Social Studies Final

Question 1

scale

Answer 1

a relationship between real size and size used on a map

Question 2

map grid

Answer 2

intersecting lines used to plot a location

Question 3

physical map

Answer 3

shows physical features of the land and height of land above sea level

Question 4

political map

Answer 4

shows country names and borders and names of cities

Question 5

contour lines

Answer 5

shows height above sea level using lines of elevation

Question 6

timeline

Answer 6

shows events from history in the order they happened

Question 7

precipitation

Answer 7

water that falls to the earths surface in the form of sleet, hail, rain, or snow

Question 8

government

Answer 8

helps control a group of people-provides laws and consequences

Question 9

trade

Answer 9

allows a city to obtain things they need and don’t have

Question 10

religion

Answer 10

provides a belief system

Question 11

written records

Answer 11

allows a city to record their existence and preserve it

Question 12

Science/Art/Technology

Answer 12

shows that a civilization can create and invent to better their lives

Question 13

jobs & skills

Answer 13

allows people to sustain in life in a civilization and produce needed material

Question 14

cities and architecture

Answer 14

provides places to live, worship, entertain, and govern

Question 15

hunters & gatherers

Answer 15

carried all they owned-moved constantly to follow food

Question 16

out of Africa theory

Answer 16

theory that humans originated in Africa and migrated to other parts of the world

Question 17

domestication

Answer 17

the taming of animals and plants to serve humans

Question 18

river valleys

Answer 18

areas of fertile soil and protective mountains and water where early civilizations settled

Question 19

specilization

Answer 19

branching into obs other than farming to serve the growing community

Question 20

surplus

Answer 20

more than what is needed

Question 21

farming

Answer 21

the planting and harvesting of seeds and food to sustain life in one place. Allowed humans to settle in one place instead of following food

Question 22

what continent is Mesopotamia located on

Answer 22

Asia (it is in Asia Minor)

Question 23

What does Mesopotamia mean

Answer 23

land between two rivers

Question 24

what present day country is mesopotamia

Answer 24

iraq

Question 25

was Mesopotamia monotheistic or polytheistic

Answer 25

polytheistic

Question 26

scribe

Answer 26

one who is trained to write for a living

Question 27

ziggurat

Answer 27

a brick-platform, step pyramid to honor the gods

Question 28

sumerians

Answer 28

the citizens of the first civilization of summer

Question 29

How many laws were in hammurabis code

Answer 29

300 laws

Question 30

gilgamesh

Answer 30

the king of Uruk who learned that you can’t live forever except in peoples memories

Question 31

cuneiform

Answer 31

wedge-shaped symbols that make up the writting system of sumer

Question 32

fertile crescent

Answer 32

an area of fertile land between the Med. sea, taurus + Zagros Mountains, red sea and persian gulf

Question 33

where is egypt located

Answer 33

africa

Question 34

what is the main river in egypt

Answer 34

the nile

Question 35

was egypt monotheistic or polytheistic

Answer 35

polytheistic

Question 36

pharaoh

Answer 36

a single ruler of egypt. Head of the family dynasty

Question 37

mummification

Answer 37

a proccess of preserving a body for the afterlife

Question 38

hieroglyphics

Answer 38

the pictoral writing of the egyptians-only scribes learned

Question 39

Rosetta stone

Answer 39

cracked the code of hieroglyphs and helped decipher the symbols

Question 40

book of the dead

Answer 40

a set of scrolls that acts as a guide to the afterlife

Question 41

pyramid

Answer 41

a large triangle shaped figure with four sides and a square base where mummies were often burried

Question 42

valley of the kings

Answer 42

an area of the west side of the nile where pharohs were burried

Question 43

howard and lord carnavon

Answer 43

discovered and excavated king tuts tomb

Question 44

what continent was greece located on

Answer 44

europe

Question 45

what are the three main seas of greece

Answer 45

Aegaen, Med., Ionian

Question 46

Mount Olympus

Answer 46

the home of the greek gods

Question 47

sparta

Answer 47

a strict military city-state in Greece-all boys and girls were trained

Question 48

Athens

Answer 48

A democratic city-state-valued education and physical phrases

Question 49

Alexander the Great

Answer 49

ruler of Greece who expanded the empire and established the worlds first library

Question 50

socrates

Answer 50

a philosopher

Question 51

was greece monotheistic or polytheistic

Answer 51

polytheistic

Question 52

homer

Answer 52

a greek blind poet wh wrote the iliad and the odyssey

Question 53

parthenon

Answer 53

a temple in athens to honor athena-built on the acropolis

Question 54

peloponnesian war

Answer 54

a civil war between sparta and athens over athens’ growing power

Question 55

democracy

Answer 55

a government by the peolpe in which citizens vote

Question 56

oligarchy

Answer 56

a government ruled by a small group of aristocrats (upper class)

Question 57

monarchy

Answer 57

a government ruled by a king or queen

Question 58

what continent is rome located on

Answer 58

europe