Geography
These are the four cardinal directions.
What are NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, and WEST?
These are two things that women were responsible for during the time of hunters and gatherers.
What are taking care of the children, gathering food, and cooking?
These people in Sumer were held high in the class system because they could write.
What are scribes?
The Phoenicians used cedar trees to build these.
What are ships?
This is the founder of Judaism.
Who is Abraham?
These are the intermediate directions.
What are NORTHEAST, NORTHWEST, SOUTHEAST, and SOUTHWEST?
This was the first type of weapon used to kill buffalo and other animals.
What is a club?
This was the main reason the Code of Hammurabi was created.
What is to protect the people?
Phoenicians used these animals to create purple dye for cloth.
Abraham agreed to practice this.
What is monotheism?
These are the points on a globe, represented by coordinates in degrees.
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
This is the reason hunter-gatherers moved around a lot.
What is they had to follow their food source and other natural resources?
This Mesopotamian leader is known for building the first library.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
The Phoenician Alphabet consisted of this many letters.
What are 22?
This land was promised to the Israelites.
What is Canaan?
Name five of the continents.
What are: Australia, Europe, South America, Asia, North America, Antarctica, and Africa?
What did a surplus of food lead to during the Stone Age?
What is specialization of labor?
Name one leader from Mesopotamian time and give two details about him.
Nebuchdanezzar: built Hanging Gardens for his wife, was the leader of the Chaldean ("New Babylonian") Empire
Sargon: created the world's first empire, leader of the Akkadian Empire
Hammurabi: leader of the Babylonian Empire, created the first code of laws
Ashurbanipal: leader of the Assyrian Empire, had powerful army, built first library
What is glass blowing?
This is the moral code all people of the Jewish faith are required to follow.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Name all five oceans.
What are: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern?
This was the biggest difference between the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age.
Name three benefits of being near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What are for fresh water, fishing, irrigation?
Name two consequences of the production of purple dye.
What are they smelled really bad, led to air pollution, and killing so many snails led to almost extinction?
What is the Torah?