Geography
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Greece
Rome
100
The study of the earth and how people use it.
What is GEOGRAPHY?
100
These two rivers surrounded ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
A system of writing based on pictures can be one of these two things.
What are hieroglyphics and cuneiform?
100
Like Florida, this is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
Settlers chose to settle in Rome because these gave them protection from invaders.
What are the Seven Hills?
200
This many themes of geography were studied in Module 1.
What is FIVE?
200
The development of irrigation allowed ancient Mesopotmians to do this.
What is farm dry land?
200
Ancient Egyptians were polytheistic, which meant this.
What is they worshipped multiple gods?
200
My name is Nikolas. I went to school at the age of seven to learn how to read and write. I will also learn about the arts, literature and science, because I live in this city-state.
What is Athens?
200
A democracy and a republic are similar, because they both allow this.
What is people to control their own government?
300
The theme of geography that describes where things are located.
What is LOCATION?
300
Under Hammurabi's Code, this would happen to a man who put out the eye of another man.
What is his eye would be taken out?
300
This was one contribution of ancient Egyptians.
What is papyrus, a number system based on 10, geometry and mathematics, a 365-day calendar, embalming, dentistry, pharmacy, surgery, cosmetics or wigs?
300
This ancient Greek philosopher was a student of Plato. He was the first to classify plants.
Who is Aristotle?
300
Rome fought this foreign empire, led by Hannibal, for 23 years during the Punic Wars.
What is Carthage?
400
Miami is located south of Boca Raton. This is called the ______________ location.
What is RELATIVE LOCATION?
400
This revealed stories of ancient Mesopotamians to modern archaeologists.
What are clay tablets with cuneiform baked on them?
400
Egypt was divided into these two colored lands.
What are the red land and the black land?
400
This is a person who designs and supervises the construction of structures and buildings.
What is an architect?
400
Both Rome, Assyria and Greece were examples of this, a group of states ruled by one leader.
What is an empire?
500
You ate an orange this morning grown in Brazil and it was transported by boat, plane and truck. This theme of geography is:
What is MOVEMENT?
500
Assyrians were best known for being fantastic at this.
What is being warriors?
500
This stone was found by French soldiers in 1799. It was finally translated in the 1820's and the translation revealed that the symbols on the stone actually represented sounds.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
This is the name of a temple built on an acropolis in Athens to honor the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
500
The interests of Roman patricians were represented in this law-making body.
What is the senate?
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