Map skills/Geography
What are the 7 continents?
North America, South America, Asia Europe, Australia, Antarctica
What is a nomad? Why were the paleolithic people nomads?
People who move place-to-place to find food. They had to go where they could find food.
What does GRAPES stand for?
Geography, Religion, Achievements, Economics, Social Structure
What form of religion were the Israelites?
The were Monotheistic
Who was at the top of the social pyramid?
Pharaoh and their families
What are the cardinal and intermediate directions?
North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
How did the New Stone Age people get food?
They learnt to produce food by growing it
What does the word polytheistic mean? What does the word Monotheistic mean?
Polytheistic means the belief in many gods. Monotheistic means the belief in one God.
What continent is Egypt located on?
Africa
What is a primary source vs a secondary source?
A primary source is a first hand piece of evidence, like a diary or letters, a secondary source is a second-hand account, like models or textbooks
What is the meaning of surplus?How did it effect the lives of the early people?
Having more of a resource than needed to survive. They had the ability to settle in one place, the had extra supplies to trade with, and it provided them food
What was the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers called? Why was it called this?
It was called the Fertile Crescent. It was called this because when the Rivers flooded, the silt washed over the land and made it very good for farming.
What protected invasions in the North? What in the South? What in the East and West?
In the North it was the Nile Delta, In the South it was the cataracts, and in the East and the west it was deserts
what are the lines of longitude? What are the lines of latitude?
Lines of latitude are imaginary lines that run parallel, the most famous line of latitude is the equator. Lines of longitude are imaginary lines that run North to South, the most famous line of longitude is the Prime Meridian.
What is domestication? How did it help the early humans?
To train animals and/or plants for human use, it made farming and other tasks easier
Name some Sumerian inventions
Cuneiform, wheel, sailboat, wooden plow, bronze
When computing the number of years between two events in the SAME time period you must...
subtract the two numbers
What is systematic agriculture? How did this change the lives of the early humans?
The organized growing of food on a regular basis. They were able to stay in one place growing food.
Who was responsible for the first written law code?
Hammurabi