Knowledge
Geography
Vocabulary
People
Vocabulary part 2
100

A display on a map to show direction. (North, South, East & West)

Compass Rose

100

The land that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Mesopotamia

100

What is the vocabulary world for the belief in many gods?

Polytheism


100

Which famous sixth king of Babylon created a set of laws named after him that changed the way people were punished—from paying money to getting physical punishments instead?

Hammurabi

100

Ancient China traded silk and spices on this famous trade route.

Silk road

200

What does the P in Mr. Help stand for?


Place

200

The world's longest river that is more than 4,000 miles long?

Nile River

200

What is a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group called?

Dynasty

200

A society that sent children away from their family at age seven to attend military training.

Sparta

200

About 2,000 years before the Egyptians started using it, the Chinchorro people of Chile came up with which process for preserving their dead?

Mummification

300

What does PUKE stand for when annotating?

Paragraphs numbered, Underline Main Idea, Key Words Circled, Evidence Highlighted

300

What is the method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops?

Irrigation

300

Cities that acted as independent countries with its own government, laws and customs are known as?


City-States

300

A king ruled the ancient country of Egypt. What was the title he used?

Pharoah

300

The belief that rulers get their power from the gods is called this...

Mandate of Heaven.

400

Telling where one place is by referring to another place. For example: The Flagship Cinema is across the street from Dorman's Ice Cream. (HINT * there are two different location types)

Relative location

400

Greece is located on this type of landform, surrounded by water on 3 sides.

Peninsula

400

A type of government in which means "rule of people."

Democracy

400

These people wrote using hieroglyphics and kept records.

Scribes

400

In ancient China, priests used turtle shells or animal bones heated until they cracked to ask questions and predict the future. What were these objects called?

Oracle Bones

500

Greece is a part of what continent?

Europe 

500

This monument was built in a large country in Asia, to protect the country from enemy invasions, to control inmigration and to protect the merchants of the silk trade. What is its name?

Great Wall of China

500

What is the Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings?

cuneiform

500

This Chinese philosopher taught about respect and order.

Confucius

500

These skilled artists decorated tombs and monuments. (Using their hands)

Artisans