Knowledge
A display on a map to show direction. (North, South, East & West)
Compass Rose
The land that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Mesopotamia
What is the vocabulary world for the belief in many gods?
Polytheism
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
Ancient China traded silk and spices on this famous trade route.
Silk road
What does the P in Mr. Help stand for?
Place
The world's longest river that is more than 4,000 miles long?
Nile River
What is a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group called?
Dynasty
A society that sent children away from their family at age seven to attend military training.
Sparta
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
What does PUKE stand for when annotating?
Paragraphs numbered, Underline Main Idea, Key Words Circled, Evidence Highlighted
What is the method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops?
Irrigation
Cities that acted as independent countries with its own government, laws and customs are known as?
City-States
A king ruled the ancient country of Egypt. What was the title he used?
Pharoah
The belief that rulers get their power from the gods is called this...
Mandate of Heaven.
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
Greece is located on this type of landform, surrounded by water on 3 sides.
Peninsula
A type of government in which means "rule of people."
Democracy
These people wrote using hieroglyphics and kept records.
Scribes
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
Greece is a part of what continent?
Europe
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
What is the Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings?
cuneiform
This Chinese philosopher taught about respect and order.
Confucius
These skilled artists decorated tombs and monuments. (Using their hands)
Artisans