Geography
What is a map title?
The part of a map that gives you a general sense of what the map is showing you.
What is a shabti?
A shabti is a small doll that is carved and thought to turn into servants in the afterlife.
What was hunting and gathering?
Hunting and gathering was a tactic used by early humans to collect food.
Can someone become a pharaoh or is it passed down?
Becoming a pharaoh is hereditary.
What state of matter is the matter that stars are made of when they are first born?
What is a key or legend?
The part of the map that shows you what symbols pr colors represent.
The Book Of The Dead was a book that contained resources such as spells that were thought to help someone get to the afterlife.
What is an artifact?
An artifact is a human made object that can tell us something about the past.
Whats a peasant?
A peasant is someone who has the lease social status. It's biggest group on the pyramid, and typically peasants become farm workers, unless they can work their way up to become a scribe.
Whats are the four systems in which our planet is made of?
Atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere.
What are 4 examples of a physical feature?
Mountain, River, Deserts, Forests, Lakes, Plateaus, etc.
What are three examples pharaohs we learned about?
Pharaoh Hatshepsut
Pharaoh Sensuret the 3rd
Pharaoh Khufu
Pharaoh Ramses
What is irrigation?
A system that brings water from one source to another.
Example: Canals
What is status?
Status is a persons position or standing compared to someone else's, based on job, money, authority, or land ownership.
What is a neutron star?
When a star dies and cant overcome its own gravity so all it's matter is forced into a super dense substance about the width of a city and mad entirely out of neutrons.
Do lines of latitude run horizontally or vertically?
Horizontally
What were the three rivers in Ancient Egypt?
The Nile, Tigress, and Euphrades.
What is Prehistory?
A time before written records.
What did a government official do?
A gov. official often collected taxes and oversaw construction projects.
DOUBLE POINTS
What is a gravitational singularity?
A point at the center of a black hole where all the matter from the star got crushed into a single point of infinite density when the star died.
DOUBLE POINTS
What is a political map, physical map, and thematic map?
Political = shows boundaries of cities, states, etc.
Physical = shows physical features of a place.
Thematic = shows data across a certain place.
What were two parts of the mummification process?
Removal of organs, dehydration using natron salt, etc.
2.5 POINTS WAGER
Can you name all early hominins in order?
Habilis
Erectus
Neanderthalis
Sapiens.
TIP: It spells HENS
How does one become a scribe?
Scribes had to memorize things like hieroglyphs and long passages. They had to endure rigorous training and years of school, and scribe school was also very expensive.
What was the Big Bang?
The Big Bang was when all the matter in the known universe came together and then expanded. The acceleration then accelerated, and so on.