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| Allows scientists to determine the ages of rock strata | Radiometric dating |
| Allows scientists to determine the ages of rock strata | Radiometric dating |
| First posited by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener | Continental drift |
| Wegener's theory on continental drift is today considered as two aspects of the wider phenomenon known as | Plate tectonics |
| Which means "southern ape from the afar" | Australopithecus afarensis |
| Refers to human family | Hominid |
| Literally means "erect man" | Homo erectus |
| Man the wise; thinking man | Homo sapiens |
| The earliest ancestors of modern humans | Paleolithic Age |
| The discovery of the secrets of agriculture / The most significant landmark of __ is the Agricultural revolution. | Neolithic Age |
| Process by which cultural ideas spread to different groups of people and to different places.S | Cultural diffusion |
| The transition from stone implements to the use of metals was pivotal to growth of civilizations | Metal Age |
| Meaning "the year of our Lord" | Anno Domini |
| Is the study of the patterns and processes of human (built) and environmental (natural) landscapes | Geography |
| That studies the natural features of the earth | Physical Geography |
| Refers to the exact point where a place is | Absolute location |
| Provides a pinpoint accuracy in locating a specific place | Global Positioning System (GPS) |
| That describes and analyzes how humans adapt to their environment | Human Environment Interaction |
| Is an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society | Civilization |
| Meaning "the land between two rivers" | Mesopotamia |
| Gods whose capable of human passions and weaknesses. | Anthropomorphic |
| The struggle of the king to escape death is recounted in the dangerous journey he made to find Utnapishtun | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| Meaning "big man" | Lugal |
| A copy of which was found at Susa, the capital of ancient Elam | Code of Hammurabi |
| Meaning wedge | Cuneus |
| It was based on the belief of one God | Monotheism |
| At 180 degrees longitude as its endpoint | International Date Line (IDL) |
| Supposedly written by Zoroaster himself because the sacred book of the followers of his faith | Zend Avesta |
| Region | The concept of _ is anchored on grouping of places based on common characteristics. |
| Group of people who share a common culture | Ethnic group |
| The history of ancient egypt | 2,500 years ago |
| The greek historian who travelled to egypt in an attempt to discover the source of the nile | Herodotus |
| Egypt was the ___ | The gift of the nile |
| Was central to egyptian life | Religion |
| Golden one | Hathor |
| Falcon god | Horus |
| Wife of Osiris | Isis |
| Creator god | Khnum |
| Goddess of truth | Ma'at |
| Moon god | Khons |
| A war god | Montu |
| War goddess | Mut |
| Goddess of sais | Neith |
| The god of the dead | Osiris |
| Lion headed goddess | Sekhmet |
| Crocodile god | Sobek |
| God of wisdom | Thoth |
| Cobra goddess | Wadjet |
| Underworld | Tuat |
| Gov't of ancient egypt / form of gov't wherein the ruler is believed to be god or of divine virgin | Theocracy |
| The first cataract of the nile | Upper egypt |
| Delta region north | Lower egypt |