Geography
What are the intermediate directions?
Northeast,Northwest,Southeast,Southwest
What is another name for the old stone age.
The paleolithic age
How were the Israelites different from Mesopotamians and other civilizations.
They were monotheistic
Why did Egyptians make the pyramids.
To be tombs for the pharaohs and to protect them from animals, robbers, and floods.
What are the cardinal directions?
North, South, east, and west
What is the map scale used for?
It is a unit of measure such as an inch to measure distances on a map.
How would people in the old stone age get food.
They would hunt and gather.
Who was responsible for the first written law code and what were the punishments like.
Hammurabi; they were harsh
Describe how the Nile River affected life in ancient Egypt.
It helped them farm, bathe, trade, travel, drink,protection,
What are the lines of longitude?
Imaginary lines that run North to South on the Earth and they measure the distance East and West.
How many years are in a decade, a century, and in a millennium.
10,100, 1,000
What was the first domesticated animal?
The wolf.
What was the area between the Tigris and Euphrates called why was it called this.
The Fertile Crescent. It was called this because the land there was really Fertile.
What geographical feature protected them from invasions in the north, south, and east and west?
The delta marshes, cataracts, and the desert.
What is a primary source?
A contemporary account of an event or topic.
What does a map key/map legend do for you?
It is a list of symbols that tells you what the symbols on the map mean.
Artisans, merchants, blacksmiths,
Are examples of specialization.
What are some Sumerian inventions?
cuneiform, wheel and axel, wooden plow, chariots, sailboats, bronze.
Why did ancient Egypt study the stars?
To track time, seasons, and to help with travel, and To predict flooding in the Nile.
What is the map title used for?
Tells you what type of map you are looking at.
What are lines of latitude?
Imaginary lines that run west to east, and measure the distance north and south.
What is domestication? How did it help the Neolithic people survive.
Domestication is when you train animals to do the things you want them to. They did the heavy farm work, and the animals were an extra supply of wool and meat.
How did the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers help the people of Mesopotamia?
It left a soil called silt behind and it helped them farm. Also gave them fresh water to water their plants.
Share the achievements of Narmer also known as Menes.
He united Upper and Lower Egypt and established a dynastic rule.
When reading a timeline and computing the numbers of years between two events in the same time period, you must _______ the two numbers. When computing the numbers of years between two events in the different time periods, you must _______ the two numbers.
Subtract and add