Geography
On which continent are the Andes Mountains located?
What is South America
What is the definition of culture?
What is a total way of life
The region of fertile land most closely associated with civilizations such as Sumer and the Babylonian Empire
What is the Fertile Crescent
What were early peoples called who moved from place to place?
What are nomads
What is the mnemonic device for remembering the social sciences?
What is HEGSAAP
Which major body of water is nearest to the Indus-River Valley Civilization?
What is the Indian Ocean
What is cultural diffusion
A system of moving water from one place to another.
What is irrigation
Where did the early humans evolve and migrate out of?
What is Africa
This social scientist would discover and study artifacts.
What is an archeologist.
What is the name of the desert which stretches across Northern Africa?
What is the Sahara Desert.
This type of government is made up of a ruling class of elite people.
The belief that rulers were given the divine right to rule by the gods.
What is the mandate of heaven
A system of farming in which you only grow what is needed to feed you and your close ones.
What is subsistence farming
This social scientist studies the physical features of the world.
What is a geographer
Which of the 7 continents is largest by landmass
what is Asia
Judging other cultures based off the standards of ones own culture.
What is ethnocentrism
What is the name of the large pyramid shaped temples in early Mesopotamian cities like Ur?
What is ziggurat.
The term refers to the taming of plants and animals for human use.
What is domestication.
This social scientist would study the creation and distribution of wealth.
What is the small mountain passage through the Hindu Kush and Himalaya Mountains
What is the Khyber Pass
What is a type of economy in which the government controls the means of production.
What is a command economy
These cities had advanced drainage systems and grid like structures.
What are Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
What was the name given to the Australopithecus specimen found in Africa by Dr. Donald Johanson?
What is Lucy.
This social scientist would study the cultures and societies of various peoples.
What is an anthropologist