Development of Civilizations
This era was known for hunting and gathering and lasted until around 10,000 BC.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This Greek city-state became known for developing one of the world’s first democracies under Pericles.
What is Athens?
This white crystalline substance was traded for gold in West Africa because it was essential for preserving meat.
What is salt?
This religion emerged in the 7th century in Saudi Arabia and spread through Southwest Asia.
What is Islam?
This Italian Jesuit began the first Catholic mission in China in 1583.
Who is Matteo Ricci?
The major change that marked the beginning of the Neolithic Era was the development of this.
What is agriculture?
This Roman legal code helped protect plebeians and influenced later Western legal systems.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This highly prized fabric was a closely guarded secret in China for thousands of years until 300 CE.
What is silk?
This Chinese invention used a magnetized needle to help sailors determine direction at sea.
What is the compass?
This massive imperial palace complex was constructed in Beijing as the home for all later emperors.
What is the Forbidden City?
Early civilizations often developed near these geographic features because they provided fertile soil and freshwater.
What are river valleys?
This Chinese dynasty is remembered for inventions such as paper, the seismograph, and civil service examinations.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This empire captured Constantinople in 1453, renaming it Istanbul and controlling the crossroads of trade.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This "Divine Right" system claims a king's authority comes directly from God, not the people.
What is absolutism?
This legal code, based on the Quran, provided a consistent way to resolve disputes and protected trade.
What is sharia law?
During the Neolithic Revolution, humans began domesticating these two categories of living things.
What are plants and animals?
Explain one geographic feature that helped the Roman Empire grow.
What is the Mediterranean Sea allowed trade and expansion, the Alps provided protection, or rivers like the Tiber supported transportation and farming?
These large roadside inns were built to accommodate camel caravans and merchants along overland trade routes.
What are caravanserai?
DAILY DOUBLE
John Locke’s theory, where people give up some rights to a ruler in exchange for protection.
What is the social contract?
This rigorous system was the primary way for any citizen, even a farmer's son, to join the government.
Explain one major social effect of the Neolithic Revolution.
What is the development of social classes, permanent settlements, population growth, or job specialization?
Identify two major factors that contributed to the fall of classical empires such as Rome, the Han Dynasty, or the Maya.
What are corruption, weak leadership, invasions, economic decline, warfare, environmental problems like drought or deforestation, high taxes, political instability, or military weakness?
Unlike the Atlantic trade, the Indian Ocean slave trade often focused on these three types of labor.
What is domestic, military, and household work
This Japanese official held the actual military power, while the Emperor served as a figurehead.
Who is the Shogun?
Neo-Confucianism incorporated ideas from this other belief system alongside traditional Confucianism.
What is Taoism?