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Geography
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King Hammy
BIG concepts
Phar-a-nuff
100
There are seven of these huge land masses on our planet.
  • A. cities
  • B. Countries
  • C. Democracies
  • D. Continents
Continent
100
Historians use this word to describe highly advanced societies.
  • A. aliens
  • B. America
  • C. civilization
  • D. Cities
civilization?
100
Hammurabi was king over this city.
  • A. Cairo
  • B. Babylon
  • C. Jerusalem
  • D. Baghdad
Babylon?
100
This idea means that everyone involved benefits.
  • A. common good
  • B. social structure
  • C. socialism
  • D. democracy
What is the common good?
100
Clay tablets were too heavy to carry around, so Egytians made this to write on.
  • A. notebook paper
  • B. metal coins
  • C. cloth
  • D. papyrus
papyrus?
200
Map readers must use this to understand symbols given on a map.
  • A. compass rose
  • B. latitude
  • C. map key
  • D. prime meridian
What is a map key?
200
Most civilizations began in these geographic areas.
  • A. mountains
  • B. river valleys
  • C. beaches
  • D. subway systems
What are river valleys?
200
The rich soil in this land made Babylonia a very wealthy, successful kingdom.
  • A. Fertile Crescent
  • B. Nile Delta
  • C. Ganges River
  • D. Danube River Valley
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Although they may not realize it, people actually need these in order to be truly free.
  • A. Divine rule of kings
  • B. Rules or laws
  • C. A strong military
  • D. A fertile river valley
What are rules or laws?
200
Historians had no clue how to read hieroglyphics until they found this to help.
  • A. Rosetta Stone
  • B. Dictionary Rock
  • C. Daisy Pebble
  • D. Tulip Slab
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
We use this word to describe half of our globe.
  • A. equator
  • B. hemisphere
  • C. Prime meridian
  • D. Tropic of Capricorn
What is a hemisphere?
300
Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics are both examples of this important element of civilization.
  • A. sandwiches
  • B. written language
  • C. types of government
  • D. river valleys
What is a written language?
300
Hammurabi was the first to write this to improve the justice system
  • A. novel
  • B. newspapers
  • C. code of laws
  • D. bible
What is a code of laws?
300
This theory holds that you receive the protection of a group by giving up some individual freedoms.
  • A. social contract
  • B. common good
  • C. popular sovereignty
  • D. evolution
What is social contract?
300
This practice was overseen by the god Anubis and teaches historians what Egyptians believed about the afterlife.
  • A. mummification
  • B. sacrifice
  • C. voodoo
  • D. funerals
What is mummification?
400
Geographers use these two lines to find absolute location on a map.
  • A. parking lot and surveyor
  • B. longitude and latitude
  • C. long lines and short lines
  • D. ley lines and clothes lines
What is longitude and latitude?
400
This could also be called a "hierarchy" since it organizes people into classes or ranks.
  • A. social structure
  • B. family tree
  • C. middle school
  • D. military
What is social structure?
400
Hammurabi wasn't the only ruler to claim this as his authority to rule.
  • A. divine right or mandate of heaven
  • B. popular vote
  • C. military order
  • D. voluntary order
What is "divine right" or "mandate of heaven"?
400
In a government run by this principle, the people hold the power to make changes.
  • A. social contract
  • B. common good
  • C. popular sovereignty
  • D. evolution
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This pharaoh dressed like a man to be accepted.
  • A. Hammurabi
  • B. Hatshepsut
  • C. King Phillip
  • D. Helen of Troy
What is Who was Hatshepsut?
500
Geographers use this type of map to find cities and man-made boundaries.
  • A. topographical map
  • B. political map
  • C. physical map
  • D. population density
What is a political map?
500
This shows how a society trades, produces, and uses resources.
  • A. social order
  • B. economy
  • C. capitalism
  • D. socialism
What is economy?
500
Although sometimes unfair, the first code of laws was based on this principle.
  • A. eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
  • B. trial by jury
  • C. military order
  • D. execution by hanging
What is "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"?
500
This word means people work together and cooperate.
  • A. conflict
  • B. common good
  • C. chaos
  • D. collaboration
What is collaboration?
500
These Egyptians are found near the top of the social structure due to their education in writing.
  • A. peasants
  • B. artisans
  • C. pharaoh
  • D. scribes
What are scribes?