Geography and Human Origins
The study of the physical features of the Earth and of the human activity that happens there
What is Geography?
When humans learned how to plant and grow their own crops
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The river that helped Egypt become a major civilization
What is the Nile River?
Writer from Dorian Greece period that wrote epics, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey
What is Homer?
In legends, these two boys were raised by a wolf and founded Rome
What is Romulus and Remus?
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Regions
What is The Five Themes of Geography?
A society/government that makes their god or gods the leader of the society
What is a Theocracy?
Pictographs used as a system of writing
What is Hieroglyphics?
A blended language based on a Greek dialect after Alexander conquered more land for Greece
What is Koine?
Law code created to prevent partisans from being able to exploit the law
What is the Twelve Tables?
Groups of animals that were human like, but not human
What is Hominid Groups?
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Residents of the civilization south of Egypt who conquered Egypt when it was weak, but kept their culture
What is the Nubians?
Those enslaved by the Spartans when they took their area of Messina and revolted against them, almost ending Sparta
What is the Helots?
Fought with Rome over trade control in the Mediterranean Sea in the Punic Wars
What is Carthage?
Societies of early humans that hunted and gathered their food, always on the move
What is Nomadic Societies?
One of the first cities, located in modern day Turkey, that covered 32 acres and had 5,000 to 6,000 people at its height
What is Catal Huyuk?
Controversial pharaoh who tried to impose monotheism, destroyed all other temples, and built a new capital
What is Akhenaten?
Continued the war against the Persians, brought new confidence because of victory in war, and Athens uses this to create an Empire, causing the beginning of the Greek Golden Age
What is the Delian League?
Appointed dictator by the senate for life, became increasingly popular due to his many reforms that helped the people, stabbed to death by his friends in the senate
What is Julius Ceasar?
Human-like animals that emerged about 40,000 years ago, made specialized tools, stalked and studied their prey, and made art
What is Cro-Magnon?
Culture that included polytheism, developed writing for divination, math system based on the number sixty, pottery, plowing, and bronze
What is Sumerian Culture?
Controversial pharaoh who was female, built a vast trading empire, sent out military expeditions to conquer, and supported developments in mining and agriculture
What is Hatshepsut?
Questioned the idea of an orderly world and believed that the gods did not exist and that man made his own destiny, Protagoras was the most famous one
What is the Sophists?
Nomadic barbarians that sacked Rome, but did not conquer it
What is the Huns?