Geography & Agriculture
This type of farming, used in the Andes, allowed crops like potatoes to grow on steep mountainsides.
What is terrace farming?
The Inca civilization developed in this South American mountain range.
What are the Andes?
The Aztec economy relied heavily on these artificial islands used for agriculture.
What are chinampas?
These people developed the first known writing system in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
In Sub-Saharan Africa, history was preserved primarily through this method rather than writing.
What is oral tradition?
Corn was a key crop in this region, earning it the nickname “the hearth of agriculture” in the Americas.
What is Mesoamerica?
The Incan government collected taxes in the form of labor through this system.
What is the mita system?
The Aztecs were part of this alliance of three city-states that dominated central Mexico.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Some civilizations, like the Indus Valley, have languages that are still classified as this.
What is undeciphered?
Between 900–1300, West Africa prized this commodity, often mined in the Sahara.
What is gold?
Farming first emerged in six regions, including Mesopotamia, Nile Valley, Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and this mountain region.
What is the Andes?
This Incan capital city was a political and cultural center.
What is Cuzco?
The Aztec capital city, built on an island in Lake Texcoco, was the heart of their empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This Indian empire supported Hinduism and ruled after the Maurya.
What is the Gupta Empire?
The Bantu migrations succeeded largely because of these types of tools and techniques.
What are iron tools and farming methods?
The staple food of the Maya civilization, forming the foundation of their diet.
What is corn?
The Incas built an extensive system of these to connect their empire
What are roads and bridges?
The Agricultural Revolution improved diets, created new technologies, and contributed to this social change.
What is social stratification?
The first Mesoamerican civilizations began when nomadic hunters settled in this valley.
What is the Valley of Mexico?
These city-states along Africa’s east coast were a product of the Indian Ocean Trade Network
What are Swahili city-states?
A term for a place where farming first began and later spread to other regions.
What is a hearth of agriculture?
Incan political organization was centralized and this type of government, with the emperor as both ruler and religious leader.
What is a theocratic monarchy?
This Spanish conquistador killed the Aztec king and helped end the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
list the 7 traits of a civilization
GWRAFTS
he Indian Ocean Trade Network was particularly stimulated by these East African settlements.
What are Swahili city-states?