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A decade is a period of time that lasts _______ years.
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The calendar we use today is called the ______ calendar.
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A decade is a period of time that lasts _______ years.
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The calendar we use today is called the ______ calendar.
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The Gregorian calendar begins counting years with the founding of Rome.
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A leap year is a year that has _________.
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The letters A.D. stand for the words anno domini and mean "in the year of our Lord."
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A multilevel time line is ________.
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The letters A.D. stand for the words anno domini and mean "in the love of our Lord."
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A paleontologist looks for clues to the past by studying __________.
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An anthropologist is mostly concerned with studying fossils.
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Which is an example of an artifact?
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Which is an example of an artifact?
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An archaeologist studies the past by looking at what people left behind.
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An archaeologist studies the past by looking at what people tell in stories today.
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A group of 100 years is known as a(n)
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The Gregorian calendar
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The study of human culture and how it develops over time is called
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The most important fact that helped scientists connect modern humans to their ancient ancestors regarding the discovery of the skeleton “Lucy” in Africa in 1974 was that it
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Historians can learn about ancient civilizations by studying items such as weapons, tools, and pottery, which are called
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The first historical era, more that 5,500 years ago, is called _________________ and refers to a time before people developed writing.
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In the Gregorian calendar, events are dated either before or after the birth of ___________.
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Some early calendars developed by the Chinese, Egyptians, and Hebrews, were based on the cycles of the ____________.
