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What is an oligarchy?

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A government in which a small group that has control

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What is a Democracy?

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A government by the people

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What were the Sumerians way of writing?

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Picture writing, or cuneiform

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What did the Egyptians use to write on?

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Papyrus

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What did Egyptians use as a form of writing?

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Hieroglyphics

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Most civilizations believed in _______. The Israelites believed in _______.

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Polytheism, monotheism

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What does a physical map show?

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It shows land & water features

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What is parallel to the equator?

Latitude or longitude?

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Latitude!!

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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.
A

B. They started to farm.

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What was Queen Hatshepsut known for?????????

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Queen Hatshepsut

  • acted like a King
  • promoted trade,not war
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What were the 2 rivers that Mesopotamia was in between?

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The Tigris & the Euphrates

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What did the Sumerians invent?

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The wheel

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What did Narmer do with the two parts of Egypt?

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Narmer connected the two parts of Egypt.

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Who was Hammurabi? What was his code?

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Hammurabi was a Babylonian king. His code was a set of laws that was very strict

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What is history?

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History is the study of the people and events from the past

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What are people who study history called

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Historians

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What is an era

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A large division of time

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17
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What is a calendar

A

A system for arranging days in order

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18
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How do historians measure time?

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Decade, millenniums,centuries

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What does a timeline do?

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It Tracks the passage of time

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What is archaeology?

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The study of objects to learn about the past human life

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What is an artifact?

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An object made by people in the past

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What is paleontology

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The study of fossils

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What is a fossil?

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Plant or animal remains after they have been preserved from and earlier time

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A _____ government is a government in which citizens elect officials who govern.

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representative

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What is an era?

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A large division of time

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What is a species?

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A class of individuals with similar characteristics

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What is a point of view

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A personal attitude about people or life

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28
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Which way do lines of latitude go?????

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Parallel to the equator

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29
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What does capital mean

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Money or goods used to help people make or do things

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What are nomads

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People Who move from place to place to find food for each other

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31
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What does it mean to domesticate?

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To adapt an animal to living with humans

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32
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What is silt?

A

Fine particles of fertile soil

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33
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What is an epic?

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A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero

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What is a cataract

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A waterfall or rapids in a river

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35
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What is a shadoof?

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A bucket attached to a long pole

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36
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What is a pharaoh?

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A ruler of ancient Egypt

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37
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How did the Egyptians learn about the human body?

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From embalming

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38
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TRUE/FALSE:

David and his army defeated the Greeks

A

False

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39
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TRUE/FALSE:

Judaism played a part jn the development of Christianity and Islam

A

True

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What is a theocracy?

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A government lead by religious leaders

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41
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TRUE/FALSE:

The Great Pyramid was never the worlds tallest structure

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False

It once WAS the worlds tallest structure

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42
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About how long is the Nile River?

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About 4000 Miles

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43
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How did the Nile River and nearby deserts help the early Egyptians?

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The Nile River had dangerous cataracts that kept invaders from sailing in. The nearby deserts were too hot and not very inviting to enemies.

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44
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In about what year did the Nubians form the kingdom of Kush?

a. 3100 BC
b. 850 BC
c. 825 BC

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b. 850 BC

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45
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Who was the first engineer who built pyramids?

A

Imhotep

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46
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What is a government representative to another country?

A

Envoy

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47
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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

A

B!!

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48
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Why did the Egyptians living near the Nile River value wood products

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Because there were few trees along the Nile

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49
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Name two of the 6 essential elements of geography

A 
The world in Spatial terms
Places and Regions
physical Systems
Human Systems
Environment and Society
The Uses of Geography
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50
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What does a physical map show?

A

Land & water features

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51
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What does a political map show?

A

The names and borders of countries!!

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52
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What is shown on a special purpose map??

Hint: think themes

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Themes or patterns such as climate, natural resources, or population can be found

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53
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What are the cardinal directions?

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North, south, east, west

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54
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What is a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire

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A province

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55
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What is a textile?

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Woven cloth

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56
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Farming and ____ was important to the Assyrians

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trading

57
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What is irrigation??

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A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams

58
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What is silt?

A

Fine particles or fertile soil!!

59
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How did the floods of Mesopotamia benefit them? How did it harm them?

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Benefit: left silt, moist land for farming

Harm: sometimes the floods were too big, swept away homes and livestock and crops

60
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How did the people of Mesopotamia compensate with the floods???

A

They built dams to control these seasonal floods.

61
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Mesopotamia was in between what rivers/oceans?

a. Nile River and Red Sea
b. Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
c. Tigris and Euphrates

A

c

62
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Sumers people were knows as the ____

A

Sumerians

63
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Mesopotamia was located in the eastern part of _____.This strip of LAND extends from the _____ to the Persian Gulf.

A

Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean Sea

64
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What was the effect of increased farming and trade??

A

An organized government developed

65
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TRUE/FALSE: King Saul was more successful than King David in battle against the Philistines

A

False

66
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How can geographers find absolute location?

A

By finding the intersection of latitude and longitude

67
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Why do mapmakers create different types of map projections?

A

To show either the correct shapes of places or their correct sizes

68
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What is culture?????

