Study sets matching "world cultures"
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Classes
Users
Culture
Government
Economics
History
the study of people's customs, laws, and art
the study of people and groups that make laws, enforce laws, a…
the study of how people make money
record of the past
Culture
the study of people's customs, laws, and art
Government
the study of people and groups that make laws, enforce laws, a…
peninsula
river mouth
upstream
downstream
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out i…
The place where a river empties into another body of water
direction opposite the flow of a river; toward the source of a…
direction in which a river or stream flows from its source to…
peninsula
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out i…
river mouth
The place where a river empties into another body of water
Amritsar
Manchuria
Balfour Declaration
Poland
Site of a 1921 attack in which 300-1000 Indians were killed by…
area Japan took over in 1931
1917 Document that declared Britain's intent to create a Jewis…
Germany invaded this country on September 1, 1939 - effectivel…
Amritsar
Site of a 1921 attack in which 300-1000 Indians were killed by…
Manchuria
area Japan took over in 1931
Cold War
European Union
GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Literacy
A time of non-violent conflict between the United States and t…
An economic and political organization in Europe with 28 membe…
The value of all the goods and production in an economy for a…
The ability to read and write; countries generally measure it…
Cold War
A time of non-violent conflict between the United States and t…
European Union
An economic and political organization in Europe with 28 membe…
culture
cultural landscape
civilization
institution
the way of life of a people, including their beliefs and pract…
the parts of a people's environment that they have shaped and…
advanced culture with cities and a system of writing
custom or organization with social, educational, or religious…
culture
the way of life of a people, including their beliefs and pract…
cultural landscape
the parts of a people's environment that they have shaped and…
Polytheism
Hinduism
Sikhism
Diwali
Belief in many gods and goddesses
Oldest polytheistic religion in the world that is the common r…
Monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by…
Religious festival of lights in Hinduism commonly associated w…
Polytheism
Belief in many gods and goddesses
Hinduism
Oldest polytheistic religion in the world that is the common r…
Democracy
Monarchy
Totalitarianism
Theocracy
When the government involves the citizens VOTING.
A king or queen rules.
One leader who takes power and controls by force. Makes all de…
The government is built upon the ideas of a particular religio…
Democracy
When the government involves the citizens VOTING.
Monarchy
A king or queen rules.
Republic
Renewable Resource
Non-Renewable Resource
Legacy
a country that is governed by elected representatives and by a…
A resource that can be replenished
A resource that cannot be replenished
Anything handed down from the past
Republic
a country that is governed by elected representatives and by a…
Renewable Resource
A resource that can be replenished
Desertificación---Proceso de propagació…
La agricultura de subsistencia---Ocurre…
Segregación racial---Separación legaliz…
Genocidio---Matanza sistemática de un g…
Desertification---Process of the spreading of a desert or an a…
Subsistence Farming---Occurs where people raise enough food to…
Apartheid---Legalized separation of races in South Africa that…
Genocide---Systematic killing of an ethnic or religious group,…
Desertificación---Proceso de propagació…
Desertification---Process of the spreading of a desert or an a…
La agricultura de subsistencia---Ocurre…
Subsistence Farming---Occurs where people raise enough food to…
Colonization
Censorship
Human Rights
Unicameral
Process by which a country takes control of land (a colony) an…
Suppression (elimination) of speech or other forms of public c…
Fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an…
One-house legislature
Colonization
Process by which a country takes control of land (a colony) an…
Censorship
Suppression (elimination) of speech or other forms of public c…
Artifacts/Ecofacts
Culture
Mary Leakey
Lucy
Human-made objects, such as tools and jewelry.
A people's unique way of life
British anthropologist who discovered prehistoric footprints i…
The first human who left remains of her bones; she lived aroun…
Artifacts/Ecofacts
Human-made objects, such as tools and jewelry.
Culture
A people's unique way of life
agriculture
Cash crops
climate
culture
The process of farming and growing crops.
Crops that are grown to sell for money
The average weather of a place over many years.
The way of Life... (dress, language, religion)
agriculture
The process of farming and growing crops.
Cash crops
Crops that are grown to sell for money
70 A.D.
636 A.D.
1800's
1918
romans conquered palestine and jews were kicked out of the area
arab migration arabs began to move into the area
zionism movement by european jews to return to their homeland
WW1 ends Britain got control of palestine
70 A.D.
romans conquered palestine and jews were kicked out of the area
636 A.D.
arab migration arabs began to move into the area
Archipelago
Gulf
Harbor
hill
A group of islands... Examples: Philippine Islands, Malay Archipe…
Larger than a bay; extends into a shoreline... Examples: Gulf of…
a sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor saf…
high land with sloping sides and rounded summit; smaller than…
Archipelago
A group of islands... Examples: Philippine Islands, Malay Archipe…
Gulf
Larger than a bay; extends into a shoreline... Examples: Gulf of…
State
Nation
Democracy
Monarchy
Area with its own government and legislature and control over…
Group of people with a common culture living in a territory, w…
Government where the people vote and decide how the country is…
Government with a ruling family (Kings & Queens) have politica…
State
Area with its own government and legislature and control over…
Nation
Group of people with a common culture living in a territory, w…
Hippocrates
Thales
Pythagoras
Euclid
Father of modern medicine and the Oath of Medical Ethics
Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated…
Greek mathematician responsible for the Pythagorean Theorem wh…
Greek mathematician. Considered to be the father of modern geo…
Hippocrates
Father of modern medicine and the Oath of Medical Ethics
Thales
Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated…
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Point of View
Bias
descriptions of an event by... someone who witnessed or lived... thr…
a source created by someone who... was not present at an event bu…
the ideas held by a person or a... group that cause them to take…
an unreasoned, emotional... judgment about people and events... tha…
Primary Source
descriptions of an event by... someone who witnessed or lived... thr…
Secondary Source
a source created by someone who... was not present at an event bu…
The study of the physical features of t…
Ethnicity, traditions, clothing, food,…
Location
Longitude
What is Geography?
What is Culture?
a specific place on Earth
measure East and West, also called Meridians, RUN NORTH TO SOU…
The study of the physical features of t…
What is Geography?
Ethnicity, traditions, clothing, food,…
What is Culture?
glaciation
mountains
plains
Loess
the process in which glaciers formed and spread, rounded Europ…
The Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Carpathians are in southern Eu…
The Northern European and The Great Hungarian-extends from Hun…
rich soil left by glaciers, covers the southern edge.
glaciation
the process in which glaciers formed and spread, rounded Europ…
mountains
The Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Carpathians are in southern Eu…
Islam
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
Christianity
the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as…
Belief in one god
Belief in many gods
A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Ol…
Islam
the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as…
Monotheistic
Belief in one god