The Hebrew Bible says the God gave Moses a set of laws known as these.
What are the Ten Commandments?
100
a pointer for cardinal directions, north, shouth, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
100
The Greeks word for their civilization.
What is Hellas?
200
to tame wild animals or plants
What is to domesticate?
200
an area of flat land
What is a plain?
200
worship of only one god.
What is monotheism?
200
helps you estimate real distances on Earth. It marks off very small distances to stand for miles and kilometers on a map.
What is a scale?
200
the age a boy left home in Athens or Sparta to go to school.
What is 7.
300
to move from one area to another
What is migrate?
300
the "Land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
300
the process through which a person goes from one life to the next. Hindus believe that after a person dies, he or she is reborn into another life.
What is reincarnation?
300
the box in which a map's symbols are explained.
What is the legend or key?
300
stories about gods and heroes who could be both mortal and immortal.
What are myths?
400
the study of the ways of past cultures through objects they left behind.
What is archaeology?
400
a series of stacked rectangular platforms that formed a huge pyramid-shaped structure. Mesopotamians believed these linked the heavens and the Earth.
What is a ziggurat?
400
Siddartha Gautama became known as this person. "The Enlightened One". He believed in the Four Noble Truths.
Who is Buddha?
400
the lines that run parallel from north to south on a globe or map.
What are longitude lines?
400
open-air horse racing track.
What is a hippodrome?
500
a method scientists use to estimate the age of living things after they have past.
What is carbon dating?
500
area with rich, fertile soil that is in a crescent shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
The world's oldest religion and the main religion in India. There are four Vedas and this religion begins with an H.
What is Hinduism?
500
this type of map shows the pattern of something spread out over and area. This map can show the distribution of languages, religions, drinking water, etc, over the span of an area.
What is a distribution map?
500
type of government that is ruled by the military and kings.