Mid Terms Review Flashcards
What is an oligarchy?
A government in which a small group that has control
What is a Democracy?
A government by the people
What were the Sumerians way of writing?
Picture writing, or cuneiform
What did the Egyptians use to write on?
Papyrus
What did Egyptians use as a form of writing?
Hieroglyphics
Most civilizations believed in _______. The Israelites believed in _______.
Polytheism, monotheism
What does a physical map show?
It shows land & water features
What is parallel to the equator?
Latitude or longitude?
Latitude!!
What changed In the Neolithic Age? A. They started to move to different places. B. They started to farm. C. They used iron. D. They used fire.
B. They started to farm.
What was Queen Hatshepsut known for?????????
Queen Hatshepsut
- acted like a King
- promoted trade,not war
What were the 2 rivers that Mesopotamia was in between?
The Tigris & the Euphrates
What did the Sumerians invent?
The wheel
What did Narmer do with the two parts of Egypt?
Narmer connected the two parts of Egypt.
Who was Hammurabi? What was his code?
Hammurabi was a Babylonian king. His code was a set of laws that was very strict
What is history?
History is the study of the people and events from the past
What are people who study history called
Historians
What is an era
A large division of time
What is a calendar
A system for arranging days in order
How do historians measure time?
Decade, millenniums,centuries
What does a timeline do?
It Tracks the passage of time
What is archaeology?
The study of objects to learn about the past human life
What is an artifact?
An object made by people in the past
What is paleontology
The study of fossils
What is a fossil?
Plant or animal remains after they have been preserved from and earlier time
A _____ government is a government in which citizens elect officials who govern.
representative
What is an era?
A large division of time
What is a species?
A class of individuals with similar characteristics
What is a point of view
A personal attitude about people or life
Which way do lines of latitude go?????
Parallel to the equator
What does capital mean
Money or goods used to help people make or do things
What are nomads
People Who move from place to place to find food for each other
What does it mean to domesticate?
To adapt an animal to living with humans
What is silt?
Fine particles of fertile soil
What is an epic?
A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero
What is a cataract
A waterfall or rapids in a river
What is a shadoof?
A bucket attached to a long pole
What is a pharaoh?
A ruler of ancient Egypt
How did the Egyptians learn about the human body?
From embalming
TRUE/FALSE:
David and his army defeated the Greeks
False
TRUE/FALSE:
Judaism played a part jn the development of Christianity and Islam
True
What is a theocracy?
A government lead by religious leaders
TRUE/FALSE:
The Great Pyramid was never the worlds tallest structure
False
It once WAS the worlds tallest structure
About how long is the Nile River?
About 4000 Miles
How did the Nile River and nearby deserts help the early Egyptians?
The Nile River had dangerous cataracts that kept invaders from sailing in. The nearby deserts were too hot and not very inviting to enemies.
In about what year did the Nubians form the kingdom of Kush?
a. 3100 BC
b. 850 BC
c. 825 BC
b. 850 BC
Who was the first engineer who built pyramids?
Imhotep
What is a government representative to another country?
Envoy
Egyptians built pyramids because they…
a. Desired to please the gods
b. wanted to protect the dead Pharaohs body
c. Wanted to impress later civilizations with their buildings
B!!
Why did the Egyptians living near the Nile River value wood products
Because there were few trees along the Nile
Name two of the 6 essential elements of geography
The world in Spatial terms Places and Regions physical Systems Human Systems Environment and Society The Uses of Geography
What does a physical map show?
Land & water features
What does a political map show?
The names and borders of countries!!
What is shown on a special purpose map??
Hint: think themes
Themes or patterns such as climate, natural resources, or population can be found
What are the cardinal directions?
North, south, east, west
What is a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
A province
What is a textile?
Woven cloth
Farming and ____ was important to the Assyrians
trading
What is irrigation??
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
What is silt?
Fine particles or fertile soil!!
How did the floods of Mesopotamia benefit them? How did it harm them?
Benefit: left silt, moist land for farming
Harm: sometimes the floods were too big, swept away homes and livestock and crops
How did the people of Mesopotamia compensate with the floods???
They built dams to control these seasonal floods.
Mesopotamia was in between what rivers/oceans?
a. Nile River and Red Sea
b. Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
c. Tigris and Euphrates
c
Sumers people were knows as the ____
Sumerians
Mesopotamia was located in the eastern part of _____.This strip of LAND extends from the _____ to the Persian Gulf.
Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean Sea
What was the effect of increased farming and trade??
