5 Themes
Early Humans
Fertile Cresent
Ancient Egypt
Grab Bag
100
This Theme of geography answers the question Where is it?
What is Location
100
Time before written history
What is prehistory?
100
2 Rivers that are the rivers of life and death.
What is Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
100
There would be no Egypt without the...
What is Nile River.
100
Egyptian god of the dead
What is Anubis?
200
This is the exact degrees Longitude and Latitude and refers to someone's location
What is absolute location?
200
Period during which hominids made lasting tools mainly from stone.
What is the Stone Age?
200
giant Sumerian temple at the heart of the city
What is Ziggurat?
200
A large waterfall
What is a cataract.
200
Early form of paper made from the reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta
What is papyrus?
300
This type of map includes borders between countries and continents, states, and provinces. It also includes symbols for capitals, cities, and towns.
What is Political map?
300
A Person who has no settled home
What is a nomad?
300
First Code that established written laws
What is Hammurabi's code?
300
Called Kemet which literally meant the... Called this because of the silt.
What is Black Land.
300
A binding agreement, because of this the Israelites considered themselves God's chosen people.
What is a covenant?
400
This type of map represents what a region looks like by showing its major physical features. They often show elevation and relief.
What is Physical Map?
400
A term for a modern human or a member of an earlier group that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans
What is a hominid?
400
Culture that specialized in raging war. Invented the battering ram . Also known for hunting lions.
What is Assyria?
400
This famous pharaoh wore the false beard even though she was not a man.
What is Hatshepsut?
400
Major sea power between 1100 and 800 b.c. Their alphabet forms the basis of alphabets used in English and other languages.
What is Phoenicians?
500
This type of interaction focuses on the relationship between people and their environment.
What is Human-environmental interaction?
500
This age was characterized when artisans discovered how to melt a certain rock at high temperatures that would separate the metal copper from the rock. This made a new mixture that ancient peoples could now use to make tools.
What is Bronze Age?
500
Type of writing invented by the Sumarians
What is Cuneiform?
500
King Tut was the ruler during this Kingdom.
What is the new kingdom?
500
The scattering of a group of people.
What is diaspora?