Geography
Thinking Like A Historian
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Israel
Vocabulary
100

These are the directions that consist of North, South, East, & West.

What are the Cardinal Directions?

100

These type of sources are given from second hand experience such as a textbook.

What are secondary sources?

100

These are the two rivers of Mesopotamia which earned Mesopotamia the name "Between the Rivers."

What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

100

This person was at the top of the social period of Ancient Egypt and considered a "god-king."

Who is the Pharaoh?

100

This person is considered the founder of Judaism and the Father of the Israelites.

Who is Abraham?

100

This is the belief in multiple gods.

What is polytheism?

200

This type of map shows the different natural barriers, bodies of water, elevation, etc.

What is a physical map?

200

Facts or information that prove something to be true is called this.

What is evidence?

200

Due to a lack of natural barriers, Mesopotamia city-states built these around their cities for protection.

What are walls?

200

Started by Snefru, these three architectural wonders are still visible today in Egypt .

What are the Great Pyramids of Giza?

200

Judaism was considered the first of this type of religion.

What is monotheistic?

200

These are small particles of sediment and soil that are easily carried in water .

What is silt?

300

This type of maps shows boundaries and borders such as for countries and states.

What is a political map?

300

An autobiography is considered this type of source.

What is a primary source?

300

Hammurabi made 282 of these. They are considered the first to be written down.

What is a code of laws?

300

The Ancient Egyptians believed that if you failed to do this process you would not be able to enter the afterlife.

What is mummification?

300

This Israelite led the Hebrews on an Exodus out of Egypt.

Who is Moses?

300

This preserves the body after death.

What is embalming?

400

This type of map has particular use.

What is a special purpose map?

400

This is something that can be found in sources usually brought on upon due to emotion.

What is bias?

400

This empire in Mesopotamia is credited for inventing the wheel.

What is Sumer?

400

This internal organ was left in the human body after death as it was needed to be weighed to enter the afterlife.

What is the heart?

400

Moses received these from Mt. Sinai and they are still used today as a basis for laws.

What are the Ten Commandments?

400

This is an item from the past that can be used by people as reference.

What is an artifact?
500
These are considered the four parts of any map.

What are the title, the map key (legend), scale, and compass rose.

500

This many years have passed between 2026 BCE & 2026 CE.

What is 4,052 years?

500

This is the process of maneuvering water from rivers to soil to help crops grow.

What is Irrigation?

500

These were the three natural barriers that helped protect Ancient Egypt.

What are cataracts, the Nile Delta, and deserts?

500

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible is referred to as this.

What is the Torah?

500

This is used to keep track of chonology.

What is a timeline?

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