Geography
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Early Civilizations
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Ancient Greece
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Another term for 0〫 latitude.
What is the Equator?
100
The period of time before written language.
What is prehistory?
100
The land that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The world's longest river that is more than 4,000 miles long?
What is the Nile River?
100
Cities that acted as independent countries with its own government, laws and customs.
What city-states?
200
Location, region, movement, place and Human-environment interaction.
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
200
The most important artifact found with Otzi the Iceman.
What was the copper ax?
200
The belief in many gods?
What is polytheism?
200
A series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group.
What is a dynasty?
200
A type of government in which means "rule of people."
What is democracy?
300
A display on a map to show direction. (North, South, East & West)
What is compass rose?
300
A term that refers to modern humans and to earlier groups that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans.
What are hominids?
300
Babylonian ruler who set down a code of organized laws for people follow.
What was Hammurabi?
300
A step mother who ruled as a regent to Thutmose III, declared herself pharaoh and refused to yield the trhone to him for fifteen years.
Who was Hatshepsut?
300
A society that sent children away from their family at age seven to attend military training.
What is Sparta?
400
The height of land above sea level.
What is elevation?
400
Another term for the Stone Age period when people began the practice of farming and domestication of animals.
What is the Neolithic Age?
400
An early form of writing that used a combination of wedges and lines around 3100 B. C.
What is cuneiform?
400
The time period in Ancient Egypt best known for the construction of Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx.
What is the Old Kingdom?
400
Country that is the location of the city-state of Troy and the famous Trojan War.
What is Asia Minor?
500
Telling where one place is by referring to another place. For example: The Flagship Cinema is across the street from Dorman's Ice Cream.
What is relative location?
500
A site in Tanzania where the Leakey family found early fossilized remains of human ancestors.
What is the Olduvai Gorge?
500
An epic poem from Ancient Sumeria about the adventures of a king and his friend Enkidu.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
The organs placed inside the canopic jars.
What is the stomach, intestines, liver and lungs?
500
The most famous Spartan ruler who led 300 Spartans to battle the Persians.
Who was King Leonidas?
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