A display on a map to show direction. (North, South, East & West)
What is a compass?
100
The period of time before written language.
What is prehistory?
100
The two rivers that ran through Mesopotamia that allowed for trade and battles to occur.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
The world's longest river that is more than 4,000 miles long?
What is the Nile River?
100
An ancient form of Greek government which means "rule of people" still used today in places like the United States.
What is Democracy?
200
Location, Region, Movement, Place and Human-Environment Interaction (MRHELP).
What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
200
People who roam from place to place while hunting and gathering.
What are nomads?
200
Babylonian ruler who set down a code of cruel, organized laws for people follow.
Who was Hammurabi?
200
A series of rulers from the same family, considered royalty, which passes down from generation to generation.
What is a Dynasty?
200
Cities that acted as independent countries with its own government, laws and customs.
What are city-states?
300
Absolute Location and Relative Location which are measured in degrees on the map, horizontally and vertically.
What is Latitude and Longitude?
300
The names of the two Stone Ages.
What are the Old Stone Age (Paleolithic) and the New Stone Age (Neolithic)?
300
An early form of writing that used a combination of wedges and lines around 3100 B. C.
What is Cuneiform?
300
Egyptian form of writing using symbols to represent things and ideas
What are Hieroglyphics?
300
Two famous City States- One known for it's strength the other for it's intelligence.
What are Athens and Sparta?
400
Telling where one place is by referring to another place. For example: My house is by Garcia's and El Mezquite.
What is relative location?
400
The time when people no longer had to hunt and gather because they could plant crops (farm), domesticate animals, and settle in one place.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
400
Places for worshiping the gods, centered in the center of cities, where priests could pray and offer foods or sacrifices.
What are Ziggurat Temples?
400
Major trade route in China that spread throughout the Asian continent, full of dangers and extreme weather conditions. Many expensive items were taken on this route.
What is the Silk Road?
400
The 3 Branches of Government that make the laws, make sure you obey the law, and that judges you if you commit crimes and break the laws.
The Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial Branches.
500
The number of continents and oceans and their names.
What are 7 continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica) and 5 oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Arctic, Indian).
500
Migrating people started to settle their civilizations in these areas because they could farm and develop cities.
What are River Valleys?
500
The first known epic myth from Ancient Sumeria (Mesopotamia) about the adventures of a king and his friend Enkidu.
What is What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
Chinese philosopher that focused on unifying Chinese society and influenced people with ideas of family, societal, and government values.