Foundations of Geography
What is the term for lines measuring distance North or South of the Equator?
What is Latitude?
This is the primary consequence of the Agricultural Revolution.
What is a surplus of food (leading to specialized labor)?
This is the term for a Greek city-state.
What is a Polis?
This term means the belief in one God, shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
Relative Location is described by using these.
What are Nearby Landmarks?
This Babylonian king established a major written law code that dealt with daily life.
Who is Hammurabi?
This is the name for the period of relative peace and economic prosperity in the Roman Empire.
What is the Pax Romana?
This Hindu belief is defined as "soul rebirth," or coming back to life as another creature.
What is Reincarnation?
This is a social group into which someone is born, a characteristic of Hinduism.
What is a Caste (or Caste System)?
The five themes of geography are Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and this.
What is Region?
This civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known as the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
In Athenian democracy, the only people eligible to vote were these.
What are All adult male citizens?
The Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths are core beliefs of this religion.
What is Buddhism?
This holy city of Islam, besides Mecca, is called
What is Medina?
This is the theme described by the development of interstate roads, which is a change in infrastructure.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This river valley civilization, located at C on the map, is still largely unknown because it never developed a writing system.
What is the Indus Valley (Civilization)?
Sparta's educational system primarily focused on this, while Athens focused on intellectual exploration.
What is Military training and physical discipline?
This is the holy book of Islam, which is equivalent to the Torah in Judaism.
What is the Koran (Qur'an)?
The Vedas and the Upanishads are the sacred writings of this religion.
What is Hinduism?
This ocean borders the east coast of the Americas and the west coast of Africa and Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The main purpose for the emergence of early writing systems was this.
What is to Keep track of economic transactions and laws?
This factor, most significantly contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is Internal political instability and external invasions?
This holy book of Judaism is not used by Christianity or Islam
What is the Torah?
This Pillar of Islam is the pilgrimage to Mecca, a journey that every physically and financially able Muslim must complete once in their life.
What is the Haj?