5 Themes of Geography
This theme of geography includes the terms RELATIVE & ABSOLUTE.
What is Location?
This is the term for spreading culture from one place to another.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The term for people who move from place to place in search of food.
Who were Nomads?
King of the Babylonians. made a law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
This city-state has 2 Kings.
What is Sparta?
This theme has students describe the Physical Characteristics and Human/Cultural Characteristics.
What is Place?
This element of culture included people speaking to each other and communicating.
What is Language?
The name of the natural land formation that allowed early humans to get to North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
A phrase that best describes Hammurabi's Code
What is "an eye for an eye?"
This city-state had a trade focus to gain the resources and wealth they wanted and needed.
What is Athens?
These are the 5 Themes of Geography, learned in the very first unit.
What is Location, Place, Human Environment Interaction, Region, & Movement?
This is known as a place were cultural norms, and beliefs begin.
What is a Cultural Hearth?
The term for the period before we could record the things that happened in the past.
What is Prehistory?
The other river besides the Tigris that Mesopotamia was located between.
What is the Euphrates River?
This king brought peace back to Sparta after 20 years of chaos.
Who is Lycurgus?
This theme of geography has students examine how information, goods, and people get around and the impact of that.
What is Movement?
This element may include social pyramids
What is Social Organization?
The major shift that allowed early humans to settle in one place, started farming more.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This empire was known for being powerful warriors.
Who were the Assyrians?
This group had less power than the Kings, but more power than the citizens and Helots. They are also known as a Council of Elders.
What are Spartiates?
What is Human Environment Interaction?
Ms. Wright has always said, "a holiday is always a tradition, but a tradition is not always a holiday." What element of culture is this related to?
What is Traditions and Values?
The transition of animals from wild to tame.
What is Domestication?
This group made tons of trading stations and did not farm on their homeland.
Who were the Phoenicians?
This type of government started in Athens, and included the people voting to make decisions.
What is Direct Democracy?