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Chapter three key terms in text by HJ Blij/Alexander Murphy

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Agricultural Revolution   The revolutionary transformation of agricultural practices, systems, and productions.  
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Late Cenozoic Age   The last great ice age that ended 10,000 years ago; spanned the entire Pleistocene epoch.  
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Holocene epoch   The most recent 12,000 years of Earth's history; the warm phase that followed the latest advance of the ice.  
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Glaciers   Sheets of ice  
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Interglaciations   An interglacial period; sustained warming phase between glacial advances during an ice age.  
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Paleolithic Period   The Old Stone Age, the earliest period of human development; the earliest and longest stage of the Stone Age.  
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Stone Age   The period marking when simple stone tools were made and fire was used.  
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Global Warming   an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)  
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Domestication (Animal/Plant)   The transformation of a wild animal or wild plant into a domesticated animal or a cultivated crop to gain control over food production.  
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Fertile Crescent   The crescent-shaped zone of productive lands extending from near southeastern Mediterranean coast through Lebanon and Syria to the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia; Where the First Agricultural Revolution occurred.  
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Social Stratification   A set of social data or layers.  
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The Ziggurat   Tower of the great temple; the tallest structure in Mesopotamia at the time from 4100 B.P.  
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Deglaciation   The withdrawal of an ice sheet from an area.  
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Climatic Region   A region experiencing a fairly uniform climate according to specific criteria.  
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