Farming 101
Rivers
Regions
Vocabulary
Dates
100
Farmers in India grew grain like the Mesopotamians, but they also grew these two products.
What are melon and cotton?
100
In India.
What is the Indus?
100
A large, dry, and hot area west of Egypt.
What is the Sahara desert?
100
The ancient circular mounds that Indian cities were built around.
What are citadels?
100
Indus Valley Civilization was abandoned in this year.
What is 1750 BC/BCE?
200
Another way that the Indian farmer was different from the Mesopotamian farmer was he used these two animals.
What are elephants and water buffalo?
200
Traveling by sea/water was ________ and ______ than traveling by land.
What is easier and faster?
200
The people who once lived in the Sahara moved to this location.
South (towards the center of Egypt)
200
The term used to describe when a family rules one country for many years.
What is a dynasty?
200
This took place in Africa in 3500 BC/BCE.
What is climate change?
300
In China, the farmers grew a different kind of grain called this.
What is rice?
300
Longest river in Asia.
What is the Yangtze river?
300
India's nickname.
What is the east?
300
Writing used during the shang dynasty.
What are pictograms?
300
This dynasty ruled between 1766-1122 BC/BCE.
What is T'ang?
400
This is the type of soil that the Chinese farmers need to raise their special type of grain.
What is soil that is wet all year?
400
Its epithet describes the color of the muddy water as silt is transported downstream.
What is the yellow river?
400
China was called the Far East for this reason.
What is it was all the way the way to the edge of the world to the Mesopotamians? (or something similar)
400
The emperor who united China.
Who is Huang Di?
400
Harappan civilization was strongest between this time period.
What is 2000 and 1750 BC/BCE?
500
Farmers in China raised these three groups of animals.
What are pigs, chickens, and cows?
500
True or false: the rivers in China often flooded.
What is true?
500
The land between two rivers is called what?
What is a valley?
500
A favorite character of African storytellers.
Who is Anansi the Spider?
500
Mohenjo Daro was rediscovered in this year.
What is 1922?
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