Maps and Time
These lines run parallel to the equator and measure distance North and South.
What are lines of latitude?
Early civilizations needed this so agriculture could expand.
What is access to fresh water?
A characteristic of the government of Athens but NOT of the United States government.
What is Direct Democracy?
Peloponnesus is located on this continent.
What is Europe?
Ptolemy I contributed this to Alexandria when he died.
What is a library?
Leaving out the viewpoint of an enemy in war is an example of this.
What is bias (historical bias, bias in historical materials)?
These lines measure east and west.
What are lines of Longitude?
Early humans migrated here AFTER reaching North America.
What is South America?
Two concepts of government shared by ancient Greece and modern day United States.
What are two legislative bodies and a judicial system with judges and juries? (and secular government)
This is the most famous CITY in the COUNTRY of Greece and on the CONTINENT of Europe.
What is Athens?
This is what Euclid is known for.
What is geometry?
GIS stands for this.
What is Geographic Information System?
A millennium is this number of years.
What is 1000?
We learn about early civilizations from artifacts - sources directly from the time period. These are sources of the event when it happened.
What are Primary Sources?
He was the first to have a written code of law in Athens.
Who was Draco?
This is the cause of the first Persian War.
What is Athens helped other Greek city-states (poleis) rebel against Persian rule?
His philosophy depended on questions.
Who is Socrates?
An example of physical systems impacting the environment.
What is a flood causing erosion and loss of shoreline? (many other acceptable answers, results of earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.)
Another name for 100 years.
What is a century?
These were two of the earliest human skeletons ever discovered, our earliest ancestors who lived in Africa.
Who were Ardi and Lucy?
These people could not vote in Athens.
Who were women, slaves and foreign non-citizens?
This is a result of the Peloponnesian War
What is Athens was seriously weakened and lost its military might?
He conquered Persia.
Who was Alexander the Great?
These help track weather systems.
What are satellites?
This is what BCE means.
What is Before Common Era? (They are like negative numbers on a timeline.)
The first agricultural revolution in which humans moved from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement and then began using terracing to grow crops.
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
The Archon in Athens is like this in the United States.
What is the President?
This is a difference between how children were raised in Athens and in Sparta.
What is Spartan children were encouraged in physical fitness and discipline, whereas Athenian children were given education and traditional roles?
He built up the Athenian navy and led them to victory at the Battle of Marathon.
Who was Themistocles?
This is one of the Six Essential Elements of Geography, the one that deals with latitude, longitude and location.
What is The World in Spatial Terms?
A span of time that can vary in the number of years.
What is an era?
This type of photography is used to help archeologists find fossils.
What is aerial photography?
Present in ancient Greece, these are characteristics of a civilization. (List 3)
What are cities, social classes and job specialization?
poleis = city-state
Trade was important for ancient Greeks and even earlier civilizations for this reason.
This leader made a fatal decision that affected Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Pericles?
The first, second and third steps in a historian's process.
What are
1) Ask questions
2) Form a hypothesis
3) Test the hypothesis