history question
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histest1question.docxFrom the power point on the 5 themes of Geography please answer the following.
1. Explain the difference between relative and absolute location.
2. What is meant by the term Human-Environmental Interaction and give an example of this?
3. What moves and what is the larger effect or impact of this movement?
4. What is a region?
From the Early Man power point define the following.
Archeologist
Artifact- give an example
Domestication
Hunter/Gatherer
Nomad
Hominids- read all the info I provided for this.
Irrigation- be very specific
Division of Labor
From the Early Man Power Point.
Who is Lucy?
What were the characteristics of Homo Hablis?
of Neandrthrals?
of Homo Erectus?
From the Early Man Power Point
1. Discuss why civilizations began.
2. Where did civilizations first develop?
3. What are 6 of the characteristics of a civilization.
4. What is meant by the term division of labor?
5. What are 4 characteristics of an advanced civilization or society.
From the Mesopotamia Power Points. Answer the following.
1. What was the Fertile Crescent?
2. What were the two main rivers the Fertile Crescent developed on?
3. Who was Sargon?
4. What city state was Hammurabi king of?
5. What did Hammurabi create?
6. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked which group of people?
7. What did Nebuchadnezzar destroy that is important to these people?
8. What does Nebuchadnezzar build in Babylon?
9. What were the Assyrians like?
10. Give 3 examples of Assyrian behavior?
11. What was the name of the Assyrian capital?
The Jews.
1. What was the name of their Holy Book?
2. What part of the Bible is this book located in?
3. What do the Jews believe about themselves?
4. What is different about their beliefs as compared to the other civilizations discussed so far?
5. How do the Jews view God?
6. What is meant by diaspora?
From the Egypt notes:
1. What was the Rosetta Stone?
2. What languages were on the stone?
3. Which language helped decode the hieroglyphics?
4. What are hieroglyphics, be very specific?
5. What are Mastabas?
6. What did Djoser make his pyramid out of?
7. Why were Pyramids built?
8. What did Pharaohs take with them to the afterlife?
9. Which pyramids are seen as the most perfect and the ones most of us recognize today? Think location, the Pyramids of ____.
The Phoenicians.
1. Name two products they produced?
2. Why were they able to produce those products?
3. Explain their alphabet and the significance of it over cuneiform in Sumeria and Babylon.
In this answer be sure to discuss exactly what the Phoenician alphabet was like, exactly what cuneiform was like and why cuneiform would not be desirable in a trading area such as Phoenicia.
