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SS Final: Review
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An invisible line on the Earth that goes vertical | longitude |
| An invisible line on the Earth that goes horizontal | latitude |
| A continent that is direcly above Africa | Europe |
| The largest continent | Asia |
| A problem that historians face | many important sources have been destroyed or lost |
| Stories passed down from one generation to another by mouth | oral tradition |
| The study of remains from the past cultures | archeology |
| An object made by someone in the past | artifact |
| Once people could build fires | they could survive in the cold |
| Shaping stones to use in hunting is a kind of | technology |
| Historians and detectives are alike because | they use clues to solve mysteries |
| An extra supply of something | surplus |
| Most significant development in human histoty was | agriculture |
| A group of lands and people under one government | empire |
| Egypt's supreme ruler | pharoah |
| Paper made from reeds | papyrus |
| People trained how to write hieroglyphics | scribes |
| The pharoahs were what by their people | worshipped |
| People who study ancient Egypt found out how to read heiroglyphics by studying | Rosetta Stone |
| Most of Egypt is made of | desert |
| A pharaoh who unified all of Egypt by overthrowing the king of Lower Egypt | Menes |
| A pharaoh who organized a two year expedition to Punt, expanding trade | Hatshepsut |
| Ordered construction of great pyramid | Khufu |
| This made it hard to farm in southern Mesopotamia | droughts and irregular floods |
| Israelites left Canaan and went to Egypt to | find food |
| Hebrew law and governing religious belief and behavior was based on | Ten Commandments |
| Sumerians system of writing | cuneiform |
| Important hero to Sumerians | Gilgamesh |
| This pharaoh built dams and attacked Sumerians | Hammurabi |
| Mesopotamians made this irrigation system to control Euphrates and Tigris River | canals and dikes |
| People may have left Mohenjo Daro because of | an earthquake |
| Most of the water that floods the Indus River comes from | snow from the Himalayas |
| This made historians think Mohenjo Daro had a strong government | sewer system design |
| This is why historians don't know much about the Harappan civilization | they haven't been able to translate their written records |
| Buddhism is different than Hinduism because | the most important goal is to reach peace and end suffering |
| Hindu's are divided into groups called | castes |
| This is what they called people if they broke the rules of their caste | outcastes |
| Emperor Wudi was responsible for overseeing the construction of | school |
| During the Shihuangdi's dynasty land was owned by | nobles |
| Chinese is different from English because it has | characters |
| Shihuangdi helped unify China by setting up a single system of | money, measurement, and writing |
| Special priests who are believed to get messages from the gods | oracles |
| The Shang used this to predict the future | oracle bones |
| Loess made problems for the Huang Valley farmers because | it clogged irrigation ditches |
| Two major seas of the "Greek World" | Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea |
| Long poems such as Homers The Iliad and The Odyssey are called | epics |
| Marketplace of an Athenian city | agora |
| In Alexandria Alexander the Great was given the title | pharaoh |
| A Greek philosopher who taught Alex to love philosophy and Greek ways | Aristotle |
| Alex was able to spread Greek culture by | blending it with other cultures |
| The traditional Olympic games began as | a festival to honor Zeus |
| A city state was called this in Greece | polis |
| This Greek city state was known for its military way of life | Sparta |
| Because they believed in justice and fairness the Greeks developed a system which people | made their own laws (reasonable ones) |
| Only these people had a right to vote | male citizens |
| A philosopher who questioned Athenian wals customs and religion | Socrates |
| A Macedonian king who conquered Greece and made it part of his empire | Alex |
| A government ruled by a few rich powerful people | oligarchy |
| What shape is Italy | a boot |
| What is the island off of Italy (Hint: known as the ball being kicked) | Sicily |
| The main river in Rome | Tiber |
| Hills in rome | seven |
| The plain where Rome is located | Latium |
| This mountain range separates Italy from the rest of Europe | Alps |
| Twelve Tables | Where Roman laws were written down |
| Tribunes did this for the plebians | worked to gain rights for plebians |
| Slaves | debtors, criminals, and/or prisoners of war |
| Spinning so important for woman to know because | they had to make clothes for family |
| Most children died before 12 in Ancient Rome because | of war |
| Three main groups of people tied in early Rome were | Latins, Greeks, and Etruscans |
| Japanese hold this geographical feature sacred | Mt. Fuji |
| During Meji Restoration power was returned to | Emperor |
| During WWII the US dropped the atomic bomb on | Hiroshima |
| A deliberate attack on one group | Holocaust |
| Separation of whites and blacks in Africa is called | apartheid |
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