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| Mr.help | The five themes of geography (movement, region, human-environment interaction, location, place) |
| Symbols | Characters, letters, or graphics on a map that represent an object in the real world. |
| Legend or Key | A visual explanation of the symbols used on the map |
| Labels | A word or short phrase to describe something on a map |
| Compass | A tool used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west). |
| Latitude | Horizontal mapping lines on a map. |
| Longitude | Vertical mapping lines on a map. |
| Title | A clearly visible part of the map that explains the information you will find. It will also tell the location and purpose. |
| Geography | Geography is the study of the earth, its land, its people, and its environments. |
| Artifact | An object made by a human being. |
| Primary Source | Different kinds of records and artifacts based on first person accounts. |
| Secondary Source | Things or information created by using original sources for information |
| Hunting-gathering | Surviving by hunting wild animals, fishing, and gathering wild fruits, berries, nuts, and vegetables. |
| Natural Resources | Something that is found in nature and can be used by people. Some examples include light, air, water, plants, animals, and soil. |
| Nomadic | A way of life with no permanent home. These people were wandering from place to place for resources. |
| Migration | To move from one region into another |
| Paleolithic | Early phase of the Stone Age which continued until about 8000 B.C. Hunting and gathering was the way of life. |
| Neolithic | Humans stopped being hunter gatherers and settled down to create crops, tame animals and improve tools. This time was the last part of the Stone age. |
| Civilization | How society organizes and grows into a more advanced way of life. Cities Government Religions Social Structure Writing |
| Irrigation | A system used to supply water to land or crops to help them grow. |
| Terracing | Cutting flat areas out of a hilly or mountainous landscape in order to grow crops. |
| Chinampa | Method of farming that used small, rectangular islands that were created on lakes to grow crops. |
| City-State | A type of small independent country. |
| Cradle of Civilization | Places where communities first began to grow around rivers. |
| Cuneiform | A type of picture writing on clay tablets that was used for information and records. |
| Mesopotamia | A Greek word meaning 'between the rivers'. The rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates which flow through modern Iraq. |
| Ziggurat | A stone temple where early people thought Gods lived. |
| Fertile Crescent | An area known as the first "Cradle of Civilization". It curves like a quarter-moon shape. The soil was perfect for growing crops because it was near the river. |
| Fertile | Able to help something grow. |
| Nile River | An African river that is known to be the longest in the world. |
| River Valley Civilization | A civilization growing near the river. |
| Silt | Fine pieces of earth, clay, or sand that eventually settle out of water. |
| Delta | A triangle of sand and soil at the mouth of some large rivers. |
| Canals | A body of water made by humans for boat transportation or for bringing water to crops. |
| Monarchy | A government ruled by a monarch such as a king or queen. |
| Theocracy | A government ruled by a priest. |
| Oligarchy | A small group of people are in charge of the government. |
| Autocracy | A government where one person has all of the power. |
| Anarchy | A society where no one is in charge and there is complete freedom. |
| Direct democracy | People decide on laws without someone to represent them. |
| Indirect democracy (republic) | System of government in which the people control the government through officials they have elected. Most democracies are set up this way. |
| Dictatorship | A government that is setup with a single leader who has complete control over all decisions. |
| Tribal Government | Tribes have the power to govern themselves. |
| Hierarchy | A system or organization in which people or groups are placed in order based on status or importance. |
| Stratification | Placing something into order by groups. |
| Hammurabi’s Code | One of the first written records of a code of law by the Babylonians. There were 282 laws that explained the rules and consequences if they were not followed. |
| Monotheistic | The belief in one God. |
| Polytheistic | The belief of many Gods. |
| Noble | A person belonging to a class of people with a high rank or title |
| Domestication | To tame or train a plant or animal. |
| Agriculture | the science and work of raising crops and farm animals; farming. |
| Physical Features | Land forms of a place that make up its natural environment. |
| Class system | A system used in the United States that has an upper, middle, and lower level. Income and education are some of the main factors used to determine status. |
