1. What is the difference between a primary and secondary source?
A primary source is a document or physical object which was created during the time under study, whereas a secondary source is a document created after an event has occurred.
100
6. Name two positive and one negative way a river can impact society.
Positive:
-Continuous source of fresh water
-Silt (nutrient rich soil) for farming
-Trade/transport
Negative:
-Flooding
100
11. Name the 4 River Valley Civilizations and the rivers they formed around.
Mesopotamia: Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Egypt: Nile River
Indus Valley: Indus River
China: Yellow River/Huang He
100
16. What are the 8 features of civilization?
Writing Systems, Government/Laws, Infrastructure, Organized Religion, Social Classes, Development of Cities, Art & Architecture, and Job Specialization
100
21. What revolution occurred during the Neolithic Era?
Agricultural
200
2. A particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.
Perspective
200
7. What are the 5 themes of geography?
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region
200
12. Which River Valley Civ had a ziggurats? Define ziggurat.
Mesopotamia. Ziggurat: massive pyramid structures that served as temples to the gods. Each city was centered around one.
200
17. What was the first writing system? Which River Valley Civ did it originate from?
Cuneiform from Mesopotamia
200
22. What was the first written code of law? Which River Valley Civ did it come from?
Hammurabi's Code, Mesopotamia
300
3. Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
Bias
300
8. Which two continents share one large landmass (mostly) in the eastern hemisphere?
**Bonus 50 pts** Name the rest of the continents.
Europe and Asia
Bonus: N. America, S. America, Australia, Antarctica, Africa
300
13. Which River Valley Civ had shadufs as a part of their irrigation system? Define irrigation.
Egypt. Irrigation is a human-made method of transporting water to crops
300
18. What is a scribe? Where did a scribe fall in the Egyptian social classes?
Scribe: a person who holds the special job of recording (writing down) laws and other important documents in a society. Scribes were high - 4th level - because they were the only people who could write in Egyptian society.
300
23. Define hierarchy.
Hierarchy: rankings of groups where one is better than others.
400
4. Name the Social Scientist of HEGSAP.
Historian
Economist
Geographer
Sociologist
Archeologist
Political Scientist
400
9. Which ocean exists in between Europe and North America?
**Bonus 50pts** Name the rest of the oceans.
Atlantic
Bonus: Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Southern
400
14. Which River Valley Civ created the Book of the Dead? Which feature of civilization does it fall under?
Egypt, Organized Religion
400
19. What do the organized religions of Egypt and Mesopotamia have in common?
They are both polytheistic. Polytheism is the belief in more than one god.
400
24. What are two immediate effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
*Abandon nomadic (moving around) way of life and settle in villages
*Acquire (get) more possessions (belongings)
*Develop new technologies
*Develop Calendars
*More interaction among communities
*Increased warfare
500
5. Name a social scientist and explain what they study.
Historian: humans throughout time
Economist: the way humans use resources, goods, & money
Geographer: human interaction with the environment/earth
Sociologist: human behavior
Archeologist: humans in the past through artifacts
Political Scientist: government/political activity
500
10. What is a projection? Name an example.
Projection: a method to turn the 3D globe into a 2D image. Examples: Planar, Conical, Cylindrical, and Compromise
500
15. Which River Valley Civ had Hammurabi’s Code? Name one law from the code.
Mesopotamia; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
500
20. What type of government did Egypt have?
Dynasty - one family rules over an area for a long period of time
500
25. Name the two primary sets of beliefs of the Egyptian religion.
Polytheistic, pharaohs were gods, believed in afterlife