade. Many trading companies in the north made large amounts of money selling slaves to the south after the Treaty of Paris. 102.Underground Railroad- Escape routes and hiding places that moved escaped slaves north. Harriet Tubman famous for running safe houses. 103. Dred Scott Case- The 1857 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and that congress couldn’t forbid slavery in the territories. Slavery legal everywhere, no more “Free & Slave” states Slavery was guaranteed by Constitution in the US 104. First Battle Bull Run- The first major battle of the civil war, won by the confederates in 1862. 105. Richmond, Virginia– Capital of the Confederate States of America. The capital was moved to Montgomery, Alabama during the last year of the war 106. Platform- A statement of goals, and principles of a group, especially a political party. (i.e. Abraham Lincoln wants to contain slavery where it exists) Border State – Around the Civil war, a state between the North and the South (i.e. Missouri, Kentucky) 107. Confederate States of America- A nation formed by eleven southern states in 1861. South Carolina was the first to leave Union. This was to be the name of the new country. A new county based on slavery. 108. Richmond, Virginia– Capital of the Confederate States of America. The capital was moved to Montgomery, Alabama during the last year of the war 109. Border State – Around the Civil war, a state between the North and the South (i.e. Missouri, Kentucky) 110. Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederate States of America.
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