Characteristics of Civilization
A large population center where people live and work together.
What is Urban Areas
This is often a process rather than one sudden event.
What is collapse of a civilization
This invention helped people travel farther from land.
What is a magnetic compass
The religious leader is associated with uniting nomadic tribes and the oasis cities of Medina and Mecca.
Who is Prophet Muhammad
Detail the process of collapse
What is Problem--> Pressure-->
New Problem-->Crisis
A lasting structure built to preserve a civilization's legacy.
What are monuments
This environmental problem can reduce harvests and lead to food crisis.
What is a drought
This invention made writing materials cheaper and helped people share books more quickly.
What is paper making
This is the area that was the location for the early unification south of the Byzantine Empire and the Persian Empire.
FOUR HUNDRED POINTS
This revolutionized human development
What is farming
Alphabets, number systems, signs, and symbols are examples of this characteristic.
What is shared communication
This sequence describes how problems may build toward collapse: problem, pressure, new problem...
What is a crisis
This printing method allowed many copies of books and documents to be made.
What is woodblock printing
These are two influential cities in the Islamic States.
1. Prophet Muhammad was born here.
2. Prophet Muhammad made this city the capital.
What is Mecca and What is Medina?
BONUS: 50 points
SIX HUNDRED POINTS
When is Miss Williams' Birthday?
What is March 11th
Roads, buildings, and the systems that help a civilization operate full under this characteristic.
What are infrastructure and administration
When leaders make competing claims to authority, decisions may slow while these conditions continue to worsen.
What are the problems caused by split leadership
This invention made trade easier, but governments could create economic problems by printing too much of it.
What is paper money
What is a caliph
BONUS! 50 POINTS
EIGTH HUNDRED POINTS
How old is Miss Williams' father?
What is 78
A society assigns different people specialized task and groups them by income and type of work.
What are division of labor and class structure
A solution to one problem can have this result, adding pressure instead of restoring stability.
What is another problem or unintended consequence
This invention was first discovered by alchemists searching for the elixir of life.
Bonus points (50pt) available for any team.
What is gunpowder
Who commissioned this search?
The caliphate that conquered surrounding empires of Byzantine and Persian and land stretching from India to Spain.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate
ONE THOUSAND POINTS
Who is Miss Williams' favorite author?
Who is Sarah J. Maas