Geography
Early Humans
Mesopotamia/Israelites
Egypt
Map Skills/SS Concepts
100

What are the intermediate directions?

Northeast,Northwest,Southeast,Southwest

100

What is another name for the old stone age.

The paleolithic age

100

How were the Israelites different from Mesopotamians and other civilizations.

They were monotheistic

100

Why did Egyptians make the pyramids.

To be tombs for the pharaohs and to protect them from animals, robbers, and floods.

100

What are the cardinal directions?

North, South, east, and west

200

What is the map scale used for?

It is a unit of measure such as an inch to measure distances on a map.

200

How would people in the old stone age get food.

They would hunt and gather.

200

Who was responsible for the first written law code and what were the punishments like.

Hammurabi; they were harsh

200

Describe how the Nile River affected life in ancient Egypt.

It helped them farm, bathe, trade, travel, drink,protection,

200

What are the lines of longitude?

Imaginary lines that run North to South on the Earth and they measure the distance East and West.

300

How many years are in a decade, a century, and in a millennium.

10,100, 1,000

300

What was the first domesticated animal?

The wolf.

300

What was the area between the Tigris and Euphrates called why was it called this.

The Fertile Crescent. It was called this because the land there was really Fertile.

300

What geographical feature protected them from invasions in the north, south, and east and west?

The delta marshes, cataracts, and the desert.

300

What is a primary source?

A contemporary account of an event or topic.

400

What does a map key/map legend do for you?

It is a list of symbols that tells you what the symbols on the map mean.

400

Artisans, merchants, blacksmiths, 

Are examples of specialization.

400

What are some Sumerian inventions?

cuneiform, wheel and axel, wooden plow, chariots, sailboats, bronze.

400

Why did ancient Egypt study the stars?

To track time, seasons, and to help with travel, and To predict flooding in the Nile.

400

What is the map title used for?

Tells you what type of map you are looking at.

500

What are lines of latitude?

Imaginary lines that run west to east, and measure the distance north and south. 

500

What is domestication? How did it help the Neolithic people survive.

Domestication is when you train animals to do the things you want them to. They did the heavy farm work, and the animals were an extra supply of wool and meat.

500

How did the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers help the people of Mesopotamia?

It left a soil called silt behind and it helped them farm. Also gave them fresh water to water their plants.

500

Share the achievements of Narmer also known as Menes.

He united Upper and Lower Egypt and established a dynastic rule.

500

When reading a timeline and computing the numbers of years between two events in the same time period, you must _______ the two numbers. When computing the numbers of years between two events in the different time periods, you must _______ the two numbers.

Subtract and add