Map/Geography
A symbol on a the map that shows directional points.
What is a compass rose?
A wedge-shaped writing system used to record trade, government taxes, and official decrees
What is cuneiform?
The religious belief in and worship of many different gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
Major river in the US that flows south toward the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Mississippi River?
Who is Abraham?
Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest
What are ordinal directions?
These two rivers provided fertile land for early civilizations to grow.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The longest river in the world that cuts through the Sahara desert and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Nile River
Mountains in the Western United States
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The religious belief in and worship of a single, all-powerful God.
Monotheism
North, East, South, West
What are the Cardinal Directions?
Ranked divisions that grouped people in a society based on their wealth, jobs, and power.
Social Classes
Monumental tomb structures built to protect royal bodies and provide luxury in the afterlife.
What is a pyramid?
Large body of water south of the United States
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
These helped preserve Hebrew beliefs and taught people how to live their daily lives.
What is the Hebrew Bible, the Exodus story, and the Ten Commandments?
The Sea that connects the Middle East to Southern Europe and North Africa and supports trade.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
An adaptable sound-based script that other civilizations adopted, shaping later writing systems
What is the Phoenician alphabet?
Rulers with absolute authority whom people obeyed as divine descendants of the gods.
What is a pharoah?
Mountains in the Eastern United States
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
An ancient capital city in Israel that served as a major political and spiritual center.
What is Jerusalem?
The Sea that is located between Northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Red Sea?
A written collection of written laws that established standardized rules and punishments.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Advances that helped Egyptians plan farming, build large structures, and support a growing population
What is using mathematics and science to predict seasonal changes of the Nile's floods?
Country directly north of the United States
What is Canada?
A set of shared moral and religious laws designed to guide behavior and create social order.
What are the ten commandments or Decalogue?