Geography
map skills/social studies concepts
Mesopotamia/Israelites
Early humans
Egypt
100

The directions North,south,west and east

Cardinal directions

100

How many years in a decade

10

100

Area between the Tigris and Euphrates

Fertile crescent

100

Another name for new stone age

Neolithic age

100

where is Egypt located

Africa

200

How many continents are there

7

200

how many years in a millennium

1,000 years

200

where is Mesopotamia

Asia

200

what is systematic agriculture

Organized farming on a regular basis

200

nickname for Narmer

Menes

300

what does G.R.A.P.E.S mean

Geography, Religion, Achievements, Politics, Economy, and Social Structure.

300

Compass rose definition

A compass rose is a symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions.

300

what does polytheistic

belief in more than one god

300

what is a surplus

A barrage of food, more than needed

300

Define theocracy

government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

400

what are lines of latitude

Lines that run east to west, but measure your distance north or south

400

May key

Explains numbers,colors and symbols on a map

400

responsible for first written set of laws

code of Hammurabi/Hammurabi

400

what is a nomad

someone moving from place to place in search of food and shelter

400

Top of social pyramid

Pharaoh

500

Map scale

the distance on a map to the corresponding distance on the surface the map represent

500

When reading a timeline computing the numbers between two events in the same time period you must ____ the two numbers. when computing the number of years between two events in different time periods you must ______ the two numbers.

1=subtract

2=add

500

Sumerian inventions

wheel and axle,bronze,calendar and more

500

what is specialzation

Individual jobs, act of training artisan etc

500

Sun god

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