Geography & Culture
What shape is the Earth? (Remember PLIRM: Place, Location, Interaction between people and the environment, Religion, and Movement)
What is a sphere
What invention started the Neolithic Revolution?
What is agriculture or farming
Which group of Middle Eastern people(s) were not polythestic
Who are the Israelites
What is the definition of audience?
What is the readers the original text is meant for
I.e., A textbook is for students, a letter is meant for a specific person, etc.
This group was the first European civilization
Who were the Minoans
Define: Purpose (When writing a document)
What is the reason the text is written
What was the time period before the Neolithic where people hunted and gathered
What is the Paleolithic Period
What early civilization, the first to make an empire, was ruled by Sargon
Who are the Akkadians
What is one of the two theories of migration to the Americas
What is the land bridge theory & What is the costal migration theory
What was the term used to describe Greek settlements including an agora, acropolis, and polis?
What is a city-state
What line of Latitude splits the world in two North, South Hemispheres?
What continent had the first human remains and artifacts been found?
What is Africa
What were the ruling families that Pharaohs came from?
What is a dynasty
What was an Incan system of recording information through tying knots in pieces of string?
What is a Quipu
What blind poet wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Who is Homer
How many continents are there? What continent is North Boone on?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What was the papyrus plant used to make?
What is paper?
What did the Mississippian peoples build to construct temples and important buildings on top of?
What is earthen mounds
What was the first type of government in Ancient Greece?
What is monarchy?
What is ethnicity?
What sort of rules govern the way people deal with legal issues in a civilization? (A type of law)
What is civil laws
What were the three periods of Egypt known as?
What are the old (Pyramid age), middle, and new (Empire age) kingdoms
Which city exists today where the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was in the past?
What is Mexico City
What type of government is led by a small group of wealthy elites?
What is an oligarchy
Types of government to remember: Monarchy, Democracy, Oligarchy