map skills/geography
What are the cardinal directions?
North, South, East, West
What is another name for Old stone age?
Paleolithic age
What continent is mesopotamia on?
Asia
What does the word monotheistic mean?
Belief in one god.
What continent is Egypt on?
Africa
What are the intermediate directions?
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What is another name for New Stone Age?
Neolithic Age
What does polytheistic mean?
Belief in one god.
True or false: the isrealites were polytheistic.
False, they were monotheistic.
What geographical feature (or natural barrier) protected Egypt from invasions in the north?
The mediterranian Sea
What is a map title used for?
Describes the purpose of the map.
What is surplus?
More of a resource than is needed to survive.
Name at least 3 sumerian inventions.
Wheel, sailboat, wooden plow, bronze, ect.
What is a secondary resource.
Information collected not present at the event.
Why did the people of ancient Egypt study the stars?
To understand the cycle of the Nile River.
What is the definition of a primary sourse.
A first hand thing
Describe how Old Stone Age people got their food.
They hunted and gathered.
When reading a timeline and computing the number of years between two events in the SAME time period you must ________.
Subtract the two numbers.
What is an example of a secondary resource?
A replica of the Mona Lisa, a biography, ect.
Explain the role religion played in ancient egyptian life.
It shaped their government, daily activities, and world veiw.
What is the most famous line of latitude?
The Equator
What is domestication?
To tame or train animals for human use.
What is a primary source.
A first hand thing.
How were the Isrealites different form the mesopotamians and ancient civilization?
The Isrealits were monotheistic and everybody else was polytheistic.
Describe the ancient Egyptian social class pyramid.
Upper class: pharaoh and family, Nobels and preists.
Middle class: Scribes, artisans and craftsmen
Lower Class: farmers, unskilled people, and slaves.