Islam
The _____ has borders on the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
A. Persian Gulf; B. Black Sea; C. Iberian Peninsula; D. Arabian Peninsula
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
Which desert covers much of North Africa?
A. The Libyan Desert; B. The Sahara; C. The Gobi; D. The Kalahari
What is the Sahara?
What geographic zone attracted the highest population count?
A. Central plateau; B. Western highlands; C. Coastal lowlands; D. Northern deserts
What are the coastal lowlands?
Japan consists of ______ large islands.
Which of three three Latin American civilizations in the textbook thrived in South America?
What is the Inca?
What body of water connects the Arabian Peninsula to Europe?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Atlantic Ocean borders Africa to the west, and the _______ Ocean borders Africa to the east.
What is the Indian Ocean?
Name the two major rivers that flow through China.
What are the Huang He (Yellow) River and Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River?
Why was farming challenging in Japan?
What is mountainous terrain? Mountains made up 3/4 of Japan.
Which of three three Latin American civilizations in the textbook developed furthest to the north?
What is the Aztec?
What kinds of animals were raised on the Arabian Peninsula (name three)?
What are sheep, goats, and camels?
The Senegal and the _______ river make the Sahel very fertile land.
A. Niger; B. Congo; C. Nile; D. Zambezi
What is the Niger River?
How did China’s geography influence the direction in which rulers chose to expand their empires? Name 2 specific geographic features.
What are harsh physical features? The Gobi Desert, Taklimakan Desert, Plateau of Tibet, and Himalaya Mountains confined the expansion of China to the lowlands along the coast and to the plateau of central China.
What is the largest island in Japan?
What is Honshu?
What connects Central America to South America?
A. Isthmus of Panama; B. Caribbean Sea; C. Mexico; D. Amazon Rainforest
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
According to the map, which city outside of Africa is closest to Cairo?
A. Jerusalem; B. Tripoli; C. Baghdad; D. Constantinople
What is Jerusalem?
Name the three kingdoms of West Africa.
What are the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
What are the five dynasties of Imperial China pictured in the maps?
What are the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties?
Which two types of natural disasters are relatively common in Japan?
What are volcanoes and earthquakes?
What is the longest river in South America?
What is the Amazon?
After crossing the Strait of Gibraltar where Africa and Europe nearly meet and conquering the Iberian Peninsula, Muslim armies were likely slowed by what physical feature?
A. The Mediterranean Sea; B. The Alps; C. The Pyrenees Mountains; D. The Spanish Inquisition
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
Name the four vegetation zones of West Africa.
What are the Desert, Desert Scrub, Temperate Grassland, Tropical Grassland (or savanna)?
Suppose traders were traveling from eastern China to the Mediterranean region. What 3 physical features in China would they have had to cross?
What are the Gobi Desert, the Taklimakan Desert, and the Tian Shan mountains?
Which two countries influenced Japan's culture by way of Korea?
What are China and India?
Consider the geographic features of all three civilizations. What did they have in common that enabled them to thrive?
What are enough water and fertile soil to grow crops?