Location
Effects
Agriculture
Rivers
Grab Bag
100
Egypt
What civilization developed on the Nile River?
100
Egypt is surrounded by two deserts. How did this help them?
Protected them from invaders.
100
Name two crops from Africa.
Sweet potatoes, bananas, yams.
100
Name one benefit to living on a river
What is Fishing, Flooding (for crops), Water Source, Transportation/Trade
100
Why is agriculture preferable to a nomadic lifestyle?
Food, stability, larger population, defensibility.
200
Mesopotamia is situated by what two rivers?
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates.
200
Why did so many South American civilizations live in the mountains?
Religion, protection, safety, specialized crops.
200
What food, from Ancient Peru, became a world-wide staple?
Potatoes.
200
Name three challenges to living on a river.
What is flooding (damage to infrastructure), disease, other people want to take your land, limited space, seasonal water supply.
200
How do rivers affect trade with other civilizations?
They create trade routes to transport goods.
300
What prompted the Bantu migration in Africa?
The Expansion of the Sahara desert
300
How does flooding help agriculture?
What is it fertilizes/irrigates crops.
300
What civilization had an advanced system/technology for transporting water? (Irrigation, plumbing, etc)
What is Indus River Valley
300
Where did the first civilizations in Ancient America develop?
Mesoamerica
400
What two seas border Greece?
The Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean
400
How did the Mediterranean Sea affect Roman expansion?
Transportation/trade routes.
400
Name four early crops grown in Mexico.
Beans, gourds, squashes, avocados, chilies, corn.
400
Why is the Yellow River 'yellow'?
It transports a lot of desert sand and silt.
400
How did geography influence Egyptian religion? (Hint: it's affected other religions, too.)
Rivers are associated with the underworld.
500
Name four geographical features that protect and isolate China.
The Pacific Ocean, the Himalayas, the Gobi Desert, the Taklimakan Desert, the Yellow Sea, Plateau of Tibet, Mongolian Plateau
500
What civilization owes its beginnings to a massive flood that wiped out the civilization before them?
China.
500
How does agriculture lead to advanced civilization?
Agriculture = larger, stable populations = specialization and co-dependence = advanced civilization.
500
How big is the Sahara desert?
About the size of the United States.
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