GEOGRAPHY/MAPS
True or false: The Prime Meridian divides the world into eastern and western hemispheres
True
Following herds of animals.
Before the Neolithic Revolution, humans were __________, which means they moved around from place to place.
Nomadic
Types of this characteristic of civilization include painting, pottery, sculpture, music, theater, and architecture.
Art
This term means something good about a new place that makes you want to move there.
Pull factor
These are the four cardinal directions on the map.
North, east, south, and west.
These are reasons that you might want to leave the place you are currently living in.
Push factor.
The Neolithic Revolution refers to when humans began doing what?
Farming/agriculture
This characteristic of civilization refers to who the leaders are and what the laws are.
Government
This word refers to people who stay in one place and do not move around for their food.
Sedentary
This component of a map tells us what the map is showing us.
The title.
Most of the tools in the Paleolithic era were made for this purpose.
Hunting.
After the Neolithic Revolution, people could specialize in different jobs because why?
Farmers produced a surplus of food, so not everyone ahd to focus on getting food for a living.
This characteristic of civilization refers to having many connected cities.
Urban settlements
This tells us how distances on a map compare to distances in the actual place depicted by the map.
Scale
This component of a map tells us how to read the map, it UNLOCKS the map.
The key/legend.
The Paleolithic era and the Neolithic era mean the Old and New _______ ________.
Stone Age.
People started making permanent buildings after the Neolithic Revolution because why?
They were staying in one place.
Name three specialized jobs that were created after the Neolithic Revolution.
Farmer, potter, craftspeople, priest, king, soldier, government official, professional chariot racer, merchant
This is the event that occured 12,000 years ago in which humans discovered farming and settled down into larger communities based around agriculture.
The Neolithic Revolution
____________ is something made by humans, ____________ is something made by nature.
Human characteristics, physical characteristics.
Hunter-gatherers typically lived longer than farmers because why?
Hunter-gatherers had a more nutritious diet, and fewer diseases from domesticated animals.
What is one reason people made pottery after the Neolithic Revolution?
To store food/make art
This characteristic of civilization refers to how people rank themselves in society.
This term refers to the art and science of creating buildings.
Architecture