Map Skills/Geography
What are the cardinal directions?
North, South, East, and West
What is NOT something humans created?
A. Fire
B. Bronze
C. Ice
C. Ice
What was the area between the Tigris and Euphrates River's called?
The Fertile Crescent
How were the Israelite's different from other early civilizations?
They were monotheistic, which means they believed in one god.
The Nile River.
What are the intermediate directions?
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest.
What was the earliest age of civilization called?
The Paleolithic Age.
Who created the first set of written laws?
Hammurabi
What religion did the people of Israel commonly practice?
Judaism.
What were the pyramids built for?
The tombs of dead pharaohs.
What type of map displays country borders and cities?
A political map.
How did early man make bronze?
By mixing copper and tin
Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Nebuchadnezzar II
How many tribes were the Israelite's divided into with the sons of Jacob?
12 Tribes for each of Jacob's sons.
What type of government was Egypt?
Egypt was a theocracy.
What continent is located in all 4 hemispheres?
Africa
What was the oldest book in the world?
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
How many hieroglyphs are there?
Over 700.
What is a topographic map?
A type of map that conveys geographic and man-made structures through lines and curves.
Name all the main benefits of systematic agriculture.
Settled communities, specialization, surplus of food, rapid population increase, steady water and food supply, main cause of the Bronze Age.
Name every modern day country the Fertile Crescent ran through.
Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, and for some scholars, Egypt.
What are all the names for the Egyptian sun god?
Re, Ra, Amen-Ra, Pra, Aton.