Digging up the Past
Ancient China
Ancient Greece
Map SKills
religion
100
the study of past cultures through things that remain such as buildings, tools, or pottery
What is archeology
100
yellowish brown soil that blows in from the desert.
What is loess?
100
The ancient Greeks name for their civilization.
What is Hellas?
100
a pointer for cardinal directions, north, south, east, west
What is a compass rose?
100
worship of more than one god.
What is polytheism?
200
During this time huge ice sheets, called glaciers, covered great stretches of land.
What is the ice age?
200
system in which two crops are grown on the same land in one year.
What is double-cropping?
200
the origin of democracy is found in this city-state.
What is Athens?
200
helps estimate real distances on Earth. Marks off very small distances to stand for miles on a kilometer on a map.
What is a scale?
200
worship of one god.
What is monotheism?
300
objects made by people long ago.
What is artifacts?
300
The tallest point on Earth is located in this mountain range.
What are the Himalayas?
300
open aired racetrack
What is a hippodrome?
300
a box in which a map's symbols are explained.
What is a key or legend?
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?
400
The way in which humans produce the items they use.
What is technology?
400
shows a place's average weather over a period of time.
What is a climograph?
400
Boys in Athens and Sparta left home at this age to go to school.
What is 7?
400
the lines that run parallel from north to south on a globe or a map.
What are longitude lines?
400
According to the Hebrew Bible, God gave Moses a set of laws knows as these.
What is the Ten Commandments?
500
to tame wild animals.
What is domesticate?
500
pictures that represent words
What are pictographs?
500
A great philosopher who accepted the death sentence for his teachings.
What is Socrates?
500
a type of map that shows the patter of something spread our over an area. This map can show distribution of languages, religions, drinking water. etc.
What is a distribution map?
500
main religion in India and one of world's oldest religions.
What is Hinduism?
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