- What are the 5 distinct geographic regions of Africa?
- How have conditions in the rainforest affected human activity in that region?
- How did Kushs relations with Egypt change over the years?
- How did Axum become a powerful city?
- What set the eastern coast apart from other African kingdoms?
- What two cultures blended to develop Swahili?
- How did geographic conditions limit contact between Africans and people from outside of the Middle East?
- Why was the gold-salt trade important to the development of West Africa?
- What were Mansa Musas most important achievements?
- What caused the downfall of Songhai?
- How did African religions embrace polytheism and monotheism?
- What purposes did the arts serve in African society?
- How did the lineage system ensure that society’s values would be upheld?
- What two geographic features dominate South America?
- How do most scientists believe that the first people reached the Americas?
- When and where did farming begin in the Americas?
- What can be inferred about Mississippian society from the remains at Cahokia?
- What characteristics did the Hopewell and Anasazi societies share?
- How was the origin of civilization in Peru similar to that of the river valley civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia?
- How were the Inca rulers able to maintain control over their vast empire?
- What were three major achievements of Maya civilization?
- Why did the Aztec sacrifice human beings to their gods?
- Both the Aztec and the Inca created formidable empires. What weaknesses, if any, did these empires have?
From a Georgia Virtual Learning assignment pdf