Social Studies Review

The equator splits the Earth into Northern and Southern ___.

This is a population map. What color represents the area with the lowest populations?

A holy place of worship for followers of Islam is called a ___.

Which of the following names the prophet who is considered the founder of Islam?

The ancient Greek civilization was made up of many smaller ___, that had their own traditions, cultures, and ideas.

The ancient Greeks believed ___ was the king of the gods.

The lines on the map are latitude and longitude lines.

Which of the following allowed the world’s first civilization to develop in Mesopotamia?

Who is the founder of Buddhism?

According to Hindu beliefs, what is it called when you get what you give out to others?

What are the basic map elements?

What was the result of Rome ending its expansion and entering the Pax Romana?

In this population map, the dark color means there are not many people in that area.

Alexander the Great had many achievements during his lifetime. What are 3 of them?

The earliest civilizations all formed near...

How did the Black Death influence the population during the Middle Ages? (more than one answer)

Using the coordinates, 30 degrees South, 70 degrees West, name which continent is there. (ignore yellow dots)

Geography is the study of ___ .

Cuneiform, a language written on clay tablets, was created by which civilization?

The total of knowledge, shared attitudes, and behaviors of the members of a specific group of people is their ___.

The earliest known humans who primarily depended on the wild for food and subsistence were called...

Which of the following does NOT impact how people interact with their environment?

Which of the following is the holy city to which all Muslims hope to make a pilgrimage?

The first written alphabet was developed by which civilization?

What is another name for the Bubonic Plague?

In which country did Buddhism originate?

The ancient Romans developed a network of _____ to help defend their empire.

Mansa Musa's rule of Mali led to the spread of Christianity in west Africa.

Belief in more than one god is...

The trade route that connected the European world with most of Asia was called the...

Which of the following groups was responsible for the first Democratic government?

___ was a Greek philosopher who developed a method of teaching by asking questions and discussing the answers.

The Torah, synagogues, and rabbis are important parts of what major religion?

Which of the following is the religion of most people who live in India?

The yearly flooding of the Nile River provided fertile soil (silt) for the ancient Egyptians.

How did emperor Shi Huangdi influence the development of Chinese civilization?

The main reason Polybius valued the study of history was that it allows people to learn without putting them in danger.

Egyptian civilization developed near the mouth of the Nile river, where silt was deposited. This area is called ___ .

The Crusades were a series of many military campaigns to free what area from Muslim control?

The discovery of what process led to the first civilization?

Based on the source, which statement best describes the spread of Buddhism to new regions?