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There is evidence for settlement of this ancient city as long as 14,000 years ago. It still exists today!
What is Jerico?
What is Iraq?
This civilization farmed many different things, including wheat, barley, oats, and rye. They also managed to cultivate grapes, apples, and pears. Their cheese is still popular today, but many people know them for their olives.
Who are the Greeks?
This civilization struggled with a warming climate as the desert dried out and water became scarce.
What is Ghana?
The first major agricultural civilizations and writing systems, along with the first written legal code and the wheel are the legacies of this civilization.
What is Uruk?
Also known as Uruk, this ancient settlement began around 3500 BCE, or 9,000 - 12, 000 years ago.
What is Mesopotamia?
You might like pasta with a good alfredo sauce, but the Ancient Greeks & Romans didn't eat those things, even if their civilization started on the northern tip of this peninsula.
What is the Italian peninsula?
What is rice?
Flooding, salty soil and angry neighbors made life difficult in this ancient city.
What is Uruk?
Scholars of philosophy, art and the invention of things like paper made this civilization's legacies stand out.
What is China?
There were humans here long before they settled down into civilizations, but the beginnings of democracy really started to happen about 1600-146 BCE.
What is Greco-Roman?
Located in what is now Mexico and Central America (Mesoamerica), these civilizations clashed for power until Cortez brought the Spanish in to settle.
Who are the Olmec, Aztec, Maya & Inca?
The ensete one of the main crops of the Aksum, but they also grew wheat, barley and millet. The ensete isn't a grain, though. It is this type of fruit.
What is a banana?
Volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters make life on this small island a bit rough, especially since there isn't a lot of fertile land.
What is Japan?
Art, architecture, philosophy, and engineering came out of these civilizations, but their biggest contributions are to government and the beginnings of democracy.
What are Greece and Rome?
Many civilizations existed in this area--the Olmec, Aztec, Maya, Inca. Humans have lived there for as many as 20,000 years. But agriculture didn't develop until 7000-3500 BCE.
What is Mesoamerica?
The Askum civilization, known for trade and herding animals, was located on the Northern horn of this continent.
What is Africa?
Ghana made their mark with domesticated camels, but they also domesticated these animals.
What are cattle, sheep and goats.
Mountains, poor soil, salt deposits and volcanic activity caused problems for these two civilizations.
What are Greeks and Romans?
Known for their calendars, mathematics and writing systems, this civilization's innovations live on today.
What is the Maya?
Often called the "Cradle of Civilization", is the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape, from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and northern Egypt.
"What is the "fertile crescent"?
The people of Ghana domesticated camels and, so doing, revolutionized their ability to trade with other peoples. Their civilization was located in this dry area.
Where is West Africa?
Much of Mesoamerica's food can be found here in Arizona, including peppers, tomatoes, and beans. They were excellent at growing corn, too, but it was called this instead.
What is maize?
Small rivers, poor soil, volcanic rock and small rivers gave these Mesoamerican civilizations some trouble.
What are the Maya, Aztec and Inca?
Major contributions to one of my favorite subjects, astronomy, along with irrigation systems, poetry, mathematics, architecture and art all came from this group.
Who are the Aztec?