An organized government developed
TRUE/FALSE: King Saul was more successful than King David in battle against the Philistines
False
How can geographers find absolute location?
By finding the intersection of latitude and longitude
Why do mapmakers create different types of map projections?
To show either the correct shapes of places or their correct sizes
What is culture?????
The set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people.
The Equator divides the Earth into _____ and _____ Hemispheres.
Eastern, Western
Government officials appointed by the pharaoh called ____carried out his orders
bureaucrats
The Great Pyramid in Giza was built for whom?
King Khufu
In ____ BC the Chaldeans defeated the Assyrians?
a. 126
b. 612
c. 700
b. 612 BC ☺️
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of Earth were the
Ice ages
Why was the discovery of bronze important in the Neolithic Age?
Bronze was stronger than copper
What is a nomad?
A person who moves from place to place to survive
TRUE/FALSE: A shrine is a place where people store extra food.
False
What is supply?
The amount of a good or service that a producer wants to sell
What is demand?
The amount of something that a consumer wants to buy
What does the law of supply say?
The higher the price you can charge for a good or service, the more of it you will want to sell.
What does the law of demand say?
The lower the price of a good a service, the more of it people will want to buy
What are the 4 major kinds of resources?
a. Land, water, sky, rock
b. land, capital, labor, entrepreneurship
c. North, south, east, west
B
What is the division of power among the branches of government?????????
Separation of powers
What is a system in which each brand of government limits the power of another branch
Checks and balances
What is era?
A large division of time.
The study if objects to learn about past human life
Archeology
An object made by people
Artifact
The study of fossils
Paleontology
Plant or animal remains that have been preserved from an earlier time
Fossil
The study of human culture and how it develops over time
Anthropology
A class of individuals with similar physical characteristics
Species
Something that shows proof that something is true
Evidence
Firsthand evidence of an event in history
Primary source
A document or written work created after an event
Secondary source
A personal attitude about people or life
Point of view
An unreasoned, emotional judgment about people and events
Bias
Concerned with academic learning or research
Scholarly
Abbreviation for uniform resource locator; the address of an online resource
URL
A decision reached after examining evidence
Conclusion
Something that gives confidence that a person is qualified for a task
Credentials
What is a system in which each branch of government limits the power of another branch?
Checks and balances.
The ending of a URL for a website for an educational system
.edu
The ending of a URL for an organization
.org
To present someone’s work as your own without giving that person credit
Plagiarize
One half of the globe when divided into north and south or east and west
Hemisphere
Imaginary lines that circles the earth parallel to the equator
Latitude
Imaginary lines that circle the earth from pole to pole
Longitude
A way of showing the round earth on a flat map
Projection
A map that shows land and water features
Physical map
A map that shows the names and borders of countries
Political map
A map that shows themes or patterns such as climate, natural resources, or population
Special-purpose map
A measuring line that shows the distances on a map
Scale
North, shouts, east or west
Cardinal directions
A special purpose map that uses color to show population density
Choropleth
The movement of people form one place to settle in another place
Migration
The set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people
Culture
What is an economic system in which custom decides what people do, make, buy, and sell?
A traditional economy
What is a command economy?
A system in which a central government decides what good will be made and who will get them
What is an opportunity cost?
What is given up such as time or money
What is the difference between recession and inflation???
In a recession, companies often close and people loose their jobs. In an inflation, there is a continues rise in prices or supply of money
Define exports
Goods sent from one country to another In trade
What is Paleolithic?
Relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age
What is technology??
An ability gained by the practical use of knowledge
What is ‘the period in ancient human culture when people began to make and use bronze’
THE BRONZE AGE!
What is a monarchy?
A government whose ruler, a king or queen, inherits the position from a parent
What is polytheism?
A belief in more than one god
What is a surplus?
An amount that is left over after a need has been met
What is a city that governs itself and it’s surrounding territory?
A city-state
What is cuneiform? Who was it developed by?
Cuneiform is a system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay
Around 900 BC, the Assyrians army began to take over the rest of _____
Mesopotamia
What is a caravan?
A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of animals.
What is a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender?
Hint: hunger games
A tribute
The ending of a URL for a government website
.gov
What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger?
How to use stronger metals for weaponry, such as iron
Which part of Babylon was known as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world?
The Hanging Gardens
In 612 BC the Chaldeans defeated whom?
The Assyrians.
The Assyrian Empire’s capital city
Nineveh
Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
One who studies the stars and planets
Astronomer
Which mountain people captured Babylon in 539 BC?
The Persians
