Geography
The study of the Earth
What is geography?
Mesopotamia was found in this region of the world
What is the Middle East?
Egypt is located on this continent
What is Africa?
The study of human history using excavation and artifacts
What is archeology?
China is located on this continent
What is Asia?
The lines that pinpoint exactly where you are on a map
What is longitude and latitude?
There are two major rivers in Mesopotamia: the Tigris and
What is the Euphrates?
This major river would flood and leave fertile soil for Egyptian farmers
What is the Nile River?
Otzi the Iceman was probably killed with this weapon
What is an arrow?
The Huang He has many names; two of them are "China's Sorrow" and the ________________ because of the soil
What is Yellow River?
The imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth
What is the equator?
His code was possibly the first written law in history
Who is Hammurabi?
These important people were buried inside of the pyramids; their bodies mummified
Who are the pharaohs?
Lucy helped us figure out that our ancestors did this before developing larger brains
What is walking upright?
Qin Shi Huangdi is responsible for building one of the most famous sites in China
What is the Great Wall?
The 5 Themes of Geography: Movement, Region, Location, Place, ___________
What is Human Environment Interaction? (HEI)
Mesopotamians worshipped the gods in these temples
What are ziggurats?
The first language of the Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics?
Otzi was discovered here by some German hikers in the 1990s
The Otztal Alps
It is said that when a dynasty is corrupt, it loses this: ____________________; without it, they cannot rule
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The process of land becoming dry
What is desertification?
This group of people were at the top of Mesopotamia's social hierarchy
Who are kings?
The Egyptians invented this system of measurement
What is the cubit?
Lucy was the oldest of this species
What is a hominid?
The yin and yang come from this Chinese belief system
What is Daoism?