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Location: Mexico
Accomplishments: They were able to grow lots of food in small areas because they used the corn stalks to hold up the beans and used the squash leaves to kill off weeds. -
Location: India
Accomplishments: They were able to do complex surgeys like removing limbs and tumors. -
Locatio: the Mediterranean Area
Accomplishments: They became very wealthy fast because they were at a crossroad for trading. Because of this they were the richest and most elegant city in the area for almost 700 years. -
Location: Africa
Accomplishments: They gained their wealth and power by controlling the god trade. Also power was inherited matrilineally (the son's for the king's sister). -
Location: China
Accomplishments: They developed things like gunpowder and rockets. They also developed paper and printing. -
Location: Middle East
Accomplishments: Developed Arabic numerals, the numbering system we use today. -
Location: Japan
Accomplishments: They developed different forms of literacy like Tankas. They also took the Chinese characters and simplified them, making the Japanese language. -
Location: Western and Central England
Accomplishments: They gained lots of power fast through social, political, and economical power. -
Location: Western South America
Accomplishments: They didn't have a written language but instead they use the quitpus which is ropes with knots in it to pass messages. -
Location: Africa
Accomplishments: The Hajj of Mansa Musa brought attention from Europe to Mali. -
Location: Northern Mexico
Accomplishments: They were able to build their capital in the middle of a lake by using logs and other resources. -
Location: Africa
Accomplishments: A Songhai leader named Sunni Ali, built an army to defeat and take power from Mali in 1406.