Geography to Egypt Review

Egypt and Mesopotamia’s religions both had many gods, this belief is known as _________.

The Egyptians developed a calendar with 365 days that was used to track the annual ________.

These can renew or replace themselves given enough time...

Archaeologists discovery of King Tut’s tomb helped by ______.

Egyptians used _________________and Mesopotamia used cuneiform both are _____________________.

Which term is used to describe when people share common beliefs, language, holidays, etc.?

An idea, invention or discovery passed down to a future generations is it's

What is a turning point in history?

The __________ are considered Egypt’s greatest architectural achievement.

If the OSA started in 40,000 B.C. & ended in 12,000 BC how many years was the OSA?

The belief in more than one god or goddess:

Egyptians built the pyramids to serve as tombs where the _________ could live eternally.

Cave art would be considered a ___________ source.

Which type of climate would best describe Antarctica?

Salt, oil, gold, diamonds, silver are all examples of....

Scientists believe the first people came from

How did the discovery of fire improve life in the Old Stone Age?

What type of government did Mesopotamia have?

People were able to farm in this region because....

The pharaoh was considered a______________ and ruled with absolute power.

What did people of Mesopotamia develop to help them farm?

The study of the earth and how people live on it and use it?

Which part of a map is used to determine distance?

Which line of latitude is located at 0 degrees?

The people of Mesopotamia wrote on clay tablets because this was...

True or False, the Dinosaurs were extinct when the Old Stone Age people were alive?

What are ice ages?

These cannot renew or replace themselves....

Which part of a map is used to determine geographic direction?

____________________ was the first female pharaoh

The process of preserving the body for the Next World is called ____

The people in the Old Stone Age were known as

______Egypt was an area in the south close to the beginning or source of the Nile River.

The most important feature of geography in this region was the...

The greatest discovery during the Old Stone Age was

Technologies are...

The name of the place ancient Egyptians go after they die is called

Because New Stone Age people could settle in one place they could now

The Egyptians liked the floodwaters because they deposited _______ which______the farmland.

In Çatal Hüyük, what evidence showed that religion was becoming an important part of daily life

What were animals used for in the Old Stone Age?

Which term is used to describe what a map is going to show you?

Taming an animal for use by humans is called

Pyramids were built during the ________kingdom.

The weighing of the heart ceremony was where people were _______ after death for their behavior

These are what people believe are most important in their lives...

Mesopotamia's economy would be based on...

Sargon was an important person in Mesopotamia because he...

Hammurabi's code of law was the first...

What does latitude and longitude help to determine?

The first pharaoh to unite upper and lower Egypt was ______ .

Which type of map is used when a person wants to locate the type of resources found in an area?

One problem the people of Mesopotamia faced was...

Which type of climate has hot temperatures and a lot of rain?

What is this a picture of?

The B.C. in 200 B.C. stands for

Which term is used to describe what is happening outside, but over an extended period of time?

Who was the first person to develop the first written code of law?

What runs from east to west on a map and measures the distance North and South of the equator?

A _____________ is pictured below and was used for irrigation

What did the people of Mesopotamia use to write on?

The region where the Nile River meets the Mediterranean Sea is known as the Nile _____________.

Which terms describe land forms?

What was the greatest invention during the New Stone Age

One of the most important technologies used by the Paleolithic people was

What is another name for the New Stone Age?

Which set of lines runs from north to south on a map and measures the distance east to west?

This type of climate, has four seasons...

Which part of a map explains the symbols used on it?

The New Kingdom began when Ahmose drove the ______________out of Egypt.

Many nomads moved into areas with a milder climate and fertile land which led them to be

Hammurabi's Code of Law would be considered a ___________ source.

What do historians call the general early period of human history?

Which type of map shows an area's geographic characteristics, like mountains and rivers?

The main tool used in the Old Stone Age was

The people of Mesopotamia were...

The Book of the Dead exists because the Egyptians invented _________ and ______________.

Another name for Mesopotamia is the...

What term refers to what is happening outside right now?

Which type of map shows cities, states, capitals?

A nomad is a person that farms the land and trades their excess for other goods

The textbook is an example of a

Driving the Hyksos out of Egypt signaled the start of which kingdom?

The A.D. in 500A.D. stands for

Which of these people would be at the top of the social pyramid?

Because people could specialize they were able to

What was the writing in Mesopotamia called?

What does c. mean?

Wind, water, trees, plants and animals are all examples of....