Maps and Geography
CIVIL
River Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamia and Egypt
Religions
100
This physical feature was crucial to the development of the early civilizations that we have studied.
What is the river, or river valley.
100
What does the "C" in CIVIL stand for
Citites
100
Pyramids
Nile River
100
This is the Sumerian King who had the first law code written.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
Egyptians and Sumerians believed in many gods, as did the Greeks and Romans. Another word for this is...
What is polytheistic?
200
This is an example of a natural barrier.
What is a mountain, desert, ...
200
Identify 2 examples of a Complex Institutions.
...
200
China
Yellow River or Huang He
200
Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means this...
What is "land between the rivers"?
200
This Egyptian practice is evidence of their belief in life after death. It is also a popular halloween costume...
What is mummification? What are mummies?
300
This type of map shows borders between different governed areas (i.e. states, counties, countries).
What is a political map?
300
Explain how specialized jobs (different kinds of work based upon skills and abilities) may lead to social classes.
Neolithic
300
India (Pakistan)
Indus (also would accept Ganges)
300
The Nile flows from Upper Egypt in the South to Lower Egypt in the North into this larger body of water that was important for sea-going merchants from Europe, Africa, and Asia...
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
He was the founder of Judaism.
Who is Abraham?
400
Pictured here is an important component of a map that tells you the orientation.
What is a compass rose?
400
Identify and describe two different examples of ancient writing systems.
Cuneiform, hieroglyphics, hieratic script, demotic script.
400
Easternmost river of Mesopotamia
Tigris
400
The title given to hereditary leaders of Ancient Egypt.
What is Pharaoh?
400
This moral code of conduct is practiced by not only the Jews but Christians as well.
What are the 10 Commandments?
500
This type of map shows geographic features like mountains, valleys, lakes, etc...
What is a physical map?
500
Seen here, this is an ancient Egyptian form of irrigation.
What is a shaduf?
500
China's Yellow River is given the nickname "the River of Sorrows" due to this...
What is unpredictable flooding?
500
What is the name of these tiered pyramid-like structures of Mesopotamia?/GettyImages-84500182-9d1e12323e0a42dab286dfead4cc31a8.jpg)
What is a ziggurat?
500
Identify 3 Jewish Holidays
What is Hannukah, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanna, Passover, Sukkot, et. al.