Geography
Sources
Early Humans
Mesopotamia
Misc.
100
The lines that run East to West, but measure North and South.
What is Latitude?
100
The type of source that comes directly from the someone who was there at the time.
What is a primary source?
100
How paleolithic humans got their food. (hint: its two words that go together)
What is hunting and gathering?
100
A major achievement of the Mesopotamians, these large buildings were built to worship the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
100
A period of time of 10 years.
What is a decade?
200
The imaginary line that divides the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
200
The type of source that is made by someone after an event who was not there.
What is a secondary source?
200
This agricultural achievement allowed for early civilizations to grow surpluses of food.
What is Irrigation/ watering plants?
200
The ancient form of writing started by the Mesopotamians that used a clay tablet and a wooden reed.
What is cuneiform?
200
The job primarily done by men during the Paleolithic (old stone age) for food.
What is hunting?
300
Lines that run north and south, but measure East and West.
What is longitude?
300
The type of source shown here:
What is a primary source?
300
The two metals that make up Bronze. Tools made from them were stronger, sharper, and easier to make!
What are Tin and Copper?
300
The two rivers the Mesopotamians lived between, helping form the fertile crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
A city that is self governing and surrounded by farm lands.
What is a city-state?
400
The feature of a map that shows direction.
What is a compass rose?
400
The type of source shown here:
What is a secondary source?
400
The name for people getting specific jobs, when humans no longer needed to hunt and gather all day. Allowed for much better stone tools!
What is specialization?
400
His code was the first form of a standard set of laws, written down.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
The form of government practiced in Mesopotamia, one person with absolute power.
What is a Monarchy?
500
The pair of two numbers that show exactly on earth where someone is.
What are coordinates?
500
A PRIMARY source that would be used for a book report on George Washington.
Choices:
1) Biography, 2) Speech, 3) Movie about his life, 4) Textbook
What is a speech?
500
The name for working with metal. When we learned it, tools and weapons got a lot better!
What is Metallurgy?
500
The name of the type of religion that Mesopotamians practiced. It means belief in more than one god.
What is Polytheism?
500
The reason humans started settling down, making it difficult to move from place to place.
What is the agricultural revolution?