Chapter 8-9 Vocabulary

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Chapter 8-9 Vocabulary

• Push Pull Factors conditions which drive people
  to leave their homes
• Reasons for Migration
• Lack of Farmland/Agriculture
• Disease
• Famine
• War

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Jewish Diaspora

• the FORCED dispersion (scattering) of Jewish
  population throughout the Empire
• All the way from the Persian Gulf on the east to
  Spain on the west.
• It's an extensive diffusion of the Jewish
  population throughout the Roman

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Mesoamerica

• The area which stretches from central Mexico to
  Northern Honduras
• Agriculture had a major impact on these early
  civilizations
• Population growth
• Social class emergence
• Highly developed societies

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Beringia

• A land bridge which once connected Asia and North
  America