Value of Water + Basic Sciences
Humans can only survive this long without the precious resource known as water.
What is 3-5 days?
This river was- and still is- Egypt's primary water source.
What is the Nile?
The word Mesopotamia is derived from a Greek term meaning, between two rivers, because it is surrounded by these two bodies of water.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The opposite of a Nomadic lifestyle, this way of living involved settlements and a permanent home.
What is a sedentary lifestyle?
Led by this famous ruler, the Mongols were able to conquer and control much of Eurasia.
Who is Genghis Khan?
When frozen, water does this- a special characteristic that makes it different from all other liquids.
What is expands?
Mesoamerica is a region in this continent.
What is South America?
While on their Nomadic journeys through the desert, in an effort to conserve water, the Bedouins rode on this animal.
What are camels?
The expansion of this kind of fertile land was essential for agriculture to prosper.
What is arable land?
Although the Mongols had a nomadic and pastoralist lifestyle, they mainly resided in this grassland of Central Asia.
What is the Steppe?
The water molecule, H2O, is made up of these three atoms.
What are 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen atoms?
This was the second place where agriculture was implemented and developed.
What is China?
This group of Nomadic people native to North Africa, the Middle East, and Arabia, moved constantly in search of greener pastures, carrying their lightweight, folding homes with them.
Who are the Bedouins?
This region was the first place to create artificial arable land.
What is Mesopotamia?
Whilst conquering Eurasia on the Silk Road, the Mongols spread this disease, leading to a famous "pandemic."
What was the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
The water cycle, or the system in which water endlessly travels through the world, goes through these 3 stages.
What are condensation, precipitation, and evaporation?
The lack of this large, hooved mammal in Mesoamerica forced humans to carry out all of the manual labor.
This area of Mesopotamia was where the choice to increase cultivation was first made (10-12,000 years ago.)
What is the fertile crescent?
Mesopotamia was the first society to have this kind of profit-hungry agriculture.
What is competitive agriculture?
The Maasai people trailblazed this new form of pastoralism, that prioritized the migration of animals and herds.
What is transhumance pastoralism?
This system defines the fact that we value and pay so much more for a carbon-based diamond, than water, which is free in so many restaurants, but essential and completely necessary for life.
What is the paradox of value?
These were the earliest forms of Chinese agriculture.
Mesopotamia is known for it's clever canals and levees that would transport river water to farmland. Although it seemed like a genius invention at first, the region's high evaporation rate left this mineral looming over the fields and destroying land.
What is salt?
The idea of a sedentary lifestyle started here 10,000 years ago.
Where is Turkey?
The Steppe, or the place in which the Mongols mainly resided in, stretched from here to present-day China.
What is Hungary?