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Trappers and explorers in the rocky mountains Mountain men Why did Marcus and Narcissa Whitman travel the Oregon Trail? The Whitmans moved to Oregon to convert Native American tribes to…

Daoism Follow the way, harmony with nature, no concept of God Laozi Founder of Daoism Text/ Practices Simple life, don’t impose change, go with the flow, be happy, concentrate on…

Overfarming Harvesting too much to the point of diminishing returns Neolithic Revolution A set of dramatic changes in how people lived based on the development of agriculture, characterized by developments…

Know about the Versailles Treaty Nazis built up their army even though it was a rejection Know about Mussolini’s fascist government Fascist ended political feuding in government Know about Stalin’s…

agriculture the deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber bipedalism the ability to walk upright on two legs Catal Hayuk In Southern Turkey. Houses…

When we refer to someone’s intelligence quotient as if it were fixed and objectively real trait such as height, we commit a reasoning error called reification The ability to learn…

A proper greeting: 1) uses a friendly tone 2) addresses both yourself and the patient by name 3) States your reason for being there The narrowing and broadening of scope…

ellis island an island where immigration stations were there in new york harbor angel island an island where primarily asians and chinese would go melting pot a mizture of ppl…

George Washington Saved his army from destruction, President of the Constitutional Convention, President of the US Patrick Henry “Give me liberty of give me death!” Anti-Federalist James Madison “Father of…

Abolish to do away with; put an end to Abolitionist a person who wanted to end slavery Amend To alter, Modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from; to change…

Imperialism A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. Social Darwinism The application of ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest”…

King Henry VIII king of Englad; broke with Roman church in 1530s, launching English Protestant Reformation; led to battle between Catholics and Protestants in England Queen Elizabeth queen of England…

Venus of Willendorf 27,000 B.C. Paleolithic limestone Venus of Laussel 23,000 B.C. Paleolithic limestone Cave of Lascaux 14,000 B.C. Paleolithic Lascaux, France Stonehenge 2000 B.C. Neolithic Salisbury Plain, England Warka…

progressive movement aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices- gave people control in goverment Florence Kelley advocate for improving the lives of women & children Prohibition banning of alcoholic…

B Which of the following is an example of timber architecture? a. widdle and daub b. wattle and daub c. riggle and daub d. none of these C Of what…

elector seven leading German princes Ferdinand the Catholic Hapsburg king of Bohemia who sought to suppress Protestants and to assert royal power over nobles mercenary soldier for hire depopulation reduction…

Homefront The places where civilians are active when their country is at war. Atomic Bomb A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei…

Urbanization Rapid growth of cities in the northeast and Midwest due to industrialism. Most of the new immigrants were moving to the cities due to the development of factories. Brooklyn…

The crisis of the early third century was precipitated by the retreat from the eastern frontier and violent tendencies of Marcus Aurelius’s son, Commodus When the emperor died in 192…

Philip II The leader of Macedonia Macedonia The kingdom north of Greece made of mountain villages Alexander the Great The son of Philip II and student of Aristotle who conquered…