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100

Makes river travel difficult

What are cataracts?

100
Term for items, like gold and salt, that the West African trading empires used to make a profit

What are commodities? 

100

Building on discriminating laws from the colonial era, the name of the system South Africa had from the 1940s to the 1990s that denied rights to blacks

What is apartheid?

100

This act of respect for others became popular in the Shang dynasty and continues to be popular with many Chinese today

What is filial piety?

100

The term for a job in the government

What is civil service?

200
Title for ancient Egyptian rulers

What is pharaoh? 

200

Another name for a storyteller

What is a griot?

200

The belief that Africa should be united and that solidarity among all Africans encouraged

What is Pan-Africanism

200
During the Shang dynasty, people would tell future based on their interpretation of this item, which led to the development of writing

What is an oracle bone?

200

The Ming made delicate, beautiful, and relatively strong for its thickness vases out of this material

What is porcelain?

300

Egyptians made paper from this plant

What is papyrus?

300

Belief that they is a spiritual aspect to items in nature, such as wind, trees, and rocks

What is animism?

300

Occurring or existing after a colonial rule

What is post-colonial?

300

Term for a royal family that passes down their rule

What is a dynasty?

300

Term for counting a population, typically for tax purposes

What is a census?

400

Place where a river connects with a larger body of water

What is a delta?

400
The empire of Nok made masks out of this clay (Hint: also used to make statues of warriors in the Qin dynasty of China)

What is terra cotta?

400
A system in which a stronger nation controls a weaker nation

What is imperialism?

400

A philosophy, promoted by Hanfeizi during the Zhou dynasty, that encouraged strict rules and punishments

What is legalism?
400

The east-west trade route across China

What is the Silk Road?

500
People high on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid because they could read and write
Who are scribes? 
500

Name of the type of worship building that Mansa Musa had built

What is a mosque?
500

The most prevalent Bantu language of Sub-Saharan Africa (Hint: Hakuna Matata)

What is Swahili?

500

A philosophy, developed during the Zhou dynasty, that encouraged living life in tune with nature

What is daoism?

500

A style of government that favors strict controls of business, property, and personal freedoms

What is communism?