Social Studies Midterm Review
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- recieve the same injury
- The Code of Hammurabi stated that anyone who injured someone would
- The Aryans
- Who came from India and Europe tp live in the Indus River Valley
- Developing religous beiefs
- An acheivment of the people in the Old Stone Age was
- technology
- THe use of skills and tools is called
- sanskrit
- What is an ancient Indian language
- government
- The form of ruling in a country is called the
- Vedas
- What was known as the books of knowledge
- climate
- The weather pattern over a course of time
- citadel
- Many anciet cities had a massive fort called a what for protection
- Dharma
- Religous laws that explain right and good acts are called its
- Reincarnation
- What is the belef that people move in a cycle of birth, death and rebirth
- geography
- The study of earth and its features
- values
- The ideas or beliefs that guide the way people live are called
- longitude
- Imaginary lines that measure east to west are called lines of
- city-state
- A self governing city
- worshipped as gods
- Sumerian rulers were'nt
- The domestication of animals and the cultivation of land
- What two developments resulted in the establishment of villages during the New Stone Age
- meridian
- Another name for a line of longitude is
- barter
- The of one product for another without using money is called
- a steady food supply
- What led early people to settle in villages
- buisness skill
- Writing was considered a
- region
- When we refer to a specific area we call it a
- parallels
- Another term used to describe latitude is
- write down laws
- THe Code of Hammurabi was the worlds first efort to
- 40,000
- About how many people lived in Monejo Daro
- one god
- The religion of the ancient Hebrews differ from other Middle Eastern religions because it was based on a belief in
- artifacts
- Objects made by people long ago are called
- nomads
- Before they conquered Mesopatamia, the Babylonians were
- ziggurats
- Temples built by the Sumerians to honor the Gods and Goddesses they worshiped
- polytheism
- Belief in many gods is called
- primary source
- A personal diary is an exxample of a
- rich silt deposists
- Frequent floods left
- Mt. Everest
- What is the highest mountain in the world
- Hinduism
- What is the religion started in the Indus Valley that was influenced by the Aryans
- building canals and dikes
- The Mesopatamians tamed the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers by
- Harappan Civilization
- The entire anciant Indian Civilization is called the
- textbook
- An example of a secondary source is a
- Caste System
- The people of India are divided into to four gruops called the
- degrees
- Unit of measure that are used with lines of latitude and longitude are called
- flint
- Stone Age hunters made tools such as axes from
- farming
- At the beg. of the New Stone Age , people began
- New Dehli
- The capital city of India is
- culture
- The food people eat often reflects their
- drought
- a long period of dry weather ic called a
- global grid
- If you combine the lines of latitude and longitude you get a
- has rich soil and is shaped like a crescent
- The fertle crescent got its name because it
- Mohenjo Daro
- What means "Mound of the Dead"
- irrigating their fields
- Like the Egyptians of the Nile River Valley,Mesopatamians met the challenge of a dry climate by
- government
- An orginized set of rules and laws used to set up a society and run it is called
- Ten Commandments
- Hebrew law governing religous belief and behavior was based on
- archaeologists
- People who study the remaind of past cultures are
- cultural interaction
- The mixing of cultural ideas and customs ic called
- social groups
- Families clubs and teams are types of
- land between two rivers
- In the Greek language the name Mesopatamia means
- culture
- The combination of customs, values and how we deal with the climate is called our
- Abraham
- During the time Hammurabi ruled Mesopatamia, the great leader of the Hebrews was
- cuneiform
- The Sumerians invented a system of writng called
- customs
- Rituals and habits we repeat over and over are called
- Hanging Gardens
- The Babylonians built a magnificiant palace known as the
- shelter
- People throughout the world hsave a need for
- Himilayas
- What is the highest mountain range in the world
- hunting and gathering
- The people of the Old Stone Age met their needs by