Social Studies Basics
This subject studies people, places, and history.
What is social studies?
The Old Stone Age when people hunted animals and gathered plants.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
This civilization was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
This river helped Egyptian civilization grow and survive.
What is the Nile River?
This belief teaches that there is only one God.
What is monotheism?
A diary or tool made during the time period being studied is this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This term describes a creature that walks on two legs.
What is biped?
Mesopotamia is often called this because it was one of the first civilizations.
What is the Cradle of Civilization?
The ruler of ancient Egypt who was seen as a god-king.
Who is the pharaoh?
The leader who guided the Israelites out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
Mr. Sobel writes a book about Ancient Egypt long after an event is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
One of the earliest discovered hominids that walked upright.
Who is Lucy?
The first written set of laws based on the principal of an "eye for an eye."
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
Picture writing used by the ancient Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphs?
The journey in which the Israelites escaped slavery in Egypt.
What is the Exodus?
Monarchy is a type of government ruled by a king or queen. This is an example of which GRAPES category?
What is politics?
During this age, people began farming and living in villages.
What is the Neolithic Age?
Mesopotamians believed in many gods, which is called this.
What is polytheism?
This process preserved bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
The king who united Israel and made Jerusalem the capital.
Who is King David?
AD means “Anno Domini,” which tells us this about time.
What is the year of our Lord / after Jesus’ birth?
Early humans reached North America by crossing this land bridge.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Goods sent out of a place to be traded are called these.
What are exports?
amous boy king whose tomb was found mostly untouched.
Who is King Tut?
The land promised to the Israelites, also called the Promised Land.
What is Canaan?