Geography of the Middle East and World Cultures
Maps to Success
Ancient Civilizations
Countries of the Middle East
Miscellaneous
100
Behaviors, values, holidays, languages, foods, and beliefs of a particular group
What is culture?
100
A map with surface features of the Earth, including mountains, rivers, and other landforms.
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is a physical map?
100
A community that exhibits advanced cultural traits, such as technology, innovation, infrastructure, organization, and government.
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is a civilization?
100
Religion founded by Jesus of Nazareth in the 1st century.
What is Christianity?
100
Oldest surviving works of literature, from Ancient Mesopotamia.
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
200
** MISCELLANEOUS **
Most people of this country live in the foothills (bottom) of the mountains.
What is the country of Iran?
200
A map with manmade borders, including state and country borders.
What is a political map?
200
Area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the "Fertile Crescent"?
200
Capital of Egypt and largest city in Africa.
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is Cairo?
200
Class system used in India to segregate people based on the families to which they were born.
What is the caste system?
300
Name the country labeled "B" on this map.
** DAILY DOUBLE **
What is Saudi Arabia?
300
0° longitude
What is the prime meridian?
300
Area where Ancient Egypt arose.
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is the Nile River Valley?
300
A body of water in Israel and Jordan that is 90 times saltier than the ocean.
What is the Dead Sea?
300
Based on God's promise to Abraham, and based on Mosaic Law.
What is Judaism?
400
** MISCELLANEOUS **
Leader who united Indian tribes to form the Mauryan Empire.
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
400
0° latitude and halfway between the North and South Poles.
What is the equator?
400
Chinese rulers believed they had this authority to govern their people.
What is a "Mandate of Heaven"?
400
A city important to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is Jerusalem?
400
Hieroglyphics.
What are picture-like symbols used to write language in Ancient Egypt?
500
Country labeled "C" on this map
What is the country of Iran?
500
A map that illustrates specific information, such as amount of rainfall or population density in an area.
What is a theme (thematic) map?
500
World's first toilets and grid road system.
What are innovations of the city of Harappa in the Indus River Valley Civilization?
500
Country labeled "A" on this map.
What is Egypt?
500
Court official who designed the first pyramid in Egypt.
Who is Imhotep?