Geography
What continent did humans originate from?
Africa
What historical event attempted to reclaim the Holy Land from the muslims?
Crusades
In which time period did humans develop language, stone tools, and the use of fire?
Paleolithic
What term refers to a system in which the men hold the power; women have little to no power or rights?
patriarchy
In Africa and Eurasia, where did all sedentary farming communities begin?
by rivers/in river valleys
What term refers to reasons that people have to immigrate due to war, hunger, climate crisis, etc?
Push factors
What do Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism have in common?
monotheistic religions
Because the Olmecs did not have hydrologic systems, what inventive farming technique did they use (to clear the land and fertilize the soil)
slash and bur agriculture
What was created in Mesopotamia, in addition to mathematics, to maintain record keeping and the creation of laws?
system of writing
What two products were heavily traded in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel?
gold and salt
What is used to illustrate the ages and gender in a place by year?
Population pyramid
What two religions developed in India?
Hinduism and Buddhism
What early Islamic state was the largest, and was based on conquest?
Umayyad Caliphate
Which empire allowed slaves to become citizens?
Roman
What are the two ways that pastoralists interacted with sedentary societies to get the resources that they needed?
raid and trade
What is the name of the region/peninsula in which Islam originated?
Arabia (Arabian Peninsula)
What religious practice did the Maya, Aztec, and Inca all do?
sacrifice
What region developed gunpowder, the magnetic compass, paper production?
China/Asia
the Mongols
What economic system did Western Europe use after the fall of the western Roman Empire?
feudalism (or manoralism)
Number the whiteboard 1 - 3.
What type of region is (1) the Midwest, (2) a pizza delivery area, (3) Florida counties map?
perceptual, functional (or nodal), formal
What religion did Ashoka convert to and spread while leader of the Mauryan Empire?
Buddhism
What Classical Period empire was the first to calculate pi and the length of the solar year?
Gupta
Number the whiteboard 1 and 2.
What political philosophy did the (1) Qin Dynasty, and the (2) Han Dynasty use?
Legalism, and Confucianism
Number the whiteboard 1 through
Which postclassical group in the Americas (1) did not trade within empire, (2) relied on slave labor, (3) grew food on floating gardens called chinampas, (4) had metal weapons and tools
1) Inca
2) all
3) Aztec
4) Inca