Geography of United States
The Physical Geography of the United States varies greatly from coast to coast. The United States stretched across the North American _______________, or large landmass. The country can be divided into four regions known as the: _______________, _____________, ______________, _____________.
Continents, Northeast, Mid-West, West, South
Four of the Great Lakes…..form part of the U.S.-Canadian border.
Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Superior
Group of people having a similar backgrounds, incomes, anyways of living
Social class
Cause: Mesopotamia’s attractive location between two rivers……
Effect: the peoples of Mesopotamia relied upon these rivers to provide drinking water, agricultural irrigation, and major transportation routes.
Cause: The earliest existing set of written laws, known as Hammurabi’s Code, established rules and punishments for Babylonians
Effect: Influenced and established standards; the code gave people moral standards, created distinct social classes, and worked to create equality. It was supposed to "protect the weak from the strong", but it in turn favored the rich and was harsher on the poor.
Mountains extending for 2,000 miles in the eastern United States and Canada ______________.
Appalachian Mountains
The Northeast includes the New England states of …………
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Supplying land with water from another place using a network of canals
Irrigation
Effect: Sumerians worshiped and honored many gods.
Cause: the Sumerians worshipped over 3,000 gods; polytheism
Cause: Writing developed in Mesopotamia in about 3500 B.C. and was first used to keep records.
Effect: Information and culture spread to new places; written language is the single most important and far-reaching technology available to humans and has served as the foundation for virtually all other information technologies from early etchings in clay to the world of digital access that we enjoy today.
The ______________ make up the world’s largest group of freshwater lakes.
Great Lakes
The ______________ is the major farming region of the United States, with corn, wheat, and dairy among its important products.
Midwest
more than needed
Surplus
Effect: Competing armies fought to control Mesopotamia and its desirable resources
Cause: based on agriculture, land and sufficient water supply were vital to the well-being of their cities
Effect: Phoenicia was wealthy and a major sea power from 1100 to 800 B.C.
Cause: the Phoenicians were the premier merchants and businessmen of the Mediterranean basin. They monopolized the timber trade and manufactured many products, such as Tyrian purple, which ultimately made them the wealthiest group of people during the period.
The ________________ is the largest river and most important trade waterway in the United States.
Mississippi River
The South’s climate has ………..
Hot, rainy summers and mild winters
A person that has no settled home
Nomads
Cause: The Assyrians overthrew the Babylonians…...
Effect:For 300 years, the Assyrian Empire expanded, conquered and ruled the Middle East, including Mesopotamia
How did the religion practiced by the Israelites differ from other religions practiced in the ancient world?
The religion of ancient Israelites differed from its neighbors, and most of the rest of the world at the time, in that it was monotheistic, meaning that they worshipped only one god.
The Midwest contains major manufacturing areas, such as Detroit, Michigan, home of the automobile industry. The Midwest’s largest city is Chicago, a port and transportation hub along Lake and canals and rivers connect the city to the _________________.
West of the Mississippi River lies the vast, mostly treeless ______________, where its native plants are prairie grasses and wildflowers and the harsh climates of hot summers and cold winters.
Gulf of Mexico, Great Plains
Kentucky and West Virginia mine for coal, and many of the Gulf States…………
Drill for oil
Rich in the substance plants need to grow well in regards to soil and land
Fertile
Effect: The Assyrian Empire fell to the Chaldeans, who created the New Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II.
Cause: The Babylonians rose to power in the late 7th century and were heirs of the urban traditions which had long existed in southern Mesopotamia. They eventually ruled an empire as dominant in the Near East as that held by the Assyrians before them.
What are the Ten Commandments and what is its role in Judaism?
The Ten Commandments are the important laws of the Jews which tell the Jewish people how they should live. ... Everything they do is based on the Ten Commandments, also known as the Ten Sayings. Jews believe that God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on two tablets of stone at Mount Sinai.