History/Geography
Early Humans
Mesopotamia
Mini Units: Israelites & Kush & Axum
Egypt
India
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100
This helps us understand history and is a list of events in chronological order.
What is a Timeline
100
What does the the "O" in Pale"O"lithic stand for?
What is the Old Stone Age
100
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What are the two rivers of Mesopotamia in the fertile crescent?
100
What the Israelites were known as.
What is the Jews and the Hebrews ?
100
This is known as the "lifeblood" of ancient Egypt, due to its importance to survival.
What is the Nile River?
100
Name the social structure system inside ancient India
What were the Varnas, which became the Caste system.?
100
Describe the difference between monotheism and polytheism.
Monotheism is the belief in one god compared to polytheism is the belief in multiple gods.
200
ONE example of a primary source
What are: Photographs, Maps, Diary Entries (anything that is used as a first hand evidence)
200
Name the SIX characteristics of a civilization.
What is Geography, Social Structure, Government, Religion, Writing and the Arts, and Technology & Achievements.
200
Irrigation
What is a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams?
200
The First Kingdom located in the Southern Part of Upper Egypt.
What is the Kush or Nubia Kingdom?
200
Are the ancient Egyptians monotheistic or polytheistic?
What is polytheistic.
200
What natural barrier protects India? (NAME IT)
What is the Himalaya Mountain Range.
200
Describe the difference between a surplus and a scarcity.
What is a surplus means you have an excess amount of food and a scarcity means you do not have enough food.
300
Name all SEVEN continents.
What is: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antartica.
300
Describe nomads, include things they do NOT have AND how they get their food.
What is a group of people who travel in groups from place to place. They do NOT have a permanent shelters and they hunt and gather to get ALL their food.
300
Due to these TWO Mesopotamian inventions the food supply increased drastically.
What is irrigation and the plow.
300
This is the sacred text of the Israelites.
What is the Hebrew bible?
300
Define a Pharaoh and name ONE from ancient Egypt.
What is the ruler of ancient Egypt and any that we have talked about.
300
How many monsoons does India have? Name and describe them.
What is two, the summer monsoon brings in warm wet air from the Arabian Se and the winter monsoon brings in cold, dry air from the Himalayas.
300
Name the FOUR great river Vally civilizations that developed at the beginning of the Bronze Age.
What is Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China.
400
Describe cultural diffusion AND give an example of cultural diffusion.
What is the set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by the members of a group. An example would be McDonalds.
400
Describe the agricultural revolution and what age it occurred in.
What is the time when humans began farming and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering AND during the Neolithic Age.
400
To honor their gods the Mesopotamia's built this pyramid shaped structure.
What is a ziggurat.
400
Why are both Moses and Abraham important to the Israelites religion?
What is Moses parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments from God and Abraham is the founder of Judaism.
400
Name THREE achievements from the ancient Egyptians.
What is... the pyramids, a calendar, medical skills (sew cuts and set broken bones), the first medical book, fractions and a number system based on 10.
400
Name the the TWO most well-known Hindu epics and describe them.
What is the Mahabrahta: a religious epic and Ramyana: a romance epic
400
Sanskrit, Cuneiform, and Hieroglyphics area all example of which characteristic of civilization?
What is writing and the arts.
500
Using the map below, answer all the following questions:
-What is the difference between cardinal directions and intermediate directions.
-What direction would you travel to get to Washington from Oklahoma?
What is:
-Cardinal directions include: North, South, East, West. Intermediate directions include: Northeast, Southeast, Northwest and Southwest.
-Northwest
500
Give an example of each of the six characteristics of civilization.
What is: Geography: rivers, mountains, etc. Government: a monarch. Social Structure: caste system, Religion: any that we've talked about. Writing and the Arts: record keeping. Technology and Achievements: any that we've talked about.
500
Name THREE important people inside of Mesopotamia AND what they did.
What is Gilgamesh, Sargon, Hammurabi, Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus the Great.
500
The king who is responsible for making Christianity the official religion of Axum.
Who is King Ezana?
500
Ancient Egypt's writing system , term for those trained to write, and what the Egyptians grew/wrote on.
What are.... hieroglyphics, scribes and papyrus?
500
Name the two religions originated in ancient India and briefly describe both.
What is Hinduism and Buddhism.... listen to each students responce.
500
What does A.D, C.E, B.c, and B.C.E stand for on a timeline?
What is Anno Domini (in the year of our lord), common era, before christ and before common era.