Topic 1 Lsn 9: Citizenship
What is a citizen?
A legal member of a country
BCE and CE stand for what?
Before Common Era and Common Era
What is the most common climate of the region?
Arid or Desert climate with very little precipitation
Vocab: How do we define irrigate?
Supply water to crops by digging many miles of canals
TRUE or FALSE: Democratization is a DECREASE in democracy
FALSE
One way Historians Measure Time?
T or F: SW Asia is a region of vast deserts, high mountains, and fertile plains
True
Vocab: How do we define domesticate?
to train the growth of a plant or behavior or an animal in ways useful to humans
Rights and Responsibilities
What is a Primary Source?
Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event
The region within SW Asia that is called the birthplace of Civilization?
Fertile Cresent
The system of writing the Sumerians developed?
Cuneiform
The one civic action that is BOTH a right and responsibility?
Vote/Voting
Two additional sources (studies) that Historians use?
Archaeology and Anthropology
What is the highest mountain in the SW Asia region?
Mount Damavand
T or F: Sumer is located southeast end of the Fertile Cresent
True
Immigrants become citizens through this process?
Naturalization
The way a person sees a matter or situation?
Point of View
What is the Essential Question for this topic?
How Do Values Shape a Culture
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates River?
Mesopotamia