| Caste system | A system used in Ancient India where social structure is determined by birth. There were four main statuses and one group that was not considered a part of the system (Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras and the Untouchables). |
| Patrilineal | Looking at history through the families of fathers. |
| Matrilineal | Looking at history through the families of mothers. |
| Hinduism | One of the world’s oldest religions that started in the Indus Valley. This belief system focuses on dharma (doing respectable things), kharma (the law of cause and effect), and samsara (the cycle of reincarnation). |
| Vedas | The most ancient Hindu scriptures that were written in Sanskrit. It is similar to the Bible. |
| Reincarnation | The belief that after you die, you return to earth again as a human or an animal. To stop repeating the cycle, you must be free from all negative desires. |
| Buddhism | Developed by Buddha (Siddhartha Gautam). Teaches people how to end their suffering by cutting out greed, hatred and ignorance. |
| Four Noble Truths | Some of Buddha’s teachings that explain suffering in life and how to find solutions. |
| Eightfold Path | Is also known as the Middle Path or Middle Way in Buddhism. It is the path to achieve spiritual enlightenment in order to solve any type of suffering. It requires a person to always do, say and think the correct things. |
| Karma |
The principle that one's actions determine one's future in this life
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| Samsara | The process of reincarnation which is the endless cycle of every soul's birth, death, and rebirth. |
| Nirvana | This happens after Enlightenment. It is a state of complete harmony, peace, or joy in both thoughts and actions. Followers work their whole life to achieve this experience or state or mind. |
| Dynasty | A family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family. |
| Mandate of Heaven | The idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods. |
| Dynastic Cycle | The cycle in Ancient China when a new family, given the Mandate of Heaven, takes charge to unite everyone. Eventually the community begins to have several problems and a new family takes charge. |
| Natural resource | Materials that are found in nature and that can be used by people in many ways. They can be renewable and non-renewable |
| Human resource | Any source of help or support from people who can be used for labor and ideas.They can used to do some type of job, complete a task, or create ideas. |
| Capital resource | Goods made and used to create other goods and services. |
| Renewable resources | A resource which can be used repeatedly and replaced naturally |
| Non-renewable resource | A resource that does not renew itself quickly. |
| Empire | A group of nations or peoples under one ruler or government |
| Caravan | A group of people traveling together. |
| Bartering | To trade services or things for other services or things without using money. |
| Catalan Atlas | The most important map of the medieval period which was drawn and written in 1375. Mansa Musa was drawn with a gold crown, nugget and sceptre. |
| Mansa Musa | An emperor of the West African Kingdom of Mali. He built Mali into one of the largest empires in the world and made Timbuktu a great African city of trade and learning. |
| Historical Perspective | The idea that people have different ways of thinking about things that happened in the past. When describing history, it is known and told from the opinions of a person’s beliefs, ideas and experiences. |
| Hajj | An annual Islamic journey to Mecca, the most holy city of the Muslims. This trip should be completed at least once in a lifetime. Mansa Musa's hajj, and especially his gold, caught the attention of both the Islamic and Christian worlds. |
| Quran | The Islamic sacred book. It is similar to the Bible in Christianity. It is also spelled Koran. |
| Hijab | The cloth that covers the head, hair, and neck of Muslim women, worn to honor their religion. |
| Mecca | Islam’s holiest city located in a desert valley in western Saudi Arabia. It’s the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the faith of Islam. |
| Islam | A religion founded by Muhammad. It began in Arabia known as the Middle East. Its holy book is called the Koran or Quran |
| Muslim | A person who follows the religion of Islam or anything having to do with this system of beliefs. |
| Muhammad | An Arab religious leader and the person who started Islam. |
| Immigrate | To come to live permanently in a country where one was not born. |
| Emigrate | To leave one country or region in order to settle in another. |
| Bantu migration | The Bantu-speaking peoples migrated from Western Africa spreading out across all of the southern half of the African continent. |
| Caliph | A spiritual and political leader in some Muslim countries. |
| Caliphate | The area of land or time period that is ruled by a caliph. |
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