The First Humans
Before settling down into organized civilizations, individuals lived nomadic lifestyles in order to survive. We call these earliest peoples ________ and _______.
What are hunters and gatherers?
The world's longest river.
What is the Nile River?
This type of economy relies on customs, traditions, and farming or bartering to produce and trade goods
What is a Traditional Economy?
The strong, warm OCEAN CURRENT that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and brings warm temperatures and rain to Europe
What is the Gulf Stream?
The longest mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes Mountains?
After thousands of years living nomadic lifestyles, the earliest humans finally began to establish permanent settlements once they learned how to do this activity.
What is agriculture?
A MANMADE waterway used by ships
What is a canal?
In this type of economy, the government makes all the decisions about what, how, and for whom goods are produced
What is a Command Economy?
The good climate has contributed to Europe's agriculture, and its long accessible coastlines and many navigable rivers have contributed to this activity
What is TRADE.
The biggest CARBON SINK (rain forest) in the world
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
The two activities that helped early societies develop over time into prosperous civilizations were agriculture and ___________.
What is trade?
The type of tectonic plate boundary that is transforming the African continent.
What is a divergent boundary?
In this type of economy, prices and production are determined by individuals and businesses competing in the marketplace with little government control
What is a Free Economy?
Europe's level of development decreased sharply after this event in 476 AD.
What is the Fall of Rome?
We first learned about THIS ISLAND where huge stone heads can be found when we studied OCEANIA, but it belongs to and lies off the coast of Chile in SOUTH AMERICA.
What is Easter Island?
A geographical PHYSICAL FEATURE that was essential for societies to become more DEVELOPED throughout history.
What is a river.
The overall health, education and income of the individuals of a country are used to establlish this METRIC that identifies a society's level of development.
What iis HDI?
This type of economy combines elements of both a free market and a command economy, with some decisions made by the government and others by individuals and businesses.
What is a Mixed Economy?
The Middle Ages are sometimes called Europe's "Dark Ages", but development increased sharply after the "Renaissance" or the rebirth of knowledge of these TWO ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
What are the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations?
The main environmental problem occurring in the Atacama Desert that one of our entrepreneurial thinkers is working to solve.
What is fast-fashion waste?
In ancient history, there was one main REGION encompassing Mesopotamia, modern day Syria, Lebanon and Israel that historians refer to as the birthplace of agriculture and civilization.
What is the FERTILE CRESCENT.
Countries with the lowest levels of development typically have most of their people working in this employment sector.
What is agriculture?
The tectonic plate boundary in Asia that can be attributed to the world's two most populated countries in the world.
What is convergent?
The POPULATION PROBLEM that nearly all of Western Europe's countries are currently facing.
What is aging and/or shrinking (low birth rates)?
The MAN-MADE WATERWAY ships can traverse to avoid sailing all the way around the southern tip of South America
What is the Panama Canal?