Unit 0
One word synonym for hunting & gathering
What is "Foraging"?
The earliest written set of laws
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This is a religious feature shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
What is "monotheism"? They also worship the exact same god (w/different names)
This two-word "event" began when the Eastern & Western Hemispheres started having regular contact.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the major center in Baghdad for learning & preserving ancient texts from many civilizations
What is the House of Wisdom?
The process of bringing plants and animals under our control for human benefit
What is domestication?
Yuval Noah Harari says humans have been able to cooperate in huge groups because of this.
What is "shared myths" or "imagined orders"?
The Han Dynasty's efforts to trade with other peoples in Central Asia led to the establishment of this route.
What is the Silk Road?
This disease killed tens of millions of people & caused major upheavals in Europe
What is the "Black Death" or "bubonic plague"?
Martin Luther's famous two-word Latin phrase focusing on the Bible as the ultimate source of authority.
What is "sola scriptura"?
The earliest river valley where there is evidence of farming.
What is the Tigris-Euphrates River valley (or Mesopotamia)?
Besides the earliest place, the two other river valleys in Asia where farming got started very early.
What are the Huang (Yellow) River and the Indus River?
The 200-year period without serious wars and great prosperity throughout the Mediterranean region.
What is the Pax Romana?
This person greatly assisted the Spanish in their conquest of the Aztecs, which some say was a betrayal of her own people
Who is La Malinche (or Malintzin)?
This is the Muslim political domain that created the Golden Age of Islam (two-word phrase).
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
One acre of farmland can feed 10 to _____ times more people than an acre of wild land.
What is 100?
ONE of the two earliest & major cities in the Indus River Valley
What is Mohenjo-Daro OR Harappa?
"The nature of man is evil; his goodness is acquired" comes from which ancient philosophy?
What is Legalism?
They created the largest land empire in world history (which did not last long)
Renaissance Humanists were especially interested in texts from this (two-word) era of the ancient past.
What is "Greco-Roman" or "Greek & Roman"?
This circular monumental structure was built over 9000 years ago by hunter-gatherers.
What is Gobekli Tepe?
One-word adjective describing a concept that does not exist in the real world nor in the mind of a single person.
What is "intersubjective"?
The fundamental tension that every empire must deal with (______ v. ______)
What is "center v. periphery"?
More than any other item, this profitable labor-intensive crop grown in the Caribbean increased the Transatlantic Slave Trade
What is sugar?
The older theory of the sun, moon, earth & planets rejected by scientists in the Scientific Revolution.
What is the "geocentric" or "ptolemaic" theory?