What is the name of the partial skeleton that showed humans walked upright around 3.2 million years ago?
Lucy
Country where the Renaissance started
Italy
What are the two major resources that are found in many Southwest Asian countries?
oil and gas
What is anime, and what popular form of artwork is it based on?
Anime is a style of animation, or cartoon. Closely related to Manga.
What country colonized Brazil?
Portugal
What word best describes when one country rules over other areas by sending people to live there?
Colonization
A warrior on horseback, 3rd tier in the Feudalism pyramid
A Knight
What is the name given to the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where the first civilization began
Mesopotamia
What is the difference between a peninsula and an island?
An island is surrounded by water on all sides, a peninsula is surrounded by water on three sides.
Name of the stretch of plains in the middle of America
The Great Basin
What is the definition of desertification?
What is fertile land rapidly becoming desert as a result of drought, deforestation, and intensive agriculture.
The period from the fall of Rome 476 to 1500
the Middle Ages
What is the word used to describe a group of people who share a distinct language, culture, and identity?
Ethnic group
What are the differences in governments between North and South Korea?
North Korea - Communist
South Korea - Democratic
What is the name of the land bridge that connected North America to Asia?
The Bearing Strait
Which major religion was brought to North Africa by Arab traders in the 600s CE?
Islam
Man sent to find a trade route to India but found the Carribean
Christopher Columbus
According to Islam, who is considered to be the messenger of God?
Muhammad
Which Southeast Asian country became a U.S. territory in the late 1800s after the Spanish-American War?
the Philippines
The idea that people should be free to rule themselves developed into what form of government?
Democracy
What are the three actions that can be taken to block trade between countries?
What are tariffs, quotas, embargoes?
Many believed that this was the highest authority over both religious and worldly leaders
The Church
What are the names that monarchs in Southwest Asia are known as?
Sultan
What is the term for a group of closely related islands?
Archipelago
What is the term used to describe the original people of New Zealand?
Aborigines