Maps & Geography
Egypt is on this continent.
Where is Africa?
The Hebrew people (Israelites) were enslaved in this country.
Where is Egypt?
This is a group of cities that each act like their own independent country. Each one has its own government, its own army, and its own special god or goddess that it worshipped.
What is a city-state?
This type of ideology follows a religious system that believes in only one god.
What is Monotheism?
This man is well-known as the central figure of Christianity.
Who is Jesus?
This type of map is a reference map that documents landscape features of a place, and generally show things like mountains, rivers, lakes, etc.
What is a physical map?
These maps show the specific types of economic activity or natural resources present in an area through the use of different symbols or colors depending on what is being predicted. (It is a type of thematic map)
What is a resource map?
The first major civilization in Mesopotamia was built by this group of people.
Who are the Sumerians?
According to Judaism, This man was considered the "father of the Jewish faith".
Who is Abraham?
This group of religions consists of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and is a set of monotheistic religions that admire or respect the religious figure Abraham.
What are Abrahamic Religions?
This type of a map is a reference map that shows the features people have created, such as cities, states, provinces, territories, and countries.
What is a political map?
These maps show information about the climate of an area. (It is a type of thematic map. Kind of a trick question.)
What is a climate map?
Each city-state was centered around these massive temples.
What is a ziggurat?
This concept of Judaism refers to a promise made to Abraham and Sarah that their descendants will be plentiful and live in a "promised land."
What is the Covenant?
This is the first part of the Bible, which is "essentially the Hebrew scriptures" from Jesus's time.
What is the Old Testament?
The "fertile crescent" was between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This land was referred to as the "cradle of civilization" and was located in the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (in modern-day Iraq).
What is Mesopotamia?
This was the world's first system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
This religious text of the Judaism faith contains the "whole of their laws".
What is the Torah?
This religion's followers believe there are three parts of God.
What is Christianity? (God the Father, God the Son, & God the Holy Spirit)
These maps (sometimes referred to as “special-purpose” maps) show themes or patterns across the area shown on a map. This group of maps include climate and resource maps.
What is a thematic map?
This map shows us the location of geographic areas and their features in relation to each other. This group of maps include political and physical maps.
What is a reference map?
This man was one of the most famous rulers in Mesopotamia, was known as the king of Babylon, and for developing a set of 282 laws that covered all aspects of life, from trade and marriage to theft and injury.
Who is Hammurabi?
According to the Islam faith, this man was the "last in the series of prophets" and was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Who is Muhammad?
This religious text of the Islam faith was believed to be the "last revealed scripture sent by God."
What is the Qur’an (Koran)?