Geography
What are the intermediate directions?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, & Southwest.
What was the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers called?
The Fertile Cresent.
What is a surplus?
Having more than enough of something, like food, or materials.
Who is Howard Carter?
A British archaeologist who discovered King Tut's tomb.
What is the map title used for?
Tells what the map is about, revealing the map's purpose and content.
How many years are in a century?
100
What does polytheistic mean?
The belief in many gods and goddesses.
What is another name for the Neolithic Age?
The New Stone Age.
Who was at the top of the social pyramid? Name the two most popular ones.
Pharaohs and Viziers.
What's a compass rose?
A symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions.
What are the lines of latitude also known as?
Parallels.
Mesopotamia is located in Africa. True or false?
False, Mesopotamia is located in Asia.
What is a specialization?
When individuals in a society began to focus on specific tasks or skills.
What is a person who could read and write called in Egypt?
What is a map scale used for?
To determine the actual distance between locations on a map.
What are the lines of longitude also known as?
Meridians.
How are the Israelite's and the Mesopotamian's different?
Israelite's are monotheistic, and the Mesopotamian's are polytheistic.
The wheel, the wooden plow, and cuneiform, are all inventions made by...
The Sumerian people.
Who was Hatsheput's nephew, who became a pharaoh after her death?
Thutmose III.
When computing the number of years between two events in the same time period, you must subtract or add the two number?
Subtract.
The Nile Delta.
What were the most popular specialized jobs in Egypt?
Scribes, artists, and astrologers.
Who was responsible for the first written law code?
Hammurabi.
What is a bureaucrat?
Government officials that carried out the pharaoh's orders.
Flows north from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea.
The Nile River.