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What modern day country was Mesopotamia located in?

The path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes

What is the longest river in the world?

Growing more food than they needed to feed themselves.

The first written language created in Mesopotamia

Who was the world famous remains of an almost intact 3 million year old Australopithecus?

Not the longest river in the world, but the largest?

Muslims make a pilgrimage to

Ancient Symbol writing of the Egyptians is known as?

Who are the 'big three' Native American groups of Latin America?

One country takes over another country or another part of the world is called?

What is the Middle East's economy based on?

What item was the heart weighed against by Anubis?

Who was the first great king of Babylon who created the first written set of laws?

A long period of time with little to no precipitation

Which country has the biggest population in Africa?

Who is a person who has to escape their homeland for safety?

The belief in one God

What was the capital city of the Aztecs?

Who led the Israelite's out of Egypt?

Standing on two legs and walking is called

What religion did the Spanish conquistadors force upon the Native Americans

What is the central religious book of Islam?

A severe lack of food

A person of mixed Native American and European heritage is known as Mestizo

Hunting animals illegally to sell their remains is called?

Who was the most feared and warlike people of ancient Mesopotamia?

Laws that forced the separation of black and white people within South Africa was called

What continent did the first hominids originate from?

The best way of representing the world is on a...

What line divides the earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

What is the central religious book of Christianity?

What is the name of the process for preserving bodies after death?

Showing the round Earth on a flat surface is not possible without some distortion

Who was at the top of the social pyramid in Ancient Egypt?

What is the most important organ from the human body after a person died in Ancient Egypt?

One half of the earth is referred to as a

When one ruler has all the power in a country it is a?

The systematic extermination of a specific group of people is known as

The practice of supplying land with water

Which Native American Group was found in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico?

Who is the main central figure of Christianity?

A system where people are owned by individuals as a form of property was called

What religion has the most followers in the world

When the population of one specific type of animal drastically falls very low, the animal is considered to be a

The process of grassland turning to desert is called

Controlling and taming wild animals is called domestication

The action of clearing a wide area of trees is called

Who was known as the Father of the Israelites?

Who was the Spanish Conqueror that defeated the Aztecs?

What is the name of the movement in Arab countries demanding more freedoms?

Someone who makes maps is a cartographer.

A person trained to read and write

What did many Native American groups do as a way to keep to keep the gods satisfied?

The belief in many gods

An economic system meaning that there are no upper, middle, or lower classes: Everyone is the same

What line divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere?

The name of the super continent from the Continental Drift Theory is

Who is the central figure of Islam

When two groups in the same country are fighting