Water
What type of resource is fresh water?
Renewable Resource
Which rivers borded Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
What river did Egypt rely on?
The Nile
Which two rivers did Ancient China rely on?
The Yangtze and Yellow
A place where they have difficulty accessing goods and services is classified as what?
Remote
What is a low pressure system?
Where lots of air is evaporating and moving away from Earth's surface
What religion did Aryans bring into Egypt?
Hinduism
What was the first monotheistic religion?
Judaism
What philosophy believes in 5 key relationships?
Confucianism
The Human Development Index considers what and at what scale?
Income, Education, and Healthcare of a country
Where do Hurricanes form? And why there?
Near the equator, they need warm water
What is the oldest, readable language?
Cuneiform
Who is a famous Egyptian pharaoh?
Ramses II, Hatshepsut, Tut
How is silk made?
By boiling the cocoons of silkworms
What is a megacity?
A city with more than 10 million people
Which rainfall is caused when humid air is forced up the side of a mountain?
Orographic Rainfall
What is one of the explanations for the end of the IRV?
Climate change, invasion, or assimilation
What plant was used to make paper in Ancient Egypt?
Papyrus
Which job received the least respect in Chinese Society?
Merchants
What is a negative of urbanization?
Overcrowding, increase in crime, pollution, public heath crises, overstretched services
Water that is used to make other things is called what? (ex. the water used to grow cotton in order to make a pair of socks)
Virtual water
Most of the surviving IRV script is on what artifacts?
Seals / stamps
Why is the Battle of Kadesh important?
It ended with the first recorded peace treaty.
On what is the oldest Chinese Writing preserved?
On Oracle Bones
What is urban sprawl?
The unplanned growth of cities / suburbs