Vocabulary

World Religions

Famous Firsts

Skills Catch All

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Belief in more than one God.

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What is polytheism?

1

Imaginary lines that run east and west around the

world.

2

What is latitude?

2

Type of government where a small group of people rule (like Sparta)

3

What is an Oligarchy?

3

Line of rulers that comes from the same family.

4

What is a dynasty?

4

Greek word for city-state.

5

What is polis?

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Doesn’t believe in any gods.

What is Buddhism?

6

Believes in reincarnation

7

What is Hinduism and Buddhism?

7

Follows the 10 Commandments

8

What is Christianity and Judaism?

8

Followers are monotheistic

9

What Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

9

Started by a group of people (Aryans), not just

one person.

10

What is Hinduism?

10

First person to discover King Tut’s tomb.

11

Who is Howard Carter?

11

Athens had the first democracy. What does

that mean?

12

ALL citizens can vote

12

The Egyptians were the first to use a form of

picture writing called…

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13

What is hieroglyphics?

The first civilization began between which two

rivers?

14

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

14

The Phonecians were the first to create an

_____________ that we base ours on today.

15

What is an alphabet

15

This type of map shows boundaries of states and

countries.

16

What is a political map?

16

This kind of source did not experience an event. They are just passing

along the story.

17

What is a secondary source?

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This kind of map shows things like rivers and

mountain ranges.

18

What is a physical map?

18

Giving an address is an example of what kind of

location?

19

What is absolute location?

19

This kind of map shows how patterns or themes

are spread out (population, rainfall, etc.)

20

What is a special purpose map?

20

Give 3 differences between Athens and

Sparta.

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Athens: Strong Navy, Democracy, focused on Education

Sparta: Strong Army, oligarchy, Focused on war

21

Somerset is near Target is an example of what kind

of location?

22

What is Relative Location?

22

What 7Wonder of the World was located in

Babylon and was built by a king for his wife?

23

What is the Hanging Garden of Babylon?

23

Give three reasons for the fall of Rome

24

What is political instability, acts of nature, weakening borders,

economic problems, and moral decline?

24

What discovery allowed Jean Francois

Champollion to translate Egyptian Hieroglyphics?

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What is the Rosetta Stone?

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