Geography: You'd Be Lost Without It!
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100
This is the study of the world, it's people, and the landscapes they create.
What is geography?
100
Sumerians invented this to be used on small carts and vehicles as well as to help in pottery.
What is the wheel?
100
The Phoenicians were the first people to develop this.
What is the alphabet?
100
This is a form of government where the people elect leaders and rule by majority.
What is democracy?
100
The United States has this type of economic system.
What is market economy?
200
This is one complete trip the Earth makes around the sun.
What is a revolution?
200
This is the world's first writing system developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
200
This was 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of Babylonian life.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
This is a type of government ruled by a single, powerful ruler who often rules by force.
What is dictatorship?
200
This is a country with a strong economy and a high quality of life.
What is a developed country?
300
This is the theory that the continents have moved over millions of years.
What is plate tectonics or continental drift?
300
The Sumerians perfected this practice of getting water from a river to their crops and it helped them create a surplus of food.
What is irrigation?
300
The Hittites developed this wheeled vehicle to be used in wars.
What is a chariot?
300
In a monarchy, this is the type of ruler you would have.
What is a king or queen?
300
This economic system is where people grow their own food and create their own goods.
What is traditional economy?
400
This is the place where two air masses of different temperature and moisture meet.
What is a front?
400
This is the belief and worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
These two rivers helped develop the area known as Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
400
Absolute and Constitutional are two types of this government.
What is monarchy?
400
This is the economic system in which the central government makes all economic decisions.
What is command economy?
500
This is the cleanest burning fossil fuel.
What is natural gas?
500
This is a story of a Sumerian King who was half man, half god and the story became one of the world's greatest epics.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
This was the basic political unit of Sumer and other civilizations in Mesopotamia.
What is a city-state?
500
This is a political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life.
What is communism?
500
This is the value of all goods and services produced in a country in a single year.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
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