5 Themes of Geography
Physical characteristics (such as landforms) and human characteristics (such as population) are examples of this theme.
What is place?
Agriculture is more commonly known by this term.
What is farming?
This group of people became rich by trading purple dye found in snails.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
These temples for the gods provided places to worship in each Sumerian city-state.
What are ziggurats?
These are the two ways to describe location.
What are relative and absolute (or exact)?
Agriculture allowed people to rely less on this strategy of finding food.
What is hunting and gathering?
The capital city of this group, also known for Hammurabi’s Code, was a hub for trade given its central location.
Who are the Babylonians?
This common nickname for Mesopotamia comes from the fact that the rivers deposit nutrient-rich soil onto the land when they flood.
What is “The Fertile Crescent”?
The Assyrians were great warriors, known for inventing this powerful weapon designed to break through walls and doors.
What is the battering ram?
The city-states of Sumer were each dedicated to a different god; the similar religions are one reason that the city-states are an example of this theme.
What is region?
Mesopotamian farmers used these dam-like structures to control the flow of water.
What are levees?
To simplify writing associated with trade, the Phoenicians created a 22 symbol one of these, which is a set of symbols that represent different sounds of a language.
What is an alphabet?
This is the meaning of the word “Mesopotamia”.
What is “between the rivers”?
The Israelites left Canaan due to a long period of this, meaning there was a shortage of food.
What is famine?
The Assyrian library kept some of the Sumerian and Babylonian texts, allowing for this theme to occur.
What is movement?
The surplus of food produced from farming caused Sumerians to create these town-like areas that each had their own special god, government, and king.
What are city-states?
The Phoenicians used this nearby sea to become the “First Trading Empire”.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Mesopotamia stretched from the Persian Gulf in the south up to these mountains in the north.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
This king created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as a gift to his wife.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
The exposed environment of this empire created skilled warriors, due to their need to constantly defend themselves.
Who are the Assyrians?
(Bonus conversation: how is this Human-Environment Interaction?)
The surplus of crops from agriculture allowed for the creation of this, meaning that people had time to specialize in new types of jobs.
What is the division of labor?
In Babylon, trading occurred in marketplaces, otherwise known as these.
What are bazaars?
The Israelites originated in this region of Mesopotamia before trekking to Egypt.
What is Canaan?
These two groups successfully rebelled against the Assyrians and reclaimed their lands.
Who are the Medes and the Chaldeans?