Maps
Which part of a map helps you find the cardinal point of a place.
compass rose
Which imaginary line divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?
Equator
Where do historians think early man originated?
Africa or East Africa
What does surplus mean?
having more than enough
Which of the following beliefs was central to Egyptian religion?
The afterlife
Scale or Scale Bar
Which imaginary line divides the Earth into the eastern and western hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
The study of the past based on what people left behind
archaeology
People who gathered wild food and hunted animals to survive
hunters-gatherers
Whose tomb was discovered in 1922?
King Tut or King Tutankhamen
This tells you what each symbol on a map stands for.
a Key or a Legend
A Mercator Map is what shape?
a rectangle
Homohabilis was also known as...
handy man
People who have no single home and travel from place to place
nomads or nomadic people
mesopotamia means or translates to what?
"the land between the rivers"
On which two hemispheres do we live on?
Northern and Western
An imaginary line or meridian measuring east or west of the prime meridian.
longitude
Which species or hominid first used fire?
homoerectus
Curved strip of land that runs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
fertile crescent
A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines. It originated in Mesopotamia.
cuneiform
Which maps divides boundaries or borders, and shows roads?
Political Map
A way of showing the curved surface of the Earth is called
Map Projection or a Projection Map
The time before written record.
pre-history
What are the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
Hammurabi