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100

a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming


What is a terrace?
100

A deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth


What is a gulf?
100

An image or representation of a god used as an object of worship

What is a religious idol?
100

Medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims


What are the Crusades?
200

An area of relatively level high ground

What is a plateau?
200

A large, distinguishable part of a continent


What is a subcontinent?
200

The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices

What is Christianity?
200

A line of hereditary rulers of a country

What is a dynasty?
300

The highest point of a hill or mountain

What is a summit?
300

A major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur


What is the Ring of Fire?
300

The monotheistic religion of the Jews

What is Judaism?
300

Ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia


What is the Silk Road?
400

A fan-shaped mass of fertile soil deposited as the flow of a river decreases in velocity


What is an alluvial fan?
400

Pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle


What are tectonic plates?
400

The religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah


What is Islam?
400

A historical region in West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system


What is Mesopotamia?
500

A region where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Ancient Egypt thrived; unusually fertile soil


What is the fertile crescent?
500

A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia

What is the Eurasian Steppe?
500

The tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development


What is Buddhism?
500

Ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia


What is cuneiform?