Map Skills
Five Themes
Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
Greece
Rome
100
Name all the continents.
N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica
100
What type of location is described using latitude and longitude?
Absolute Location
100
What do we call the study of past human events?
History
100
Which river runs through Egypt?
The Nile
100
What are the seasonal winds that shape if in India called?
Monsoons
100
What is the largest peninsula in Greece?
Peloponnesian
100
Who survived the Trojan War and eventually settled along the Tiber River in Italy, whose descendants would found Rome?
Aeneas
200
Name all the oceans.
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, Southern
200
Which them of geography describe "what it is like there".
Place
200
What are immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.
Primary Sources
200
What is the name of the Ancient Egyptian writing script?
Hieroglyphs
200
What is the main mountain range that separates the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia?
Himalayas
200
Who were the people that lived on Crete that heavily influenced mainland Greek culture?
Minoans
200
Who killed his brother, founded Rome, and named the city after himself?
Romulus
300
What is the name of the shape that tells us the directions on a map?
Compass Rose
300
This type of region has a certain set of activities or interactions associated with hit, often centered around a focal point.
Functional Region
300
Changing growth and behaviors to fit human needs is called:
Domestication
300
The name of the rapids on the river in Egypt.
Cataracts
300
What is the walled, fortified area at the center of most cities found in the Indus Valley Civilization called?
Citadel
300
This means "high city", was the center of public life in ancient Greek city-states
Acropolis
300
What was the name of the group of people who actually voted on the laws of Rome?
Assemblies
400
Which lines runs east west along the globe?
Latitude
400
This is the permanent change of residence of an individual or group
Migration
400
What is the name of the Sumerian temples to their gods?
Ziggurat
400
The people to the south of Ancient Egypt whom, at times, ruled all of the ancient Egyptian world.
Kush
400
What does this writing say?
We don't know, it is undeciphered
400
What is the term we use to describe "rule by the people"?
Democracy
400
What was the name of the group of Patricians that dealt with foreign policy, Rome's budget, and proposed laws?
The Senate
500
Which lines run north-south along the globe?
Longitude lines.
500
Few services, lack of jobs, and unhappiness are examples of...
Push Factors
500
What is the name of the Sumerian script?
Cuneiform
500
What is a dynasty?
A ruling family.
500
What is the name of the collection of thousands of sacred hymns that form the basis of the Indus Valley religion that was a precursor to Hinduism?
The Vedas
500
What was the name of the group of enslaved people the Spartans used for all of their manual labor?
Helots
500
Where did Julius Caesar conquer on this rise to power?
Gaul
600
Which line separates the world into eastern and western hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
600
Improved living conditions, robust transportation networks, and families connections are all examples of...
Pull Factors
600
What is the first set of laws that we have from the ancient world?
Hammurabi's Code
600
What process did Egyptian pharaohs go through to make sure they travelled safely to the afterlife?
Mummification
600
What were the teachers and thinkers that eventually founded the religion we now know as Hinduism called?
Gurus
600
Who were the main adversaries of the Ancient Greeks?
The Persians
600
Who did Caesar father a child with after chasing Pompey to Egypt?
Cleopatra
700
This map show us the landforms of an area.
Physical Map
700
How people have been changed by the environments is called:
Adaptation
700
This empire was the first to perfect the use of iron for weapons and tools.
Assyrian Empire
700
The names of Pharaohs were written in the cartridge like shapes.
Cartouche
700
What do most scholars consider to be the most sacred Hindu text?
Bhagavad-Gita
700
What was the name of Alexander the Great's horse?
Bucephalus
700
Who was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity?
Constantine
800
This provides the explanation of the symbols on a map.
Map Key or Legend
800
How the environment is changed by people is called...
Modification
800
The name of the Persian's religion, which happened to be monotheistic.
Zoroastrianism
800
Which pharaoh was the Great Pyramid built by?
Khufu
800
What does the eightfold path lead to?
Nirvana
800
What was the ancient Greek sport of Pankration?
A combination of wrestling and boxing with very few rules, ancient MMA
800
Explain one reason, in detail, that Rome fell.
Various Answers.