What is a Civilization?
Cities & Monuments
Communication
Government & Jobs
Rise & Fall of Civilizations
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100: What is a civilization?
Civilization describes a complex way of life with cities, governments, and different jobs.
100
100: Places where many people live and trade with rural areas are called this (2 answers).
Answer: What are cities or urban areas?
100
100: Ways to share ideas and information, such as language, writing, or symbols, are called this.
Answer: What is communication?
100
100: Organized leadership and systems like roads, water systems, and public buildings are called this.
Answer: What is government and infrastructure?
100
100: Civilizations grow through these three things.
Answer: What are trade, conflict, and exploration?
200
200: Civilizations first began between these years.
Answer: What is 4000–3000 B.C.E.?
200
200: This volcanic rock helped Teotihuacan grow because it was used for tools and trade.
Answer: What is obsidian?
200
200: The first writing, called cuneiform, was made by this civilization.
Answer: Who were the Sumerians?
200
200: Name three things governments do in a civilization.
Answer: What are make laws, collect taxes, organize defense?
200
200: The Khmer civilization traded along this route and shared Buddhism and Hinduism.
Answer: What is the Silk Road?
300
300: Where were the first 5 civilizations’ locations?
Answer: What are Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, and Mexico?
300
300: Civilizations build these big buildings or statues to show power and remember history.
Answer: What are monuments?
Ziggurat
300
300: The Inca communicated number data using this method of knotted strings instead of writing.
Answer: What is khipu?
300
300: The Romans improved travel and water systems with these two constructions.
Answer: What are roads and aqueducts?
300
300: This famous temple in Cambodia was built by the Khmer and is known worldwide.
Answer: What is Angkor Wat?
400
400: Farming helped civilizations grow by providing this.
Answer: What is more food and stability?
400
400: Great Zimbabwe had these stone constructions that are still on the country’s flag and money.
Answer: What are the Zimbabwe Birds?
400
400: Writing is important because it allows civilizations to record laws, trade, religious stories, and do this across generations.
Answer: What is pass knowledge from generation to generation?
400
400: People having specialized work to make the civilization stronger is called this.
Answer: What is division of labor?
400
400: Civilizations can fall due to internal problems, attacks from outside, or this kind of natural problem.
Answer: What is environmental collapse?
500
500: A civilization grows stronger when people have different jobs, which is called this.
Answer: What is division of labor?
500
500: Art in a civilization communicates these three things about the society.
Answer: What are values, religion, and creativity?
500
500: Name two types of communication used by early civilizations.
Answer: What are language, writing, numbers, signs, or symbols?
500
500: Name some jobs in Timbuktu that show a civilization’s division of labor.
Answer: What are traders, teachers, doctors, and artists?
500
500: Name one civilization that fell because of each reason: internal change, external pressure, and environmental collapse.
Answer: What are the Maya, the Aztec, and the Indus Valley civilizations?