Geography
Our county
What is Westchester?
The time before history was written down
Prehistory
the rivers on either side of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
a sarcophagus
What is an early Egyptian coffin or casket?
the study of human societies & cultures and their development
What is anthropology?
The frozen continent. The world's largest desert.
What is Antarctica?
people living together in communities
What is society?
Mesopotamian writing
What is cuneiform?
The famous powerful female pharaoh who waged peace
Who is Hatshetput?
Why the earth never stops spinning
What is friction?
The worlds longest river at over 4,000 miles long
What is the Nile?
Watering crops
What is irrigation?
Most of Mesopotamia is located in this country
What is Iraq?
The sea where Nile silt built its delta
What is the Mediterranean?
the country that has more Spanish speakers than any other country except Mexico
What is the United States?
Zero degrees latitude
What is the equator?
Civilizations always begin near these
What are rivers?
Consequences of people settling in one place and not being nomadic anymore
What are war, diseases, hierarchies, & technological development?
The stone used to decipher hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The second largest continent that is 14 times larger than Greenland and which has 54 different countries.
What is Africa?
Imaginary lines that run from north to south?
What are longitude lines?
People were able to settle down and stop hunting and gathering because the developed this
What is the ability to cultivate and store grain (food)?
farm animals & pets
What is the domestication of animals?
The boy king whose in tact tomb was the great archaeological discovery of the early 2oth century
Who is King Tut?
Felines
What are cats?