Way back in Unit 1
Migrations and Locations
Japan and the Pacific
River Valley Civilizations
Cultural Blending
Friday News Roundup
100
Earth has five oceans: the Arctic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Southern, and this one, which long separated the New World from the Old World.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
Not to be confused with a pull factor, these factors are said the be the ones that drive a group of people to go somewhere else, like famine, war, and other problems.
What is a push factor?
100
Just one US state has a significant population of Pacific Islanders. Naturally it's this one; the state is literally an archipelago of islands in the pacific!
What is Hawai'i?
100
The Nile is the foundational river for this early civilization. Many pharoahs made their homes on its shores.
What is Egypt?
100
Cultural blending mixes art, music, language, and these tasty bits of culture. My favorite is my grandmother's one for blueberry pie!
What is a recipe?
100
This sporting association has just finished their draft; Maybe Cam Ward can change things up for the Titans!
What is the NFL?
200
These are how many of the first civilizations started, with just one town and the land around it being a whole sovereign country. There are still a handful around today, like Singapore, Vatican City, Hong Kong, or San Marino!
What is a city-state?
200
The Great Human Migration was, as the name suggests, the largest in human history, It tells of how humans got to all corners of the map after starting off in a small western corner of this continent.
What is Africa?
200
Oda Nobunaga was more than just a game changer in our class, he was a huge figure in Japanese history for introducing this flashy weapon to the islands and bringing the age of the samurai to an end.
What is a gun?
200
The Yellow and Yangtze rivers run through this original civilization. Their floods led to more than one dynasty changing.
What is China?
200
Despite their turbulent past, modern Hispanic culture is a blend of native Aztec, Maya, and Inca cultures with this, the conquistadors' home nation in Europe.
What is Spain?
200
Ukraine is seeking more help from the United States and the European Union for its war against this much larger nation.
What is Russia?
300
These types of sources are ones made not by someone who was there, but by someone else reporting on the facts later, with hindsight.
What is a secondary source?
300
This group travelled quite a bit across Europe and the North Atlantic. While mostly in pursuit of pillaging and stealing opportunities in their longboats, these guys did pull off a neat first: an expedition from Iceland was the first Old Worlder to reach the New World!
Who are the Vikings?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
Moana is a fun movie! It follows a teenage girl on her quest to return the heart of Te Fiti, a classic myth to this ancient seafaring people.
300
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers run in the middle of this earliest civilization. Their rough waters may have been what upset tyrants like Hammurabi or Cyrus the Great.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
While friendship is a pretty good way to mix cultures up, the quickest way is this ceremony, where two people commit to one another in love and matrimony.
What is a marriage?
300
The Vatican's conclave is over already! In just under 24 hours, the cardinals elected American-born Pope Leo XIV to replace this man, who died a few weeks back.
Who is Pope Francis?
400
The opposite of a scarcity, this word refers to when there are more resources than a group needs to survive.
What is a surplus?
400
Some migrations are fueled by war, like this multi-part saga of Christians and Muslims fighting for control of the Holy Land. Nobody won and millions died, but hey! Pope Urban said if I fought I was going to Heaven. Yippee!
What are the Crusades?
400
The first folks in Australia had this OG sounding name. Their animistic religion focused on the Dreamtime and individual identity found on a walkabout.
Who are the Aboriginal Australians?
400
The mother civilization for the Americas wasn't actually on a river valley. These giant head builders, native to central America, are the oldest in the New World.
Who are the Olmec?
400
Cultural blending was common in the Indian Ocean trade network, where Arabic traders blended with African locals, making this uniquely West African culture.
What is Swahili?
400
Israel continues its attacks on this strip of land between Egypt and the Mediterranean, home to over 2 million Muslims.
What is the Gaza Strip/Palestine?
500
This study of the ancient world through artifacts is how many new discoveries are made about prehistory. It might also make for a good magazine title if that's more your speed.
What is archaeology?
500
This central African group spread their culture (and their ironworking technology) all throughout the southern parts of Africa during their migration. You can see the effects: over 350 million people have a culture descended from theirs.
Who are the Bantu?
500
The islands of Japan were originally home to two cultural groups; the Japanese we know and this group of subarctic settlers that later inspired media like the waterbenders in "Avatar: the Last Airbender".
Who are the Ainu?
500
The Indus River matches the Indus River Valley Civilization. No points for guessing that! But this other sacred river in India is likely just as important for the folks living there.
What is the Ganges?
500
Cultural blending isn't just a thing of the past! It still happens whenever us Americans watch Bollywood movies, eat spicy Ethiopian food, or read new chapters of this Japanese form of comics (itself inspired by American superhero comics!)
What is manga?
500
Lines are backed up at DMVs around the country as people try to get their driver's licenses converted into RealIDs, as starting next week, you'll need one to be able to travel on one of these.
What is an airplane?