Map Skills
Middle East Map
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Judaism
100
The line of latitude at 0 degrees.
What is the Equator?
100
The capital of Egypt
What is Cairo?
100
The temple built by the Mesopotamians to worship their gods.
What is a Ziggurat?
100
This process was used to prepare the dead for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
100
The unleavened bread eaten on Passover, to remember the Exodus.
What is Matzo?
200
The line of longitude at 0 degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
A city in Saudi Arabia
What is Mecca?
200
First form of writing, developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
200
This is the river valley where the Egyptian civilization began.
What is the Nile?
200
God made him two promises: One was land and the second was that he would be the father of a great nation.
Who was Abraham?
300
This type of map would show you the average temperature in parts of Canada.
What is a climate map?
300
The capital of Israel
What is Jerusalem?
300
This is the word that means "Land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
300
This word refers to the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
This is the term used for worshiping only one god.
What is monotheism?
400
This shows how small the map is compared to the real size of a place.
What is the map scale?
400
The capital of Syria
What is Damascus?
400
This had a wall enclosing the city with farmland outside. It also had irrigation canals bringing water from the river.
What is a city-state?
400
Snefru, King Tut and Menes are examples of this.
What is a Pharaoh?
400
God promised the Jewish people this figure would return and restore their kingdom.
Who is the Messiah?
500
These are measured as north or south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
500
The capital of Iran
What is Tehran?
500
They were almost as important as the king because they helped the people know how to please their gods.
What are the priests?
500
This had three languages on it and was used to translate hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
The holiest day of the year for the Jewish people.
What is Yom Kippur?
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