Vocab
This term means the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people.
What is culture?
This is the study of Earth's physical and cultural features.
What is geography?
A latin term used to date the years following the birth of Jesus Christ.
What is Anno Domini?
A journal entry written by someone who experienced an event is this type of source.
What is a primary source?
The equator is located at this degree of latitude.
What is 0 degrees?
These are objects created and used by humans.
What are artifacts?
Rivers, valleys, and mountains are examples of these.
What are landforms?
The Ancient Greeks were the first to establish this system of government.
What is Democracy?
A first-person account of an event recorded on pottery would interest historians because it is both a firsthand account and an example of this.
What is an artifact?
This type of historian studies the past by examining what people left behind, including their remains.
What is an archaeologist?
The weather conditions in a certain area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Early people would often look for a settlement location that provided easy access to this necessity.
What is water?
Around 5,000 years ago, people created this important method of recording information.
What is writing?
This is information from a source that historians can use to learn about the past.
What is evidence?
This part of a map explains what the symbols and colors on the map mean.
What is a key/legend?
These are materials or supplies that people can use to meet their needs.
What are resources?
The highest possible measurement of latitude.
What is 90 degrees?
This Mesopotamian ruler established the first recorded empire in history.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
A historian discovers that an author strongly favored one side of a conflict. What should the historian consider when evaluating the author's account?
What is bias?
This part of culture includes the words and communication system used by a group of people.
What is language?
This is the study of the past based on what people left behind, including their remains.
What is archaeology?
Physical features and locations can provide historians with clues about this.
What is the way people lived?
These two rivers run through what is called the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
All the writings of King Pyyrhus of Epirus have been lost, with only commentaries by later historians still existing. These commentaries are an example of this.
What is a secondary source?
This map feature shows the four main directions: north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?