The Middle Ages & Civilizations Around the World
Vocabulary
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Cause & Effect
Trivia
100
This empire continued in the eastern part of the old Roman Empire long after Rome fell.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
100
The pilgrimage or religious journey Muslims make.
What is the Hajj?
100
Muslims practiced fasting during the holy month of ______.
What is Ramadan?
100
These three forces helped Islam spread rapidly across a wide area.
What are trade, conquest, and religious teaching?
100
Siddhartha Gautama founded this religion, which focuses on enlightenment and meditation.
What is Buddhism?
200
This religion began in the Arabian Peninsula in the early 600s CE and spread through trade, conquest, and religious teaching.
What is Islam?
200
An organization of people with common interests or goals.
What is a guild?
200
The capital of the Byzantine Empire was ______.
What is Constantinople?
200
As Islam spread, cities along trade routes attracted these people and resources, helping them become centers of learning and culture.
What are merchants, scholars, and goods?
200
This native Japanese belief system remained important as Japan developed a society shaped by powerful families and warriors.
What is Shinto?
300
This empire stretched across Eurasia and became one of the largest contiguous land empires in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
300
A tenant who received protection from a lord in exchange for loyalty and military service.
What is a vassal?
300
Civilizations in the Americas built ______ into hillsides to create land for agriculture.
What are terraces?
300
The Mongols brought a huge stretch of Eurasia under one rule, producing this important effect on travel.
What is making travel between distant regions easier and safer?
300
This famous monument later became a major symbol of Indian history and architecture.
What is the Taj Mahal?
400
In medieval Europe, society centered around landholding, nobles, the Church, and these pieces of land granted within the feudal system.
What are fiefs?
400
This social system tied landholding, loyalty, military service, and protection together in medieval society.
What is feudalism?
400
Large government projects in China sometimes relied on ______ workers who were required to provide labor.
What are conscripted workers?
400
European Christians launched the Crusades into Muslim-controlled lands, especially around this important city.
What is Jerusalem?
400
This religion follows the Five Pillars, uses the Qur’an as its sacred text, and worships in mosques.
What is Islam?
500
Islamic expansion and Mongol conquest both helped distant regions become more connected, leading to more movement of these three things.
What are people, goods, and ideas?
500
A formal split into opposing groups or parties.
What is a schism?
500
A person who openly rejected Church authority could sometimes be ______ from the Church.
What is excommunicated?
500
Two major effects of the Crusades were increased violence between Christians and Muslims and an increase in this form of persecution in parts of Europe.
What is antisemitic persecution?
500
This Chinese philosophy taught that peace and order in society begin with peace and order in individual people, and its ideas later influenced government training.
What is Confucianism?