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This revolution marked the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and animal domestication.
What is the Neolithic Revolution
This river supported the development of Ancient Egypt by providing fertile silt.
What is the Nile River?
This crop, also known as corn, was extremely important to Mesoamerican civilizations.
What is maize?
This river is often called the Huang He and was important to the development of early Chinese civilization.
What is the Yellow River?
This leader united the Mongol tribes and founded the Mongol Empire.
Who is Genghis Khan?
Muslim merchants helped spread Islam across Afro-Eurasia primarily through this process, which also encouraged the exchange of goods, technologies, and ideas
What is trade?
These three religions are monotheistic and originated in the Middle East.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
This was the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
These two valuable goods were especially important to the Trans-Saharan trade.
What are gold and salt?
This European traveler visited the Mongol Empire and helped Europeans learn more about Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
This Mesopotamian ruler created one of the earliest known written law codes.
Who is Hammurabi?
This religion teaches about karma and reincarnation and originated in South Asia.
What is Hinduism?
This Buddhist concept is the path toward ending suffering and achieving Nirvana.
What is the Eightfold Path?
Which civilization was the largest empire in the Americas and became known for terrace farming?
What is the Inca Empire?
What does "domestication" mean?
Adapting plants and animals for human use.
Explain two ways the Neolithic Revolution changed human society.
It led to population growth, permanent settlements, cities, specialized jobs, and more complex societies.
This West African empire became wealthy by controlling important gold and salt trade routes across the Sahara and reached its height under Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
Confucianism and Daoism both developed in China, but one emphasized nature, harmony, and balance while the other emphasized social relationships and responsibility. Identify which is which.
Confucianism: emphasized social relationships and responsibility
Daoism: emphasized nature, harmony, and balance
This term refers broadly to the lands and societies connected by the Islamic world.
What is Dar al-Islam?
What does monotheism mean?
Belief in one god.
This Chinese dynasty began trade along the Silk Roads, strengthened the imperial bureaucracy, and experienced major economic growth, including increased use of paper money.
*Hint*: Dynasty before Mongol takeover
What is the Song Dynasty?
This founder of Buddhism became known as "the Buddha."
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The Inca used this system of knots and strings for record keeping.
What is quipu?
This West African city became an important center of trade and learning.
What is Timbuktu?
Which civilization developed cuneiform?
Mesopotamia.