Geography 1
Continent below North America
South America
Warmest ocean located between Africa and Australia
Indian Ocean
The type of government in the United States
Republic
The event that marks the beginning of human history
The Creation of Man
What is located at the top of a Ziggurat?
An alter
The diameter of the earth
8,000 miles
The circumference of the earth
25,000 miles
History is...
...the written record of mankind
Culture
The most important city in Sumer
Ur
The ocean that is the coldest and furthest north
Arctic Ocean
Ocean between the Americas and Africa/Asia
Atlantic Ocean
A large body of people who think themselves as one
Nation
A.D. means
"In the year of the Lord"
The southern part of Sumer
Chaldea
Imaginary line between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere
Equator
The hemisphere with more land area
Eastern Hemisphere
A belief based on fear and ignorance rather than truth
Superstition
The false idea of how man began
Evolution
This person's tomb revealed much about the Sumerian beliefs
Lady Shubad
Which hemisphere does six-sevenths of the worlds population live?
Eastern Hemisphere
The area between the equator and the North Pole is called the ___________ Hemisphere.
Northern Hemisphere
A ruler who comes into power by force
Dictator
Man's attempt to put himself equal to or greater than God
Humanism
powerful ruler of Ur who built it's ziggurat
Ur-Nammu