Geographic Features
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile River?
A material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface
What is papyrus?
A group of people that makes laws, carries out laws, and decides if laws have been broken
What is government?
Olympic games of today are modeled after the games of
What is Ancient Greece?
This river flows through much of China
What is the Huang He River?
Asia’s largest desert
What is the Gobi Desert?
People who use resources to make goods and/or provide services
What are producers?
Important rules written and carried out by government
What are laws?
Egypt's written language
What are hieroglyphics?
An important city in Mali. It had a famous university with a large library containing Greek and Roman books.
What is Timbuktu?
The largest hot desert in the world
What is the Sahara Desert?
A place where people live, work, and play
What is a community?
A government in which people vote to make their own rules and laws
What is direct democracy?
Created irrigation systems
What is Ancient Egypt?
Greece is located on a peninsula with many islands, surrounded by which body of water?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The largest tropical rainforest in the world; includes many types of plants and animals
What is the Amazon rainforest?
The design of buildings
What is architecture?
A government in which the people vote for (elect) a smaller group of citizens to make the rules and laws for everyone
What is a representative democracy?
Built roads to connect to land in western Europe and Africa
What is Ancient Rome?
A boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Italian Peninsula?
Home to some of highest peaks on Earth
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
Goods (e.g., machines, tools, buildings) made by people and used to produce other goods and services
What are capital resources?
Two groups of people who made significant contributions to society in terms of architecture, government, and sports.
What are the ancient Greeks and Romans?
Traded gold for salt from the Sahara Desert
What is West African empire of Mali?
These mountains separate the coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara Desert
What are the Atlas Mountains?