The First Humans
AFRICA
ASIA
EUROPE
LATIN AMERICA
100

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?

100

The world's longest river.

What is the Nile River?

100

The two most populated countries in the world.

What are India and China?

100

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?

100

The longest mountain range in the world.

What are the Andes Mountains?

200

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?

200

A MANMADE waterway used by ships

What is a canal?

200

The mountain range that serves as the origin of most of Asia's river systems.

What are the Himalayan Mountains.

200

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.

200

The biggest CARBON SINK (rain forest) in the world

What is the Amazon Rainforest?

300

The two activities that helped early societies develop over time into prosperous civilizations were agriculture and ___________.

What is trade?

300

The type of tectonic plate boundary that is transforming the African continent.

What is a divergent boundary?

300

The two Abrahamic religions that represent the two sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

What is Islam and Judaism?

300

Europe's level of development decreased sharply after this event in 476 AD.

What is the Fall of Rome?

300

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?

400

A geographical PHYSICAL FEATURE that was essential for societies to become more DEVELOPED throughout history. 

What is a river.

400

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?

400

Most of the cargo ships carrying goods from East Asia to Africa, West Asia, and Europe travel through the Strait of Malacca and is a leading factor in transforming this island nation into one of Asia's most developed, rich countries.

What is Singapore?

400

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?

400

The main environmental problem occurring in the Atacama Desert that one of our entrepreneurial thinkers is working to solve.

What is fast-fashion waste?

500

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.

500

Countries with the lowest levels of development typically have most of their people working in this employment sector.

What is agriculture?

500

The tectonic plate boundary in Asia that can be attributed to the world's two most populated countries in the world.

What is convergent?

500

The POPULATION PROBLEM that nearly all of Western Europe's countries are currently facing.

What is aging and/or shrinking (low birth rates)?

500

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?

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