Belief Systems
Leaders and Government
Geography and Environment
Economics
Ancient Civilization
100

Believing in many gods.

What is polytheistic

100

The male head of a family or tribe.

What is patriarch.

100

An area that gets less than 10 inches of rain annually.

What is a desert.

100

A job or profession.

What is an occupation.

100

The ancient land located between the Tigris and Euphrates River.

What is Mesopotamis.

200

Believing in only one god.

What is monotheistic

200

The female head of a family or tribe.

What is matriarchy.

200

A system of bringing water to crops in dry areas.

What is irrigation.

200

A form of money used for trade.

What is currency.

200

What all humans were before the Agricultural Revolution.

What are nomads.

300

A type of government lead by religious leaders.

What is theocracy.

300

A system of managing government through departments and non-elected officials.

What is a bureaucracy.


300

An area that is very dry.

What is arid.

300

The type of farming where you raise crops and animals for your own needs.

What is subsistence farming.

300

A method early civilizations used to manage water in dry areas.

What is irrigation.

400

The belief that what you do in this life affects your next life.

What is karma.

400

A society in which the government controls both the religion and laws of the land.

What is a theocracy.

400

When a place is separated from others, making it difficult to connect with or reach.

What is isolated.

400

The type of farming where you raise crops or animals specifically to sell.

What is cash crop farming.

400

Early farmers often settled by the rivers because the soil was ______________ because of the flooding waters..

What is Fertile.

500

The belief that your soul is reborn into another entity after you die.

What is reincarnation

500

The head of the ancient Egyptian government.

What is a pharaoh.

500

People who moved from place to place looking for resources.

What are nomads.

500

The raising of crops and/or animals.

What is agriculture.

500

Once humans discovered farming, it allowed them to stay ________________.

What is in one place.