Vocab
100 years
What is a Century?
I was the world's first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
Lines of Longitude measure ......
East and West
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is Irrigation
Canada is located on this continent
What is North America?
Belief in more than one god
What is Polytheism?
Civilization led by Hammurabi
What is Babylonia?
The equator is a line of ....
Latitude
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
The Tigris and Euphrates
Brazil is located on this continent
What is South America?
A deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth.
What is a Gulf?
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
Who are the Assyrians?
Lines of Latitude are also knows as
Parallels
Name the 5 Themes of Geography
Movement, Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, Place,
The Ocean to the East of North America
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Assyrian invention that made chariots lighter and faster than enemy chariots
What is the Spoke Wheel?
Which of the following gives location using latitude and longitude coordinates?
Relative Location or Absolute Location
Absolute Location
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
Fertile Crescent
You need to cross this to get to Australia
The Pacific Ocean
A flattened pyramid made of mud-brick which was an important religious place.
What is a Ziggurat?
In about 1000 BCE the Assyrians introduced this army that fights on horeseback
Lines of latitude are measured in degrees ranging from
What is 90 degrees N to 90 degrees S
Mesopotamia is located in which two modern countries?
Egypt and Iraq
Name all 7 continents and all 5 oceans
North America, South America, Australia, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe
Atlantic, Pacific, Southern, Arctic, Indian