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Geography
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Mesopotamia
Egypt 1
Egypt 2
100
The relationship between the distance on a map and the distance on the ground
What is "map scale"?
100
The number of years between 180BC - 50AD
What is 230 years?
100
The two rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
This is the reason pyramids were built
What are tombs?
100
Pharaohs were viewed by Egyptians as this
Who are GODS?
200
Connected or touching
What is contiguous
200
The number of decades between 400BC and 900 BC
What is 5 decades?
200
The current-day country where Mesopotamia was located
What is Iraq?
200
Scientists who study Ancient Egypt
Who are Egyptologists?
200
A waterfall in the Nile River
What is cataract?
300
A synonym for lines of latitude
What are parallels?
300
A.D. stands for
What is Anno Domini (Year of our Lord)
300
Known for his code of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The important discovery made that unlocked the key to hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
The pharaoh who united Upper & Lower Egypt
Who is Menes?
400
the line of latitude that divides the Earth into the Northern & Southern Hemispheres
What is Equator?
400
A person who makes maps
What is a cartographer
400
Mesopotamia is often called this
What is the "Fertile Crescent"?
400
The place where King Tut's tomb was found
What is the Valley of the Kings
400
The woman pharaoh who built the Egyptian economy and had a peaceful reign
Who is Hatshepsut?
500
The borders of the United States are shown on this type of map.
What is a political map?
500
Scientists who study human behavior
Who is an anthropologist?
500
3 achievements of Mesopotamian society
What is 12 month calendar, cuneiform writing, number system based on 60, wagon wheel, plow, sailboat, ziggurats, pottery, etc.
500
The unification of Upper & Lower Egypt was represented by this
What is the "double crown of Egypt"?
500
3 achievements of Egyptian society
What is hieroglyphic writing, medicine/physicians, number system based on 10, 365 day calendar, pottery, jewelry, irrigation, etc