Chapter 6 - Commonalities and Variations

Climate change

________ also bred a slew of disease- carrying insects and parasites, which have wreaked havoc on many parts of the continent for years.

Axum

________ was introduced to Christianity in the fourth century c.e.

Kingdom of Mero

The ________ was ruled by an all- powerful and sacred king, a position that has been held by women on at least 10 occasions, either alone or in tandem with a male monarch.

African

Even though geography fostered some interaction between ________ and Eurasian peoples, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans separated Western Hemisphere cultures and societies from their Afro- Eurasian counterparts.

Eurasia

________ accounted for more than 85 % of the world's population at the time, with Africa accounting for 10 %, America for 5 %, and Oceania accounting for less than 1 %.

King Ezana

________, the country's ruler at the time, converted to Christianity around the same time as Constantine did in the Roman Empire.

Maya

Writing was limited to the Mesoamerican region in the Americas, where it was most developed among the ________, whereas it was limited to the northern and northeastern regions of Africa.

Egypt

Nubians traded and battled with ________ for ages, and at one point, the Nubian Kingdom of Kush invaded ________ and controlled it for a century.

Eurasia

In the Americas, metallurgy was also considerably less developed than in ________ and Africa, where iron tools and weapons played such a significant part in economic and military life.

Kingdom of Mero

In terms of politics, the ________ was ruled by an all- powerful and holy king, a position held by women on at least 10 occasions, either alone or in tandem with a male monarch.

Egypt

The territories of Nubian civilization, nearly as old as ________ itself, are located in the Nile Valley south of Egypt.