Human & Physical Geography
Paleolithic Era
Neolithic Era
River Valleys (1)
River Valleys (2)
100
Civilization emerged along these.
What are rivers? (Yellow, Indus, Nile, Tigris and Euphrates)
100
Def. - Move from place to place; without a permanent home.
What is the definition of nomadic?
100
Instead of gathering survival items from wild; people during the Neolithic Era did this.
What is farm?
100
The Egyptians invented this writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
This set of laws in Babylon were the first written laws by which people had to follow. (Think "an eye for an eye")
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
This type of geography includes things that occur naturally. (ex. rivers, oceans, mountains....)
What is physical geography?
200
These individuals collect resources from nature (berries, nuts, vegetation) and hunt wild game.
What are hunter-gatherers?
200
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
200
The Indus river valley is best remembered for this revolutionary invention.
What is indoor pluming?
200
When a family passes down power over long periods of time. This was seen in ancient and classical China.
What is a dynasty?
300
This type of map tells us about elevation of a given area.
What is a topographic map?
300
The term Paleo in Paleolithic refers to the prefix meaning this.
What is "Old" or "Ancient"?
300
To tame a wild animal for use by humans.
What is domestication?
300
The meaning of Mesopotamia. It translates from Greek.
What is the "land between the rivers"? The two rivers were the Tigris and Euphrates.
300
The Yellow River gets it's rich yellowish color from this.
What is silt?
400
They include: location, place, movement, human- environment interaction, and region.
What are the five themes of geography?
400
Tools were mainly made from these materials during the Paleolithic Era.
What are stone and animal bone?
400
Def. - A period of great change.
What is a revolution?
400
The rich soil around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was referred as this.
What was the Fertile Crescent?
400
Name two of the achievements of the people of the Yellow River Valley civilization.
1. compass, 2. paper making, 3. irrigation, 4. silk, 5. currency, 6. pottery
500
These two lines indicate exact location when you have both.
What are longitude and latitude?
500
No written language was invented during this period. This is how humans recorded their history.
What are cave paintings?
500
Refers to a permanent community with a complex organization, government, writing system, and class structure.
What is a civilization?
500
The writing system developed by the Mesopotamians.
Who is cuneiform?
500
When each city and it's surrounded area is controlled a single independent government.
What is a city-state?
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