A

The set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people.

69
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The Equator divides the Earth into _____ and _____ Hemispheres.

A

Eastern, Western

70
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Government officials appointed by the pharaoh called ____carried out his orders

A

bureaucrats

71
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The Great Pyramid in Giza was built for whom?

A

King Khufu

72
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In ____ BC the Chaldeans defeated the Assyrians?

a. 126
b. 612
c. 700

A

b. 612 BC ☺️

73
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Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of Earth were the

A

Ice ages

74
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Why was the discovery of bronze important in the Neolithic Age?

A

Bronze was stronger than copper

75
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What is a nomad?

A

A person who moves from place to place to survive

76
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TRUE/FALSE: A shrine is a place where people store extra food.

A

False

77
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What is supply?

A

The amount of a good or service that a producer wants to sell

78
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What is demand?

A

The amount of something that a consumer wants to buy

79
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What does the law of supply say?

A

The higher the price you can charge for a good or service, the more of it you will want to sell.

80
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What does the law of demand say?

A

The lower the price of a good a service, the more of it people will want to buy

81
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What are the 4 major kinds of resources?

a. Land, water, sky, rock
b. land, capital, labor, entrepreneurship
c. North, south, east, west

A

B

82
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What is the division of power among the branches of government?????????

A

Separation of powers

83
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What is a system in which each brand of government limits the power of another branch

A

Checks and balances

84
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What is era?

A

A large division of time.

85
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The study if objects to learn about past human life

A

Archeology

86
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An object made by people

A

Artifact

87
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The study of fossils

A

Paleontology

88
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Plant or animal remains that have been preserved from an earlier time

A

Fossil

89
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The study of human culture and how it develops over time

A

Anthropology

90
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A class of individuals with similar physical characteristics

A

Species

91
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Something that shows proof that something is true

A

Evidence

92
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Firsthand evidence of an event in history

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Primary source

93
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A document or written work created after an event

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Secondary source

94
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A personal attitude about people or life

A

Point of view

95
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An unreasoned, emotional judgment about people and events

A

Bias

96
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Concerned with academic learning or research

A

Scholarly

97
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Abbreviation for uniform resource locator; the address of an online resource

A

URL

98
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A decision reached after examining evidence

A

Conclusion

99
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Something that gives confidence that a person is qualified for a task

A

Credentials

100
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What is a system in which each branch of government limits the power of another branch?

A

Checks and balances.

101
Q

The ending of a URL for a website for an educational system

A

.edu

102
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The ending of a URL for an organization

A

.org

103
Q

To present someone’s work as your own without giving that person credit

A

Plagiarize

104
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One half of the globe when divided into north and south or east and west

A

Hemisphere

105
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Imaginary lines that circles the earth parallel to the equator

A

Latitude

106
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Imaginary lines that circle the earth from pole to pole

A

Longitude

107
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A way of showing the round earth on a flat map

A

Projection

108
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A map that shows land and water features

A

Physical map

109
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A map that shows the names and borders of countries

A

Political map

110
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A map that shows themes or patterns such as climate, natural resources, or population

A

Special-purpose map

111
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A measuring line that shows the distances on a map

A

Scale

112
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North, shouts, east or west

A

Cardinal directions

113
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A special purpose map that uses color to show population density

A

Choropleth

114
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The movement of people form one place to settle in another place

A

Migration

115
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The set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people

A

Culture

116
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What is an economic system in which custom decides what people do, make, buy, and sell?

A

A traditional economy

117
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What is a command economy?

A

A system in which a central government decides what good will be made and who will get them

118
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What is an opportunity cost?

A

What is given up such as time or money

119
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What is the difference between recession and inflation???

A

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

120
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Define exports

A

Goods sent from one country to another In trade

121
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What is Paleolithic?

A

Relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age

122
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What is technology??

A

An ability gained by the practical use of knowledge

123
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What is ‘the period in ancient human culture when people began to make and use bronze’

A

THE BRONZE AGE!

124
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What is a monarchy?

A

A government whose ruler, a king or queen, inherits the position from a parent

125
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What is polytheism?

A

A belief in more than one god

126
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What is a surplus?

A

An amount that is left over after a need has been met

127
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What is a city that governs itself and it’s surrounding territory?

A

A city-state

128
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What is cuneiform? Who was it developed by?

A

Cuneiform is a system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay

129
Q

Around 900 BC, the Assyrians army began to take over the rest of _____

A

Mesopotamia

130
Q

What is a caravan?

A

A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of animals.

131
Q

What is a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender?

Hint: hunger games

A

A tribute

132
Q

The ending of a URL for a government website

A

.gov

133
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What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger?

A

How to use stronger metals for weaponry, such as iron

134
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Which part of Babylon was known as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world?

A

The Hanging Gardens

135
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In 612 BC the Chaldeans defeated whom?

A

The Assyrians.

136
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The Assyrian Empire’s capital city

A

Nineveh

137
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Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

A

Nebuchadnezzar

138
Q

One who studies the stars and planets

A

Astronomer

139
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Which mountain people captured Babylon in 539 BC?

A

The Persians

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