The three rivers associated with Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
What are the Tigris, Euphrates and Nile Rivers?
100
Characteristics of this Greek city-state were: strong army, oligarchy, and trade and travel were prohibited.
What is Sparta?
100
Draw a diagram of the European feudal system in the Middle Ages.
What are kings, nobles, knights and peasants?
100
This is known as the period of time before written records.
What is prehistory?
100
This is an area of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
Considered to be the absolute rulers in Ancient Egypt; people followed their orders because they were to believed to be from the gods
What are pharaohs?
200
This leader spread the Hellenistic (Greek) culture from Macedonia to India. He conquered 2 million square miles of land and never lost a battle.
Who is Alexander the Great?
200
The effects of this event included the collapse of feudalism and a loss of faith in the Catholic church.
What is the Black Death?
200
The difference between a fossil and an artifact?
What is fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals or plants that lived in the past and artifacts are material remains of a society?
200
This is an area of land in which a river divides into smaller rivers and empties into a larger body of water; usually shaped like a triangle. The Nile River has a well-known one full of rich, fertile soil.
What is a delta?
300
This river valley civilization had organized city blocks, an advanced plumbing system and traded with other civilizations such as Mesopotamia.
What is the Indus River Valley?
300
These are known as hallmarks of Ancient Roman engineering. They were constructed to bring water from distant sources into cities and towns.
What are aqueducts.
300
This is the city that all three major religious groups claimed as their Holy Land. The Crusades were a series of wars fought between Christians and Muslims over this city for close to 200 years.
What is Jerusalem?
300
During this age (also known as the Old Stone Age), humans developed the first use of tools and were nomads and hunters and gatherers.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
300
This is the main difference between a physical and a political map.
What is a physical map shows landforms and a political map shows boundaries such as cities and countries?
400
What temples were called in Mesopotamia and the name of their writing system.
What are ziggurats and cuneiform?
400
The Peloponnesian War was fought between two main city-states. This city-state eventually lost the war, bringing an end to its Golden Age (a period of economic growth and a flourishing of its culture).
What is Athens?
400
The Silk Road is an ancient example of this. Trade routes like the Silk Road allowed societies to come together to buy and sell items and share ideas.
What is globalization? (Cultural Diffusion would also be accepted here.)
400
This very important development changed history - humans were able to stay in one place, they no longer had to worry about surviving and could take time to specialize in particular skills, villages could form, etc.
What is agriculture?
400
Name all seven continents and the five oceans.
What is Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America...Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern?
500
A farming technique that supplies water to an area of land
What is irrigation?
500
Name these four types of government in order:
government ruled by a king/queen, government ruled by a group of people, government ruled by and for the people, government ruled by someone who has taken control by force and rules with all the power
What are monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, dictatorship?
500
This was a document signed by England's King John that gave English people basic rights. It established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king, and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right to justice and the right to a fair trial.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
This is an area of land that people crossed thousands of years ago from Asia into North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
500
Name the 5 Themes of Geography.
What is Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location and Place?