Greece
Map Skills
Bodies of Water
Geographical Features
Early Civilizations
100
This political activity in ancient Greece was a foundation for the democratic government of the United States.
What is citizens voting in elections.
100
This line of latitude divides the northern and southern hemispere.
What is equator?
100
This body of water is the world's longest river, which flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
100
This is why the ancient Greeks built the acropolis on a geographical high point.
What is to better defend their city?
100
This lifestyle describes the Paleolithic Age.
What is hunting and gathering?
200
The ancient Greek polis system that is similar to the government system in the United States.
What is people held the political power?
200
This grid on the map has a longitude of 0.
What is prime meridian?
200
These two bodies of water were most critical to the development of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
This geographical feature limited interaction between the ancient Chinese and Indus River Valley civilizations.
What is the Himalayan Mountains?
200
This age had a lifestyle based on farming and raising animals.
What is Neolithic Age?
300
This principle of the United States democracy comes from ancient Greece.
What is the right to vote?
300
This is the intermediate direction you would travel from Ethiopia
to the Caspian Sea.
What is northeast?
300
This is what the Nile river provided.
What is fertile soil for agriculture?
300
This geographic feature limited the interaction of the Yellow River Valley civilization
with the cultures to the north.
What is the Gobi Desert?
300
This was the impact that early civilizations had with agriculture.
What is forming larger societies?
400
This branch of the United States government most resembles the assembly of Ancient Greece civilization.
What is the legislative branch?
400
This is the coordinates of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
What is 35S, 58W?
400
This body of water was most important for the Romans to control territory in North Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This geographical feature effected the development of ancient Greece.
What is mountainous terrain resulting in growth of independent city-states?
400
This is why ancient civilizations flourished along river deltas.
What is fertile soil that was created along river deltas?
500
This was the idea that the Roman government contributed to democracy.
What is separation of powers?
500
This is the approximate distance between Palmyra and Kashgar.
What is 3,000 miles?
500
This is what encouraged the Romans to build the aqueducts.
What is lack of nearby water source that was preventing growth?
500
This physical geographical feature affected the development of ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian Civilizations.
What is river valleys provided fertile land enabling a surplus in agriculture?
500
This characteristic of early civilizations was most helpful to the ancient Egyptians when they were building pyramids.
What is advanced technology?