Geography
When zero degrees latitude meets 0 degrees longitude
What is the geographic center of the earth?
Alphabetical list at the back of the book that shows page numbers.
What is an index?
Agriculture began in which Stone Age period
What is neolithic?
Sumerian writing
What is cuneiform?
President known for the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Name for 180 degrees longitude
What is the International Dateline
Another name for a dictionary in your textbook
What is the glossary?
Large animals such as the wooly mammoth, saber-toothed cat.
What is megafauna?
A tax paid for protection
What is a tribute?
1918 illness that caused the world to wear masks, quarantine- similar to Covid 19
What is the Spanish flu?
Narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is an strait?
Chronological events in an organized manner
What is a timeline?
Application of knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet people's needs
What is technology?
Sumerian temple
What is a Ziggurat?
Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washingon
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Two hemispheres North America is located in.
What is the north and west?
The cover of your textbook is from what civilization.
What is Egypt?
Raising of plants and animals to make them useful to humans
What is domestication?
Outpost of people from one land who live in another land (U.S. started with 13)
What is a colony?
Person on the 100 dollar bill
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Name the four contiguous time zones in the United States from east to west.
What are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific?
Circa stands for.
What is about? Not certain of the year.
A person that moves regularly from place to place
What is a nomad?
Civilization that is known for shipbuilding, sailing, trading, and the alphabet
Who are the Phoenicians?
Third President of the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson?