Paleolithic Vs. Neolithic
Geography
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Mixed
100
The name of people who traveled around a lot.
What is a nomad?
100
North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica are all....
What are continents?
100
The name of the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
The name of the the river valley the Egyptians settled near.
What is the Nile River?
100
The writing system used by Ancient Egyptians.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
Hunted and gathered to meet their basic need for food.
What is Paleolithic people?
200
Which continent is directly south of Europe?
What is Africa?
200
"The Cradle of Civilization"- an area of fertile land in Mesopotamia.
What is the fertile crescent?
200
the area of fertile soil where the Nile River meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is delta?
200
One negative of living in a river valley.
What is unpredictable flooding led to destroying of crops/shelter, no floods led to no crops and starvation, etc.
300
The Era that built mud-brick houses for shelter near their river valley.
What is Neolithic era?
300
Which two continents are one big landmass, sometimes considered Eurasia?
What is Europe and Asia?
300
An invention that helped with transporting goods on the Tigris/Euphrates Rivers
What is a sailboat?
300
The direction the Nile River flows.
What is north?
300
The main economy of the river valleys.
What is farming and trade?
400
The era for the Farming Revolution .
What is the Neolithic Era?
400
The direction people would travel to go from Asia to Europe.
What is West?
400
Writing system in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
400
The top of Ancient Egypt's Social Structure.
What are Pharaohs?
400
One positive of living in the river valley.
What is predictable flooding led to fertile soil/good farming, transportation, trading of goods, etc.
500
Results of the Farming Revolution.
What is trade, good supply of food, specialization of jobs, etc.
500
The direction that we would travel if we wanted to visit Europe from Syracuse.
What is East?
500
An invention that built dams, channels, and ditches to bring water to crops.
What is irrigation?
500
The reason why Egyptians mummified people.
What is the belief in afterlife, or life after death?
500
Reasons people chose to live next to river valleys.
What is good farming conditions, trading, staying in one spot to build communities, etc.
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