Geography Skills
Looking Into The Past
Early Cultures
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Mesopotamia
100
The imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the North and South Poles.
What is the equator?
100
A way of life of a group of people that includes their daily habits, beliefs, and arts.
What is their culture?
100
The thing man's first tools were made out of.
What is stone?
100
The system of writing developed by ancient Egyptians which used picture-signs for words, ideas, and sounds.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
An important invention of the Sumerians?
What are wheeled vehicles?
200
Distance north or south of the equator, measured by a set of imaginary lines that run east and west around Earth.
What is latitude?
200
Before writing was invented history was passed down by this method.
What is word of mouth?
200
Because people learned to make fires, they were able to do this.
What is survive in cold climates?
200
Where half the products made on a farm went to?
What is to the pharaoh in the form of taxes?
200
Two materials used by ancient Sumerians to write cuneiform.
What are sharp reed pens and wet clay tablets?
300
Lines of longitude are called this.
What are meridians?
300
The name of a person who digs up and explores past cultures.
What is an archaeologist?
300
The type of animal people in Border Cave hunted.
What are eland?
300
The basis for the ancient Egyptian economy.
What is agriculture or farming?
300
The two things that made farming in southern Mesopotamia difficult.
What are droughts and irregular floods?
400
The line of longitude marked 0 degrees on the world map, from which longitude east and west is measured.
What is the prime meridian?
400
Objects that were made by man and can tell us how people lived in the past.
What is an artifact?
400
People during the New Stone Age began to experiment with this.
What is agriculture?
400
The most fertile farmland in Egypt is found here.
What is the Nile Delta region?
400
The place where Sumerians went to worship a special god or goddess.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The study of Earth and how it shapes people's lives.
What is geography?
500
By using this "method" or test, archaeologists can tell how old something is.
What is carbon-14 dating?
500
The proof that the people in Catal Huyuk held religious beliefs.
What is one out of every three buildings was a temple?
500
The time when Egypt's early pharaohs worked to unite Egypt.
What is the Old Kingdom?
500
In the ancient world of the Fertile Crescent, the Israelites' religion was different because they believed in this.
What is only one God?
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