Social Studies
What is the name of the type of source that is a first hand account of an event?
Primary Source
In pre-historic times, what were people with no permanent homes called?
What are nomads
What state did the Haudenosaunee primarily settle in?
What is New York
Which geographic factor had a major influence on the development civilization? Extra Credit-What is the largest one of these geographic factors in the world?
What is rivers- Extra Credit- Nile River
What popular sport was developed by the Haudenosaunee?
What is lacrosse
What is the name of the social studies field that studies places and the relationships between people and their environments.
What is geography
What continent do scientists believe earliest people originated from?
What is Africa
What are the six nations of the Haudenosaunee?
Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora.
The two rivers were settled in Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is "the land between the river"
What type of map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers, and deserts?
What is a Physical Map
What was the main cause for the establishment of permanent settlements?
The development of farming (or domestication of plants and animals)
What three crops made up the "Three Sisters"? - Extra Credit- what naturally occurring element did one of the sisters convert from the air in order for the plants to grow?
What are corn, beans, and squash. Extra Credit- Nitrogen
What is the term for transporting of water to crops and for personal use.
Irrigation
What is the name of the oldest known literary work from ancient Mesopotamia?
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh
Which field of social science primary analyzes primary source documents and compares societies and regions?
What is a historian
What is the term for the transition of people from hunting and gathering to agricultural based societies?
What is the Neolithic Revolution
What is the name of the environmental sustainability principle that the Haudenosaunee lived by?
What is the 7th Generation Principle
What is the name of the Sumerian writing system?
Cuneiform
What is the name of the device the Egyptians used to capture water for the Nile?
What is the Shaduf
What two lines on a map would help show the climate of an area?
What are Longitude and Latitude lines.
What is the name of the time in human history in which humans lived in small groups and moved to new areas when food became scarce?
What is the Paleolithic Age or Stone Age
What is the name of the agreement between the Haudenosaunee that ended years of fighting and united them as a confederacy? Extra Credit- What is the agreement recorded on?
What is the Great Law of Peace. - Extra Credit- Wampum Belt
What is the name of the famous law code developed in Mesopotamia? Extra Credit- What is the name of the empire in which the law code developed?
What is Hammurabi's Code- Extra Credit- Babylon
What is the name of the city discovered in the Indus River Valley that had a sewage system and planned out city streets?
What is Mohenjo-Daro