Use your graph reading and analysis skills and prior knowledge of history to help you answer the questions below. Please answer the questions underneath the list of my questions and/or omit the
questions from the assignment that you submit.
1. What do the colors represent? (Be sure to explain both colored columns AND colored shapes)
2. What do the words at the top of the graphic illustrate? (Be sure to explain title: Geohistogram,
West/East, and headings over the columns)
3. What do the numbers on the left side show?
4. What do the words inside the colored shapes indicate?
5. How do you interpret the dashed lines leading up to the colored shapes?
6. What is the Geohistogram not showing before 8000 B. C.?
7. Why do some colored shapes spread over more than one column? Why do others not spread?
8. When did the first civilization begin according to this diagram? Does this coincide with what you
studied last year? Explain.
9. Which civilizations controlled people or areas in more than one continent? Name at least 8 of
those that did.
Which is the only civilization to have controlled people or areas on all 6 regions...and all 6
continents (not shown... do you know them?)
When did this rise to power and influence begin? When did it begin to diminish?
10. Why do you think this civilization was able to accomplish this?
11. Where had civilizations existed before the rise of this civilization? Why do you think these
civilizations did not spread their influence and control to all 6 regions?
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