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7th Grade - Unit 5
Ancient Africa
Question | Answer |
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Which rivers surround Mesopotamia? | Tigris and Euphrates |
Which modern-day country was Mesopotamia located in? | Iraq |
What did Hammurabi establish to provide justice and control his empire? | code of law |
What is the name for the shift from food gathering to food raising? | Agricultural Revolution |
Which direction did the Bantu people migrate from their homeland? | southeast |
The Bantu migration began between which 2 rivers? | Benue and Niger |
The _______________ was the name for the fertile soil along the Nile River in Egypt. | black land |
The _______________ was the name for the outlying desert areas in Egypt away from the Nile River. | red land |
Which process allowed the Egyptians to grow crops in land that would otherwise have been desert? | irrigation |
The Egyptians worshiped many gods so their religion was ______________. | polytheistic |
The Egyptians believed they would need their bodies for the afterlife so they _______________ their dead. | mummified |
the remains of early life that have been preserved | fossil |
0 degrees latitude | Equator |
0 degrees longitude | Prime Meridian |
half of a globe or sphere | hemisphere |
an account of a historical event created by someone who did not witness the event | secondary source |
an account of a historical event created by someone who witnessed the event | primary source |
the horizontal lines on a map that measure distances north and south of the Equator | latitude |
the vertical lines on a map that measure distances east and west of the Prime Meridian | longitude |
a human-made object with historical significance | artifact |
a group of years with some distinctive feature(s) in common | age, era, epoch |
the watering of crops | irrigation |
group of people with similar customs, background, training, and income | social class |
a skill in one type of work | specialization |
an amount produced in excess of what is needed | surplus |
the cultivation of soil to produce crops | agriculture |
human society with an advanced level of development in social and political organization and in the arts and sciences | civilization |
fertile soil deposited by a river | silt |
a person who specializes in writing and is a record keeper | scribe |
a political unit that includes a city and the nearby farmland | city-state |
a belief in many gods or goddesses | polytheism |
acceptance of beliefs, habits, or practices of others (Cyrus ruled using this ideal) | toleration |
a collection of many people and lands under the control of one ruler (Sargon created the first one) | empire |
a set of written rules (Hammurabi created the first one in history) | code of law |
Led an army in battle against the Hittites; Negotiated the worlds first known peace treaty; Built a city to honor himself with statues portraying himself as a god; Expanded Egyptian empire into Nubia and Eastern Mediterranean region | Ramses II |
Made Egypt richer through trade; Female pharaoh | Hatshepsut |
Relied on advisers to help him rule Egypt | Tutankhamen |
Art changed under his rule to portray pharaohs realistically; Promoted the worship of only one god (Aton, the sun god) | Akhenaton |
The soil along the Nile's banks is very ____________ due to the fact that the floods deposit minerals and silt there. | fertile |
The Nile branches into a _____________ at its mouth near the Mediterranean Sea. | delta |
Pharaoh ______________ ordered the construction of the largest pyramid ever built. | Khufu |
Under the rule of ______________, the Egyptians enjoyed peace, the expansion of the empire, and a stable government | Ramses II |
Queen Hatshepsut erected several _______________ to proclaim her glory as pharaoh | obelisks |
_______________ ordered a trading expedition to an African land to the south known as Punt. | Queen Hatshepsut |
Egyptians created a system of _______________ with about 700 characters. | heiroglyphs |
Some ancient Egyptians trained to be ______________, or people whose job it was to write and keep records | scribes |
Egyptian religion was one of the first to be based on a belief in a happy _______________. | afterlife |
Egyptian kings were given the title of ______________, which is a word that means "great house". | pharaoh |
Egyptians wrote some of the first books on a material made from the ______________ reed. | papyrus |
Egyptians used the fertile soil near the Nile to grow flax, which they used to make ______________. | linen |
In the south, the Nile churns with waterfalls, which are also called ______________. | cataracts |
Egyptians would ______________ dead bodies in order to preserve them. | embalm |
Early Africans believed in ____________, or that everything possesses a soul. | animism |
The ____________ people spread across Africa in one of the greatest migrations in human history. | Bantu |
Oral history was passed along by a _____________ in African societies | griot |
The order in which members of the Egyptian royal family would inherit the throne is called _____________. | succession |
The ______________ of the Bantu through Africa was a slow process that took thousands of years. | migration |
The ______________ people were the first in Africa to make iron. | Nok |
How long did the Bantu migration take? | thousands of years |
Which group invaded Egypt during the Middle Kingdom? | Hyksos |