The West African empires traded salt and gold as a form of currency.
What is ECONOMY?
100
This empire was known for its brutal use of human sacrifice to please their Sun god.
Who were the AZTECS?
100
This object carried fresh water throughout the Roman empire; it stood nearly 30 feet off the ground and were designed to look like archways.
What is an aqueduct?
100
All three West African empires shared this natural resource which allowed for trade and transportation of goods.
What is the Niger River?
100
This is the NFL team that Ms. Krieg thinks is better than the Bears.
What is the Packers?
200
The Roman Empire was home to many famous sculptors and artists who created beautiful masterpieces.
What is SOCIOLOGY?
200
This empire was known for its creation of giant head sculptures.
Who were the MALI empire?
200
The Aztecs built many of these "floating gardens" to adapt to the swampy climate of Tenochtitlan.
What are Chinampas?
200
At its height, the Roman empire expanded over these two continents.
What are (North) Africa and Europe?
200
The Aztecs had this form of government.
What is Totalitarian?
300
The Aztec empire had to build dikes in order to adapt to the surrounding climate and rising water levels.
What is GEOGRAPHY?
300
This empire wrote laws to improve the empire and would change if the interests of the people changed.
Who were the ROMANS?
300
The Songhay empire became one of the largest empires because its army had these to make fighting easier and more effective.
What are horses and camels?
300
This development in human survival allowed once nomadic travelers to become established civilizations.
What is agriculture OR animal domestication?
300
The fall of the Aztec empire was due to this group of conquerors.
Who is Hernan Cortez and his conquistadors?
400
The Songhay empire was known for being the most powerful and largest empire in West Africa.
What is HISTORY?
400
This empire is one of the oldest kingdoms of Africa.
Who is Ghana?
400
The Mali empire created this system to help give accurate value to its currency, which was gold and salt at the time.
What is a weighing or scale system?
400
This West African empire was the most powerful and largest, having taken control over the other two civilizations.
What is SONGHAY?
400
This was the name of the last ruler of the Aztecs before they were attacked and taken over by European conquerors.
Who is Montezuma?
500
The Roman empire based its education system on the literary words of Ptolemy; his theories included history, geography, astronomy, architecture, and medical knowledge.
What is SOCIOLOGY?
500
Legend says that this empire founded its city when they saw an eagle perched on a cactus.
Who were the Aztecs?
500
Though the Aztecs had no alphabet for writing language, they instead used this system of writing which consisted of a series of images written or carved on stone.
What are hieroglyphics?
500
These shared forms of currency allowed the three West African empires to trade and put value on bought goods.
What are gold and salt?
500
These are the four types of Geographical features of Geography.
What are Bodies of Water, Landforms, Climate and Weather?