Government
Geography
US History
World History
Economics
100
the form of government practiced in ancient Athens
What is a Direct Democracy
100
the imaginary line that divides the northern and southern hemispheres
What is the equator?
100
an act against the British government when colonists dressed as Indians and dumped tea into a harbor to protest its high taxation
What was the Boston Tea Party?
100
the spreading of customs, religions and ideas across lands as people trade and migrate
What is cultural diffusion?
100
a product that is produced or extracted from a country and sold to other countries
What is an export?
200
the way the Constitutions assures no one branch of the government becomes too powerful
What is "checks and balance"?
200
the triangular area of land at the mouth of a river that contains very fertile soil
What is a delta?
200
a tax levied on the colonists related to all documents
What was the Stamp Act?
200
the 4000 mile trade route that carried goods back and forth between China and Europe beginning about 200 BCE
What is the Silk Road?
200
someone who uses the goods or services that someone else provides
What is a consumer?
300
the branch of the US governement responsible for making laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
the two rivers that provided rich soil in the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
300
the war between the British and French which later contributed to the Revolutionary War
What was the French and Indian War?
300
an Egptian pharaoh who made herself the ruler over Egypt because her step-son was too young to rule
Who was Queen Hatshepsut?
300
the money that a country uses to exchange for goods and services
What is currency?
400
an individual who takes power of leadership in a government by force.
What is a tyrant?
400
another name for the code that tells you what symbols mean on a map or the comparative distances
What is a map legend (key)
400
a series of laws, which included the Quartering Act, put on the colonists to punish them for costing the British government so much money
What were the Intolerable Acts?
400
the first known written code of law
What is Hammurabi's Code
400
when a product or good is in short supply and its cost goes up
What is scarcity?
500
the form of government where a small number of priviledged individuals make the decisions for all
What is an oligarchy?
500
artificially watering land
What is irrigation?
500
he is remembered as the "Father of the Bill of Rights"
Who was George Mason?
500
the two main rival city-states in Greece
What were Sparta and Athens?
500
the trading of goods or services for other goods or services
What is bartering?
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