Civilization + Settlement
The method people used to gain food after they stopped hunting and gathering
What is agriculture?
The two rivers associated with Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The river associated with Egypt
The three rivers associated with India
What are the Indus, Ganges, and Bramaputra?
The two rivers associated with China
What are the Huang He and Yangtze?
The common geographic feature shared by most major early civilizations
What is a river / rivers?
The region in the world where Mesopotamia was located.
What is the Middle East?
The region in the world where ancient Egypt was located
What is North Africa?
Will also take Africa as an answer!
The region where ancient India was located
What is the Indian subcontinent?
If no one answers w/ subcontinent, will take India.
The continent that China is located on
What is Asia?
The time when people used rough stone tools and hunted and gathered to gain food.
What is the paleolithic age?
The seas and gulfs associated with Mesopotamia (hint: there are 5)
What are the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea?
The 4 deserts associated with ancient Egypt
What are the Nubian desert, the Libyan desert, the Eastern, and the Western deserts?
The two mountain ranges that create a northern barrier in India
What are the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountains?
The two major deserts within China
What are the Taklimakan and Gobi deserts?
The time when people began using advanced tools and agriculture to gain food
The invention used to prevent or respond to flooding
What is a levee?
The invention used to transport water for crops and cleanliness
What is irrigation?
Will also take aqueduct
The two 'mountain' ranges that border the coast of India
What are the Western and Eastern Ghats?
The plateau located within China
What is the Tibet-Qinghai plateau?
The 7 characteristics of a civilization
What are stable food supply, religion, government, writing, technology, social structure, arts
The Latin meaning of the word Mesopotamia
What is the land between the rivers?
What is the Nile flows upwards, as opposed to downward?
If no correct answers, will take there is only a single river - opposed to multiple.
The one river that people primarily settled on in India
What is the Indus river?
The invention used to create farmable land on mountainsides
What is terrace farming?