Early Civilizations
This geographic feature led to early civilizations
What are rivers?
This series of trade routes linked Europe and Asia
What is the Silk Road?
This is the largest continent
What is Asia?
This Middle Ages soldier pledged allegiance to a king or lord
What is a knight?
This is Buffalo's professional lacrosse team
Who are the Bandits?
This Roman building hosted gladiator fights and re-creations of naval battles
What is the Colosseum?
This major construction project protected against invasion from the north
What is the Great Wall?
This continent includes France, England, and Italy
What is Europe?
This empire in Eastern Europe lasted hundreds of years after the fall of Rome
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This restaurant claims to have invented the chicken wing in 1964.
What is the Anchor Bar?
This innovation helped civilizations control rivers for farming
What is irrigation?
(Also acceptable: terrace farming)
This Qin Dynasty emperor unified China but used harsh tactics
Who is Shi Huangdi?
This sea was at the center of the Roman Empire
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
In this economic system, people lived on self-sufficient manors
What is manorialism?
General Mills has produced this cereal in Buffalo since 1941.
What are Cheerios?
The time period when humans moved from hunting and gathering to farming.
What is the Neolithic Age?
This Chinese dynasty standardized roads and created a civil service system
What is the Han Dynasty?
This is the term for a series of islands
What is archipelago?
This set of laws was standardized by Justinian during the Byzantine Empire
What is the Justinian Code?
This president was inaugurated in Buffalo.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
The earliest known writing system
What is cuneiform?
This philosophy about strict laws guided the Qin Dynasty's rule
What is legalism?
At 4132 miles, this is the longest river in the world.
Nile River
The medieval social system where lords promised land in exchange for allegiance from vassals and knights
What is feudalism?
This World's Fair was held in Buffalo in 1901.
What is the Pan American Exposition?