Foundations of Civilization
This invention allowed humans to stop being nomads and settle in one place.
What is agriculture (farming)?
This river was home to Ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
The term for believing in many gods, which described all early river valley civilizations.
What is polytheistic (or polytheism)?
This form of government, invented by the Greeks, allowed citizens to have a say in how they were ruled.
What is democracy?
These West African storytellers preserved history and culture through oral tradition.
What are griots?
The term for people who move from place to place without a permanent home.
What are nomads?
This vast desert in North Africa was crossed by trade routes that brought Islam to West Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The term for believing in one God, which emerged with Judaism and spread through Christianity and Islam.
What is monotheism?
This empire built a massive network of roads and spread a unified culture across three continents.
What is Rome (or the Roman Empire)?
Name one unique contribution of Ancient Egypt, India, or China mentioned in the text.
What are: pyramids (Egypt), mathematics/zero (India), or character writing (China)?
The type of valleys where the first civilizations all began, named for the rivers that flowed through them.
What are river valleys?
Match each civilization to its river: Egypt, India, China. (100 points each)
What are: Egypt-Nile, India-Indus, China-Huang He (Yellow River)?
This religion spread rapidly across the Roman Empire using its vast road network.
What is Christianity?
Name two of the three West African empires that grew wealthy by controlling the gold and salt trade.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai? (Accept any two)
The Greeks contributed this form of government, while the Romans contributed this infrastructure that connected their empire.
What are democracy (Greece) and roads (Rome)?
This stable food supply gave people free time to develop new skills, technologies, and social structures.
What is agriculture (or farming)?
This sea and surrounding region was the center of the Greek and Roman empires.
What is the Mediterranean?
This religion spread into West Africa through trade routes and blended with local cultures, shaping governments and architecture.
What is Islam?
This was the source of wealth for Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is controlling the gold and salt trade?
Islam influenced West African empires by shaping these two aspects of society.
What are government and architecture?
Name three things that developed because people had free time from a stable food supply.
What are new skills, technologies, and social structures? (Accept: writing, government, inventions, etc.)
The region of Africa where the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai rose to power.
What is West Africa?
Name two ways that empires helped new religions spread.
What are: building roads for travel and creating trade routes for exchange? (Accept specific examples)
The Roman Empire's roads and West African trade routes both helped spread this type of change across civilizations.
What are new ideas (or religions, Christianity, Islam)?
Name two types of art or cultural expression mentioned in the text as developing in West African empires.
What are griots (storytelling), art, metalwork, woodwork, and architecture? (Accept any two)