Socail Studis Flashcards
(26 cards)
What is the purpose of scales on maps
To represent the distances between points
0 degrees latitude is know as the ______
Equator
0 degrees longitude is know as the _______
Prime meridian
What’s the purpose of the compass on maps
To show the direction
180 degrees west is know as the _______
International date line
What European country does the prime meridian go through
England
Which contenet was not reached by until 9000BC
Antarctica
Define agriculture
Farming
Define land brodge
A strip of land conecting two continents
What were land bridges used for
Crossing over into another continent
Define domestication
The process of making plants and animals more useful
Difine distribute
To give
What animal bone was used to build early houses
Mammoths
Difine polytheism
The worship of many gods
What happens at the international dat line
The date/day changes
Define social heirarchy
The didvision of society by rank or class
The army of ________ defeated all city states of Sumer and northern Mesopotamia
Sargon
The Sumerians used sharp _________ to make symbols are on clay tablets
Styluses/reeds
After death of Sargon this city state rose to power
UR
The king of who became a legendary figure to Sumerian liture
Gilgamesh
Define irrigation
A way of supplying water to an area of land
Define epics
Long poems that tell story’s of heroes
Pharaoh best know do monuments built to him was
Khufu
What is an imaginary creature with a body of a lion and and a head of another animal
Shynx
