map Skills/Geography
What are the cardinal directions?
North,East,South,West
How did Old Stone Age get food?
What is another word for the Old Stone Age?
They got food by hunting or fishing
Another word is paleothic
What is the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers called?
Why is it called this?
Its called the fertile crescent because, it had very rich soil, and created silt.
Who was responsible for the first written law code?
Describe what these laws where like?
Hammurabi,created these criminal laws.Such as an eye for an eye or an ear for a ear.
What content is Egypt located on?
Africa
What are the lines of latitude and longitude
There imaginary lines going east to west
There lines going north to south
How did people in the new stone Age get food?
What is another word for the new stone Age?
They got food by domestication,trade and growing crops.
Another word is the Neolithic age.
what Continent is Mesopotamia on?
West Asia
What does the word polytheistic mean?
It means a belief in one god
Define Theocracy.
What power did the Pharaohs posses and why were they so powerful and respected by all?
Theocracy is governed by a government that in power by a government that is powered by another government.But theocracy is respected by all because theocracy is also the religion leader.Total power.
How many continents are there?
Name all of them
There is 7 continets
North America,South America,Asia,Europe,Australia,Antarctica,Africa.
What is a nomad?
A nomad is someone who can't stay in one place and had to move to stay in one place.
Name a few Sumerian inventions.
Sail boat,cuneiform,wheel,irrigation,chariot,wooden plow,bronze
How were the Israelite different from the Mesopotamian.
The Mesopotamia's were lazy about there behavior,believing that instead the gods took action based off a persons attention.
Share achievements of Narmer or Menes
Narmer unified Egypt and founder of the first Dynasty.And in the term of the first King of Egypt.
What is a primary source?
What is a secondary source?
A primary source is a first hand account of an event.
A secondary source is a written or created after the original event or moment in time.
What is domestication?
What is surplus?
Domestication is when you tame animals to help them farm and get more work done, for human use.
Surplus is when you have to much of something,and that's from domestication,and surplus is the reason for specialization.
how did the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates river help people in Mesopotamia?
By giving them fertile soil,irrigation,and lots of water.
The people of Judah...
Were enslaved and taken to Babylonia.
Describe the ancient Egypt social structure.
lower class-enslaved people,unskilled workers.Middle class-farmers merchants scribes.Upper class-Army, priests.Ruler-Pharaoh and his family.
In a timeline and computing between two events that are the SAME you?
In a timeline and computing between two events that are DIFFERENT you?
When you are the same you subtract.
And when they are different you add.
What is systematic agriculture?
Systematic agriculture is planting and growing crops.
What does G.R.A.P.E.S stand for?
It stands for Geography,Religion,achievements,economics,and Social Structure.
In BCE the conquered the Chaldeans
In 53BCE the Persians conquered the Chaldeans.
Why did people study the stars?
They did because of there colander and growing crops.Also its there source of light.