Geography
This massive sand box presents a massive barrier for the people of Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
These massive structures led water to Roman cities.
What are aqueducts.
This social ranking system divided Indus society into different classes based on their occupation. It also put non-aryans at the bottom of society.
What is the Caste System?
These architectural features characterized Roman structures. They were stolen from the Greeks.
What are columns?
All civilizations needed this for communication and record keeping. Some called it cuneiform, hieroglyphics, nahuatl, or script. It is also the reason you are able to get this information in a sentence.
What are systems of writing?
This rainy seasonal change was essential for the development of the Indus Valley civilization because it allowed for the growth of crops.
What is monsoon?
These 3 urban features tell us that Indus Valley cities were well-organized.
What are sewers, running water, and gridded streets?
This class of traders were actually at the bottom of Chinese society.
Who were the merchants?
This civilization invented the wheelbarrow, paper, rudder, and acupuncture.
Who were the Chinese?
In ancient Japan, this is where most people lived because of the mountainous geography.
Where were the coast and valleys?
This civilization was located in the Andes Mountains.
Who were the Inca?
These two products dominated the Sahara trade.
What are gold and salt?
These provided evidence that the people of the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys were actually quite organized with strong leaders.
What are the mounds?
This empire had a road system spanning 25,000 miles throughout South America that allowed armies and news to spread quickly.
Who were the Inca?
This was essential to all civilizations because not only did it lead to economic prosperity, but also the sharing of ideas.
What was trade?
China was isolated from the rest of the world because of these 4 geographic surroundings.
What are mountains, jungles, deserts. and an ocean?
This Chinese philosophy meant that if something bad happened, a new dynasty would take over.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Though the emperor was at the top of Japanese society, this position actually held the real power.
What is the Shogun?
These people preserve history and cultural traditions through their story telling in West Africa.
Who were griots?
According to hinduism, you can improve your social class in the next life by doing this.
What is living a "good" life?
These low mountains of Italy made it relatively easy to unify during the rise of Rome.
What are the Appennine Mountains?
The Aztecs collected these as taxes from their neighbors they conquered.
What are tributes?
Conflicts and wars caused this group to hide in the mountains and preserve a major world religion in East Africa.
Who were the Ethiopian Christians?
These stories were critical to preserving the history of Greece, the Indus Valley, and Africa.
What are epics?
Both the Maya and the Greeks had these rather than massive empires united by one leader.
What are city-states?