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Geography
Characteristics of Culture
Vocabulary
Early Humans
Mesopotamia
100
The part of the map that tells what the symbols on a map mean
What is the map key/legend
100
What do historians primarily study?
Events and peoples of the past
100
The process of supplying water to crops
What is irrigation
100
How did the first humans get food?
They hunted wild animals and gathered plants
100
invented by the Sumerians to help transportation
the wheel
200
If you wanted to know which way is north on a map, which map component would help the most?
What is a compass rose
200
Which activity does an archaeologist perform?
digs and studies ancient artifacts and tools
200
The taming and raising of animals
What is domestication
200
What is pre history?
the time before written language
200
Rich soil
What is fertile
300
Land that is almost completely surrounded by water; on three sides
What is a peninsula
300
What is an artifact?
an object made by humans long ago
300
the raising of plants and animals for food
agriculture
300
Another vocabulary word to describe hunter and gatherers is:
nomadic
300
ziggurat
What is a temple found in Mesopotamia
400
the measuring lines found on maps at 0 degrees North-South and at 0 degrees East West called
What is equator and prime meridian
400
Which field of study compares different cultural groups?
anthropology
400
a person who moves from place to place in search of a home
What is nomad
400
What was one way that writing led to the growth and development of early civilizations?
It enabled them to keep records and create other documents
400
What are the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
500
North America is located in the following hemispheres
Northern and Western
500
What was important about early humans developing special skills?
improving the quality of what they made making things beautiful rather than just useful
500
the land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia
500
How did agriculture change the way people lived?
it allowed them to stay in one place and start communities
500
Sumer, Nippur, and Ur were all this:
What is a city state