Thinking like a Historian/Geographer
Paleolithic/Neolithic Revolution
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient China/Ancient India
100
A journal entry is an example of what type of source
What is a primary source
100
What is one feature of a civilization
Answers may vary
100

This was the writing of Ancient Sumer

What is cuneiform?

100
This is the term for a belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
The Ancient Chinese used these for fortune telling
What are oracle bones?
200
Give an example of a natural geographic feature
Answers may vary: Rivers, mountains, etc.
200
From where did the first humans originate?
East Africa
200

What was a written rule for legal procedures created by a king of Babylonia

What is the Code of Hammurabi

200
The Egyptian god-king
What is a pharaoh?
200
Which geographic feature limited cultural diffusion between Ancient India and Ancient China
What is the Himalaya Mountains
300

Describe the location of China using N,S,E,W

Answers vary

300
Ancient civilizations lived near these
what are rivers
300

What is a nickname for Mesopotamia?

Fertile Crescent

300
The writing system of the Ancient Egyptians is called
Hieroglyphics
300
These seasonal winds are responsible for severe weather changes on the Indian subcontinent.
What are monsoons?
400

Describe the location of Egypt using N,S,E,W

Answers may vary

400
Having a food surplus leads to an increase in a civilization's
Population
400

How did Hammurabi's Code display divisions between social classes

Different punishments for people of different social classes

400
Why are the writing systems of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia so important to historians?
The written history helps them understand their way of life
400
This river in Ancient China is also referred to as the River of Sorrow
What is the Huang He River
500

What kind of things do historians do to create a history of an event

Find out the context, corroborate sources, determine the reliability of sources 

500
Why was the Neolithic Revolution considered a turning point?
Change from hunting and gathering lifestyle to sedentary, agricultural-based lifestyle
500

What was the name of the building where people from Ancient Sumer went to worship?

What is a ziggurat

500
Why did the Ancient Egyptians build shadufs and dig canals?
To improve irrigation To increase agricultural production
500
Archaeological evidence of the city of Mohenjo-Daro suggests what?
urban planning drainage system
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