Geographical Features
Early Civilizations
Mix
100
What is a crescent-shaped area of fertile land in the Middle East that extends from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf
What is the Fertile Crescent
100
What is a form of writing that Ancient Egyptians used
What is hyrogyliphics
100
What is the belief in a god or gods
What is religion
200
What is an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°
What is the equator
200

What is a ruler in ancient Egypt called

What is a pharoah

200

What is the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator

What is latitude

300
What is the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object
What is longitude
300
What is an ancient region in southwestern Asia, in present-day Iraq, comprising the southern part of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
300
What is the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning with the earliest chipped stone tools, about 2.4 million years ago, until the beginning of the Mesolithic Period, about 15,000 to 11,500 years ago in western Asia and southern Europe
What is the Paleolithic Era
400
What is a planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude
What is the Prime Meridian
400
What is a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing north from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean
What is the Nile River
400
What is the belief in or worship of more than one god
What is Polytheism
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