Five Fabulous Themes: General Geography
The major line associated with longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The name of the 40% intact hominid skeleton found in East Africa.
What is "Lucy"?
The "New Stone Age."
What is the Neolithic Age?
A complex, highly organized social order.
What is a civilization?
Groups of states/territories controlled by one ruler.
What are empires?
The Five Themes of Geography.
What are Location, Place, Human-environment interaction, Movement & Region?
Early statues & sculptures depicted ___________.
What are pregnant women?
The prehistoric ancestor to the domesticated cow.
What is an auroch?
The four major rivers where the earliest civilizations arose.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates, Nile, Indus & Huang He rivers?
The ancient form of writing that emerged in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
Place is described in terms of ___________ & ___________.
What are physical features & human characteristics?
The study of the origins of people & their societies.
What is anthropology?
The four types of plants which were ground down to make flour for baking.
What are wheat, oats, barley & rye?
The location of the early Aztec & Mayan civilizations.
What are the highlands?
The three remaining city-states in our contemporary world.
What are Vatican City, Monaco & Singapore?
The period before people developed systems of writing.
What is Prehistory?
The definition of animism.
What is an early religious belief system that stated that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects or dreams?
The definition of culture.
What is the way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience?
Four examples of public works/infrastructure.
What are irrigation systems, roads, bridges & defensive walls?
The group of people who were excluded from being scribes.
Who are women?
Regions are areas of the world that are divided by…
What are physical characteristics, politics, economics & cultures?
The names of the couple who discovered bone pieces in Tanzania.
Who are Mary & Louis Leakey?
The three ways life changed for New Stone Age peoples.
What are they learned how to farm, they learned how to domestic animals & they created new technologies?
The eight features of civilization.
What are cities, well-organized central governments, complex religions, job specialization, social class, art & architecture, public works & writing?
The definition of cultural diffusion.
What is the spread of ideas, customs & technologies from one people to another?