SS MP1 Key Concepts Study Guide

Question 1

What are the 5 themes of geography?

Answer 1

region
human environment interaction
location
place
movement

Question 2

What are latitude lines?

Answer 2

measure location north or south of the equator

Question 3

What are longitude lines?

Answer 3

measure location east or west

Question 4

When recording absolute location, does the latitude or longitude coordinate come first?

Answer 4

latitude

Question 5

What pre-Columbian civilization lived in Mexico and Central America during the late BCE/Early CE times?

Answer 5

Mayan

Question 6

What contributions did the Mayas make to society? Name 2.

Answer 6

Temples, stadiums. pyramids, cities

Question 7

What pre-Columbian culture lived in Mexico during the 1400s and 1500s?

Answer 7

Aztec

Question 8

What was remarkable about the capital city of Tenochtitlan?

Answer 8

city was built on a lake

Question 9

What pre-Columbian culture lived in Peru and Southwestern South America?

Answer 9

Inca

Question 10

Name one accomplishment the Inca people made?

Answer 10

Machu-Picchu

Question 11

What is similar about the way the Aztec and Inca empires fell?

Answer 11

conquered by Spanish

Question 12

What is the true name for the “Iroquois” of the Eastern Woodlands?

Answer 12

x

Question 13

What type of home did the Iroquois live in?

Answer 13

longhouses

Question 14

What are the 5 major tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy?

Answer 14

Mohawk
Oneida
Seneca
Cayuga
Onondaga

Question 15

What 3 foods did many of the pre-Columbian cultures eat?

Answer 15

squash
corn
beans

Question 16

From what ancient civilization did the United States take aspects of democracy from?

Answer 16

Athens, Greece

Question 17

What political and economic structure was put in place during the Middle Ages to bring stability back to Europe following the fall of the Roman Empire?

Answer 17

Feudalism

Question 18

What kind of social class structure was there in the feudal system? (Social mobility or rigid structure)

Answer 18

rigid structure

Question 19

Who was TRULY at the top of the social hierarchy of Feudal Europe?

Answer 19

Roman Catholic Church/Pope

Question 20

When did the Black Plague hit Europe?

Answer 20

1300’s or 14th Century