Ancient Egypt
Mesopotamia
Stone Age
5 Themes of Geography
Vocabulary
100
Ancient Egyptians made this out of a type of water reed that would grow by the Nile.
What is papyrus?
100
An extra supply.
What is a surplus?
100
A person who travels from place to place with no permanent home.
What is a nomad?
100
The imaginary lines that circle the Earth in a north/south pattern.
What are longitide lines?
100
The preserved,dead bodies of ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
What are mummies?
200
A professional writer whom is part of the small minority with a formal education.
What is a scribe?
200
A succsession of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
200
A person who hunts for meat and gathers wild foods to feed themselves.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
200
The total number of people living in an area.
What is population?
200
A god or goddess of a polythiestic religion.
What is a deity?
300
A stone pillar with a triangular tip usually used as a monument or landmark.
What is an obelisk?
300
The taming of a wild animal or crop.
What is domestication?
300
A large powerful, territory consisting of many different places under the control of a single ruler.
What is an empire?
300
A natural feature of Earth's surface,such as valleys, plains, or hills.
What is landform?
300
The act of moving from one place to another.
What is migration?
400
An Egyptian form of writing based on pictures.
What are hieroglyphics?
400
A form of wedge-shaped writing invented by the Mesopotamians in ancient times.
What is cuniform?
400
The practice of specializing in a certain job.
What is specialization?
400
The exact coordinate location of an object.
What is absolute location?
400
A large waterfall or sudden rush of water.
What is a cataract?
500
A time in ancient Egypt that contained the eleventh through sixteenth dynasties.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
500
A set of laws set by established during the Mesopotamian times.
What is the Hammurabi Code?
500
The "new" and ending period of the Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic era?
500
Any way people modify, adapt to, or destroy the natural enviorment around them.
What is human-enviorment interaction?
500
The male head of a family or tribe.
What is a patriarch?
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