West Africa
This religion spread to West Africa with the help of traders from the Middle East.
What is Islam?
The name of one of the earliest human remains found in East Africa.
Who is Lucy?
Both the Aztecs and Maya were conquered by this empire.
Who are the Spanish?
The Inca lived on these mountains.
What are the Andes mountains?
This civilization originated on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
The name of the network of trade-routes leading from North Africa and the Middle East into West Africa.
What is the trans-Saharan trade?
The river that both Egypt and Nubia existed along.
What is the Nile?
This city was the capital of the Aztec Empire.
Unlike the Aztecs and Maya, the Inca did not practice this.
What is human sacrifice?
This empire ruled over what was known as India's Golden Age.
What was the Gupta Empire?
Like all Muslims are expected to do, Mansa Musa took his pilgrimage to this city.
What is Mecca?
Egypt and Nubia both built these.
What are pyramids?
What is the calendar?
The Inca did not have a written language, instead they used these.
What are quipus?
This Greek tyrant was known as the "bad tyrant" and created a strict law code.
Who was Draco?
The name for the local polytheistic religions of West Africa.
What is animism?
The name of the type of language written by both the Egyptians and Nubians.
What are hieroglyphics?
The Aztecs built their capital city on this now-dried-up lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
The Incas did this to farm on the side of mountains.
What is terrace farming?
This civilization sailed the Mediterranean, founded Carthage, and invented purple dye and the alphabet.
Who were the Phoenicians?
The ruler who founded the Mali Empire.
Who is Mansa Sundiata?
These are African storytellers who use song and poetry to preserve legends and history.
What are griots?
The Maya did not have a king, instead, society was organized into these.
What are independent city-states?
These were the two major cities in the Inca Empire.
What are Cuzco and Machu Picchu?
This general was the mortal enemy of the Romans and almost destroyed their empire.
Who is Hannibal?