The document contains questions about various maps related to human migration and early civilizations. It asks about geographic barriers to migration, why certain groups migrated and the directions they went, what early civilizations had in common and why they thrived, important travel methods and trade routes for civilizations like the Romans and Chinese, and characteristics of different civilizations regarding emphasis on navy vs other defenses.

1. Map A
Name three different geographic barriers to human migration
Where is the home base of most of these people?
Why do you think these groups migrated and why did they go where they went?

2. Map B
Why did the Bantu
speaking population
migrate in a southern
and easterly
direction?

3. Maps C and D
(See next slide
also)
What do all of these
early civilizations
have in common?
Why did these
civilizations thrive?

4. Maps C and D
What do all of these early civilizations have in common?
Why did these civilizations thrive?

5. Map E
What method of travel was relied on most by the Romans in their empire?

6. Map F
Name and explain the importance of the land route pictured above.

7. Map G
Which city is most likely to be a major trade terminus for goods produced in the interior of
China? Why?

8. Map H
Which one of these
two civilizations
would emphasize
defense of its
region with a
powerful navy?
Explain.