Map skills/geography
Early Man
Mesopotamia
Israelites
Egypt
100
What are the cardinal directions? What are the intermediate directions?
North, south, east, west Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
100
surplus
more of a recourse than needed to survive
100
What does the acronym GRAPES stand for?
geography religion achievements politics economics social structure
100
Were the Israelites monotheistic or polytheistic?
monotheistic
100
How does the Nile River affect the life in ancient Egypt?
Fertile soil for farming, water for drinking, bathing and food, transportation, ability to trade, protection in the north and south
200
Map Title
Map Key or Map Legend
Map Scale
The name of the map, describes purpose of map or information being shared
Symbols on the map that represent something
a unit of measure on a map distance between two (2) points
200
How did people of the Old Stone Age get food?
What is another name for the Old Stone Age?
They hunted and gathered
Paleolithic Age
200
Name at least 7-8 things that the Sumerians invented
What does polytheistic mean?
What does monotheistic?
The wheel, cuneiform, wooden plow, bronze, sailboat, irrigation, ziggurat, astronomy
belief in many gods
belief in one god
200
How were the Mesopotamians and Israelites different from other people in ancient civilizations?
They were monotheistic, while other ancient civilizations were polytheistic
200
What continent is Egypt located on?
What geographical feature (or natural barrier) that protected Egypt from invasions?
Africa
North: Marshy deltas South: Dangerous cateracts
East and west: hot, dry, sandy deserts
300
Compass Rose
A circular drawing showing principle directions on a map, sometimes intermediate
300
What is a Nomad?
Why were people of the Paleolithic age nomads?
nomads are a group(s) of people who move from place to place
They were nomads because when they ran out of food, they had to go find more
300
How did the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers help the people of Mesopotamia?
The rivers left behind small amounts of dirt called silt, which was good for raising plants/crops
300
EGYPT
Achievements of Narmer/Menes
First king who unified the country peacefully at the beginning of the First Dynastic Period
300
Describe the ancient Egyptian social class pyramid
Pharaohs and their families on top then priests, army commanders, nobles, Government officials, then middle class, artisans, scribes, merchants, shopkeepers, then finally lower class, farmers, enslaved people, unskilled people
400
Lines of latitude run________
Lines of longitude run_______
Famous line of latitude
famous line of longitude
When reading a timeline you read from ____to____
Same time period you ______
Different time period you____
East and west, splitting the northern and southern hemispheres
North and south, splitting the eastern and western hemispheres
equator
Prime Meridian
Left to right
Subtract
Add
400
Systematic Agriculture
Describe this great revolution
Is the organized growing of food on a daily basis, farming. This great revolution changed their lives because they could stay in one place and farm. they still hunted and gathered, just less. This gave them a surplus and they specialized
400
Who was responsible for the first set of law codes?
What were the punishments?
Hammurabi
An eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth, what ever you did to someone, it would be done to you
400
Ancient Egyptian belief in the afterlife
Believed that life on earth could lead to afterlife & good of Book of the Dead
preserve by embalming o body could return to body after death
400
Why did the ancient Egyptians study the stars?
To determine the Nile's flooding. They used the stars to find northern direction when they built pyramids so the door could face north
500
How many continents are there?
Name them
how many years in a
Decade?
Century?
Millennium?
7
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia
Decade:10 years
Century:100 years
Millennium:1,000 years
500
Domestication: how did it help Neolithic people survive?
Specialization: what did they specialize in?
Is the taming of wild plants or animals. It helped them survive by it made difficult tasks easier
Is act or training for a particular job. They developed written language , weaving&sewing, making tools, discovered fire and sculpting, house making
500
What continent is Mesopotamia located on?
What two rivers were Mesopotamia surrounded by
What was the land between the rivers called? Why?
Asia
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Fertile crescent because the soil between the rivers was fertile and was good for farming from when the rivers would overflow, the dirt was called silt
500
Theocracy,
What power did pharaohs poss, why were they so powerful and respected?
Is a government in which the same person is both the political and religious leader. the power all pharaohs possessed were respect and powerful is because pharaohs were thought to be sons of Gods. They were honnored and respected. TOTAL POWER
500
What role did religion play in ancient Egyptian life
A very important role because they worshiped many gods, they believed the gods controlled natural human activities. They thought if they made the gods happy, good would happen, if they made the gods mad, bad would happen to them. They always wanted to please the gods.