Geography
North, East, South, and West:_____________ Directions.
What are cardinal directions?
Instead of being nomads, people in the Neolithic era built these to live in one place.
What are permanent settlements/homes?
These are the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The longest river in the world, which provided ancient Egyptians with vital water, transportation, and fertile soil
What is the Nile River?
The first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
What is an exact location?
The taming of plants and animals for human use.
What is domestication?
This arc-shaped region of fertile farmland spanning the Tigris and Euphrates allowed early humans to thrive
What is the Fertile Crescent?
An Egyptian king.
What is a Pharaoh?
The war fought in the United States to gain independence from Great Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This is how people adapt to an environment-- for example, wearing warm clothes during cold winters.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This is when people go looking for food rather than staying in one place.
What is hunting-and-gathering?
This natural disaster was unpredictable in Mesopotamia, requiring ancient farmers to invent irrigation ditches and levees
What is flooding?
Massive, monumental structures built as final resting places and tombs for the pharaohs
What are pyramids?
The event where American colonists dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These lines run east to west.
What are latitude lines?
A scientist who studies human history by excavating and analyzing artifacts from early settlements
What is archaeologist?
This Babylonian king is most famous for establishing a strict, unified code of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This civil rights activist gave the "I Have a Dream" speech
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This line sits at 0o latitude.
What is the equator?
This is the era directly before the Neolithic Era.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This tool was invented by the Sumerians to make pottery, and later adapted for transportation
What is the wheel?
The formal writing system used in ancient Egypt, made up of stylized pictures and symbols
What are hieroglyphics?
This is the year the United States landed on the moon.
What is 1969?