Mid-term Study Guide.

Culture is beliefs, customs, and art of a group.

If a country wanted to make a better government what would be the best piece of information to use to start?    

You would look at past civilization’s documents.

A fossil is part or imprint in stone of something that once lived.

Which of the following would a physical geographer study?

Landforms 

Which of the following is an example of a physical feature?

desert

Which of the following defines a hominid?

An early ancestor of humans

Which of the following defines Homo Erectus?

Upright man

Hunter- gatherers societies in the Old Stone Age had all the following except

religion

Which of the following best defines a land bridge?

A strip of land that connects two continents.

Which of the following statements best summarizes why people learned how to make clothes and build shelters after migrating out of Africa?

They needed more protection to survive in colder areas.

What two land features gave Mesopotamia its name?

Euphrates and Tigris Rivers

What purpose did the wall around the city serve?

Scribes had power in the Sumerian society. What can you conclude from this?

People who could read and write were important.

Which of the following best describes cuneiform?

Uses wedge shaped symbols

The Nile River flows through two important regions in Egypt called  Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt

Pyramids are tombs that have four walls that meet together at a point.

The first pharaoh and rulers after him wore a double crown to symbolize they ruled over both Upper and Lower Egypt.

Who would the people of Egypt blame if crops did not grow or if disease struck? The pharaoh

Which of the following beliefs was central to Egyptian religion?

Afterlife

Vocabulary words for:

Studying the past:

Fossil                                                        

Artifacts

Culture

Climate

Archaeology

Early Humans:

Ancestor

Ice ages

Domestication

Mammoth

Migrate

Mesopotamia:

Social hierarchy

Polytheism

Irrigation

Silt

Fertile Crescent

Egypt:

Papyrus

Engineering

Mummies

Nobles

Cataracts

Pharaoh

42) Complete the table: List two examples of the following:

Artifact	Fossil	Primary Source	Secondary Source
Bow & arrows	poop	journal	Text book
pot	bone	newspaper	newspaper

43) What were the two problems that the farmers in Mesopotamia had and how did they solve them?

Flooding and drought.

Irrigation – irrigation canals, levees, and reservoirs.

44) What are the effects of having food surpluses?

Population goes up.

Specialization/division of labor.

Trade.

45) What are the natural barriers that protected Ancient Egypt from invasion?

Western desert, Sahara Desert.

Eastern Desert & Red Sea

Mediterranean Sea

Cataracts