Geography
What are the intermediate directions?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
What was the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers called?
Mesopotamia.
What is another name for the Old Stone Age?
Paleolithic Age.
What continent is Egypt located on?
Africa.
What are cardinal directions?
north, east, south and west.
What are lines of latitude?
run east and west
What does polytheistic mean?
The belief in more than one God.
What is another name for the New Stone Age?
The Neolithic Age.
What are some achievements of Narmer.
Conquered lower Egypt and married one of their princesses which unified the kingdom.
What is the map key?
explains the symbols.
What are lines of longitude?
Lines that run north and south.
What does the acronym G.R.A.P.E.S. stand for?
Geography, Religion, Achievement, Politics, Economy, and Social Structure.
What is a surplus?
Having more food than needed.
What is theocracy?
A government in which the same person is both the political leader and the religious leader.
What is the most famous line of latitude?
The equator.
What is a map scale used for?
Determines the actual distance between points.
What are the main Sumerian inventions?
Cuneiform, the wheel, the sailboat, wooden plows and bronze.
What is specialization?
They focused on specific tasks or trades.
What geographical feature protected Egypt from invasions in the North?
The marshy land of the Nile Delta.
What is an example of a secondary source?
A biography.
What is the most famous line of longitude?
Prime Meridian
Who was responsible for the first written law code?
Hammurabi
What is systematic agriculture?
The organized growing of food on a regular basis.
Why did the people of ancient Egypt study the stars?
They used the stars to determine the timing of festivals, predict the Nile floods and for placement of the temples.
How many years are in a millennium?
1,000