Belief Systems
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100
This word means the belief in many gods.
Polytheism (4)
100
The 12 Tables, roads, and a republic government are all features of this civilization.
ancient Rome (20)
100
This was the series of wars between Christians and Muslims. The goal for each side was to capture the Holy Land.
Crusades (21)
100
This is the definition of indulgence (what the Catholic Church was selling prior to the Protestant Reformation).
tickets to Heaven (paying for your salvation) (11)
100
Named after China's most popular export, this trading route(s) ran from China to Europe. During their empire, the Mongols made it safer. Many goods and cultures were exchanged here.
Silk Road (14)
200
This belief system believes in the 5 Pillars and its holy book is the Qur'an.
Islam (8)
200
These 2 countries are examples of peninsulas.
India & Italy (also: Balkan peninsula) (23)
200
This revolution was the start of growing crops and domesticating animals.
Neolithic Revolution (1)
200
This was the system of global trade that occurred after Columbus "discovered" the Americas. Food, ideas, and diseases traveled across the Atlantic Ocean.
Columbian exchange (24)
200
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," is an excerpt from this set of laws, the first ever to be posted in public.
Hammurabi's Code (17)
300
List the 3 monotheistic religions.
Christianity, Judaism, Islam (25)
300
This civilization is geographically isolated by mountain, ocean, jungle, and desert. As a result, they became ethnocentric and called themselves the "Middle Kingdom."
China (10)
300
This man led the Protestant Reformation by writing 95 Theses about the Catholic Church's failures. He was excommunicated by the church for his writings.
Martin Luther (NOT Martin Luther King) (19)
300
This term means "re-birth". It was a period of time in Europe after the Dark Ages when art and thinking flourished.
Renaissance (12)
300
This is how ancient Greece was affected by its geography.
mountains - separate city-states (Athens, Sparta) archipelago - close to water (travel & trade) (5)
400
These 2 religions believe in karma & reincarnation. Both started in India & have become very popular in Asia.
Hinduism & Buddhism (15)
400
In the African Trading Kingdom of Mali, Mansa Musa is most known for spreading this belief system throughout Northwestern Africa.
Islam (he went to Mecca) (16)
400
Christianity was not very popular until this leader pronounced it the official religion of the Byzantine Empire.
Constantine (3)
400
This method was used by the Incas to increase the amount of farmable land on the mountain side.
terrace farming (22)
400
African trading kingdoms became rich by trading these 2 things.
gold & salt (7)
500
This is the term for the Confucian principle of respecting your parents/elders.
filial piety (2)
500
This social class system, created by European conquistadors, was introduced in Latin America as a way to prove that Europeans are better than Native Americans and Africans. (Peninsulares, creoles, mestizos/mulattos, Natives & Africans.)
encomienda system (18)
500
This technological invention increased literacy, the spread of ideas, and the availability of books.
Gutenberg's printing press (9)
500
This is the idea Copernicus proposed and Galileo proved with his telescope. It means the sun is in the center of the universe, NOT the Earth (like the Church had thought).
heliocentrism (13)
500
Feudalism is an exchange of ____________________ for _____________________.
land; protection/services (6)
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