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1. What defines absolute location?
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3. Homo Sapiens first emerged on what continent? How many years ago?
4. Early hunter-gatherers depended on wild plants and animal life and were sometimes forced to migrate to
new locations for food. This made them what type of people?
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How has the movement of people been significant to world history?
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What were the key characteristics of societies of the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)?
What were the major characteristics of the Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)?
What is carbon dating?
What site in England was begun in the Neolithic Age but finished in the Bronze Age?
9. Why were river valleys important to the development civilization?
10. What civilization emerged in the Nile River Valley and Delta?
11. The valleys of what two rivers served as the home to Mesopotamian civilization?
12. Indian civilization first emerged in what river valley?
13. Chinese civilization first emerged in what river valley?
14. Where did the Phoenicians settle?
15. What is a city-state?