Geography
A symbol on a map to show direction and location. (North, South, East & West).
What is a compass?
The time before the invention of writing.
What is prehistory?
The two rivers that ran through Mesopotamia that allowed for trade and battles to occur.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The world's longest river in the ancient Egyptian civilization that is more than 4,000 miles long.
What is the Nile River?
An ancient form of Greek government which means "rule of people" still used today in places like the United States.
What is Democracy?
Location, Region, Movement, Place and Human-Environment Interaction (MRHELP).
What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
People that move from place to place.
Who are nomads?
Mesopotamian King who set down a code of cruel, organized laws for people follow.
Who was Hammurabi?
A series of rulers from the same family, considered royalty, which passes down from generation to generation.
What is a Dynasty?
The event that held the first types of sports, like Javelin and Wrestling.
What is the Olympics.
Absolute Location and Relative Location, which are measured in degrees on the map, horizontally and vertically.
What are Latitude and Longitude?
The names of the two Stone Ages.
What are the Old Stone Age (Paleolithic) and the New Stone Age (Neolithic)?
An early form of writing that used a combination of wedges and lines around 3100 B. C.
What is Cuneiform?
Egyptian form of writing using symbols to represent things and ideas
What are Hieroglyphics?
Two famous City States- One known for it's strength the other for it's intelligence.
What are Athens and Sparta?
Telling where one place is by referring to another place. For example: My house is by Garcia's and El Mezquite.
What is relative location?
The time when people no longer had to hunt and gather because they could plant crops (farm), domesticate animals, and settle in one place.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Places for worshiping the gods, located in the center of cities, where priests could pray and offer foods or sacrifices.
What are Ziggurat Temples?
Major trade route in China that spread throughout the Asian continent, full of dangers and extreme weather conditions. Many expensive items were taken on this route.
What is the Silk Road?
The 3 Branches of Government that make the laws, make sure you obey the law, and that judges you if you commit crimes and break the laws.
The Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial Branches.
The number of continents and oceans and their names.
What are 7 continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica) and 5 oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Arctic, Indian).
Migrating people started to settle their civilizations in these areas because they could farm and develop cities.
What are River Valleys?
The first known epic myth from Ancient Mesopotamia about the adventures of a king and his friend Enkidu searching for immortality.
What is What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Chinese philosopher that focused on unifying Chinese society and influenced people with ideas of family, societal, and government values.
Who is Confucius?
A democracy that is indirect.
What is a representative democracy?