Geography/Map Skills
What are the cardinal directions?
North, South, East, West
What is another name for the Old Stone age?
Paleolithic Age
What continent is Mesopotamia on?
Asia
What does monotheistic mean?
The belief in one god
What continent is Egypt located on?
Africa
What are the lines of Latitude?
Lines that run from East to West they run parallel
What is a nomad?
Nomads are people who regularly moved from place to place.
Name some Sumerian inventions
Some Sumerian inventions are the wheel, wooden plow, bronze, and chariots
In a patriarchal Society The oldest male relative is the the
Head of the household
Some beliefs in the afterlife is?
They believed the soul could travel to a better place after death if they were good.
What are the continents?
North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Australia
How did systematic Agriculture change their lives?
This revolution changed their lives since they could now have produce a constant supply of food leading to surplus.
What does polytheistic mean?
The belief in many gods.
Judaism influenced Christianity and _____
Islam
What protected Egypt in the North? South? East and West?
The Nile delta for the North
The Cataracts in the South
And the deserts for the the East and West
When reading a timeline and computing the number of years between two events in the same time period you must ________ the two numbers.
Subtract
What is Domestication?
Domestication is taming animals for human use.
What is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates river called?
The fertile crescent
The Israelite's lived in _____
Canaan or modern day Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Define theocracy
Theocracy is Government which same person is both political and religious leader
What is the difference between a primary source and a secondary source?
A primary source is information created at the same time as the event or a person directly involved in the event meanwhile a secondary source is information from somewhere else like a biography or a replica.
What are some examples of specialization jobs?
Artisans, Skilled workers, and Craftsman.
The first written law code is by?
Hammurabi
What made the Israelites different from the others?
They were monotheistic while others were polytheistic
Why did ancient Egypt study the stars?
They did it to predict the flooding of the river.