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What was Earth’s early atmosphere like? It contained little or no oxygen What does Miller and Urey’s experiment tell us about the organic compounds needed for life? It could have…

Old Regime the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution. Estates one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution-the First Estate…

Humanism An intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics Humanities Study of subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, that were…

Covenant Community A covenant community is a religious group whose members bind themselves to one another and to the group by a solemn agreement called a covenant Direct Democracy Form…

monsoon Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changingocean waters. These…

Alfred Thayer Mahan a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before…

Lincoln’s Plan Also known as 10% plan, it was the most lenient of all reconstruction plans, with the objective of getting the Southern states back in as quickly as possible…

S Social P Politicial I Interactions between humans and the environment C Cultural E Economic Social Gender roles Social Family Social Race/Ethnicity Social Social Class Political State-building Political Expansion, and…

Thomas Malthus Author of Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) who claimed that population grows at an exponential rate while food production increases arithmetically, and thereby that, eventually, population…

What was the average age of a Civil War soldier? 26 What were the age limits of a Civil War soldier 18 and 29 T/F: Many soldiers were volunteers T…

Olmecs – 1200-400 BC – A member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and Western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico – Established what was probably the…

desist to spontaneously stop commiting crime developmental theories theories that attempt to explan the ‘natural history’ of a criminal carrer: its onset, the course it follows and its termination life…

Continental Congress the legislative assembly composed of delegates(well educated aristocrats) from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed…

Belize shares a border with Mexico? True Puerto Rico is touched by both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. True Deep within the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala lie…

The principle of crosscutting relationships states that a disrupted pattern is older than the cause of disruption. True By the principle of____, the surface feature known as the Grand Canyon…

Participants who are involved after the commission of a crime are guilty of a? Separate, less serious offense. Criminal liability is imposed on accomplices and accessories because they? Participated in…

Columbian Exchange The global transfer of living things; began with Columbus’ first voyage Jamestown Virginia Company’s settlement; named for their king Puritans Religious group that felt the church had kept…

The ________ period was a time of major extinctions, including 75 percent of amphibian families. Permian During the early Paleozoic era, South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India, and perhaps China…

Based on the information provided by this map, where did Abraham’s journey originate? answer : Mesopotamia People do not often create records for the benefit of historians. They produce them…

1895 -1908 “early cinema” Rapid development and experimentation in filmaking before hollywood era. In U.S, massive industrialization attracted large numbers of immigrants & rural americans to urban centers where movie…