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Geography
River Valleys
Belief Systems 1
Belief Systems 2
Vocabulary
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This type of map is labeled with rivers, oceans, mountain ranges, and deltas.
What is a physical map?
100
The writing system of the Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform?
100
This refers to the belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
100
This refers to the belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
100
This type of sources includes diaries, journal entries, photographs and videos.
What is a primary source?
200
The area around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that allowed for agriculture to flourish.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
In ancient India (Indus Valley), this innovation was one of the biggest things to set this river valley apart.
What is indoor plumbing?
200
Ethical codes found within Judaism and Christianity.
What are the 10 Commandments?
200
How people are divided into social classes in India based on Hindu beliefs.
What is the caste system?
200
For the soul to reborn following death (cycle).
What is reincarnation?
300
This era was the spark of civilization and we saw the emergence of domestication and agriculture.
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
300
Babylon and other cities in Mesopotamia had independent governments. These "states" are referred to as this.
What are city-states?
300
This means the "way of the universe"?
What is dao/tao?
300
Actions have equal reaction.
What is karma?
300
Refers to a permanent settlement with a written language, social organization and government and economic system.
What is a civilization?
400
The primary resource that caused civilization to emerge in Egypt, China, India and Mesopotamia?
What are rivers?
400
This is the type of governmental system that existed in Egypt and in many early river valleys.
What is a theocracy (religion and government are the same)?
400
In Buddhism, this establishes that suffering is an aspect of life and how one can overcome it.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
400
In China, this ethical system called for a central government and use of group punishment.
What is Legalism?
400
This means the exchange of goods through trade.
What is to barter?
500
These are the five themes of geography?
Region, Location, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement and Place.
500
The legal system established in ancient Mesopotamia?
What was Hammurabi's Code?
500
These are the five pillars of Islam.
What is faith (in one god, Allah), prayer (5 times daily towards Mecca), alms giving (charity), fasting (during Ramadan), and pilgrimage (to Mecca)?
500
In Confucianism this refers to respect for elders.
What is filial piety?
500
This refers to Jews living outside Israel following Mesopotamian rule.
What is diaspora?