Geography
This theme of geography describes how humans change or adapt to their environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
Mesopotamia was sometimes called this because the area was shaped like a moon and the land was good for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Egypt was situated along this river.
What is the Nile?
The Chinese built this to protect them from invaders.
What is the Great Wall?
These are the two main rivers in India.
What are the Ganges and Indus?
This theme of geography focuses on where something can be found using coordinates or address.
What is location?
Mesopotamians invented this to bring water to crops.
What is irrigation?
These were kings in Ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
This was the most valuable thing the Chinese had to trade.
What is silk?
these are the two main religions in India.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
This part of geography focuses on the type of weather a place has.
What is climate?
The Mesopotamian civilization was situated between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Egyptians did this to help the dead reach the afterlife.
What is mumification?
The Chinese worshiped these (and still do).
What are ancestors?
This type of storm happens almost every day throughout the Summer in India.
What is a monsoon?
When looking at a compass, this direction is to the left.
What is west?
This was the form of writing used in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
The tomb of this king is significant because it was the first to be discovered without being opened since his burial.
Who is Tutankhamen?
This was the emperor who united all of China.
Who is Emperor Qin?
This type of social structure was used in India throughout their history. Once people were born into it, they were there for life.
What is a caste?
These lines go east and west, resembling a ladder.
What is latitude?
This man created one of the most famous law codes in history.
Who is Hammurabi?
Egyptians used this plant to make paper.
What is papyrus?
The Chinese civilization was situated around these two rivers.
What are the Yangtze and Yellow?
This person founded Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?