UNIT 1
How big was the Roman Empire's population?
50 million people.
What is the longest river in West Africa?
The Niger River.
What influenced classical art?
Influenced by the styles and techniques of ancient Greece and Rome.
Who were the Mayan?
The people of an important Mesoamerican civilization that lasted from about 2000 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E.
What was the Age of Exploration?
A period of European exploration and discovery that lasted from about 1418 to 1620.
What was the name of the job who kept records and wrote down rules?
Scribes
What is "Nok"?
A people living in West Africa in the 500s B.C.E. who mastered ironworking.
What's the was the Renaissance?
A great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas and art, that began in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe.
What was the slash-and-burn agricultural technique? And what was it used for?
It was a farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops.
What does inflation mean?
A rise in prices, often due an increase in the supply of money.
What is the definition of empire?
A large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government.
What is the large hot desert in North Africa that covers about 3.5 million square miles?
The Sahara Desert.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
A famous Renaissance artist, scientist, and inventor.
What was the capital city of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlán
Who was Henry the Navigator?
Henry the Navigator was a Portuguese prince who sponsored early maritime exploration, laying the foundations for the Age of Discovery.
Who was Rome's first emperor?
Caesar Augustus
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
The most basic acts of worship for Muslims: declaration of faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and making a pilgrimage to Mecca.
What was Martin Luther known for doing?
For braking away from the Catholic Church to start his own religion, Lutheranism. His posting of the Ninety-Five Theses started the Reformation.
What was a quipu?
A quipu was a system of knotted cords used primarily by the Inca Empire to store and communicate information without a written alphabetic system.
What was the science and art of making maps?
Cartography.
What did wealthy families often have in their homes?
Mosaics.
What does "jihad" mean?
Muslims’ struggle with challenges within themselves and the world as they strive to please God.
What was the Counter-Reformation?
A movement of the Catholic Church, in reaction to the Reformation, in which Catholic leaders worked to correct abuses, to clarify and defend Catholic teachings, to condemn what they saw as Protestant errors, and to win back members.
What was the name of an Incan clan/the basic unit of Incan society?
An ayllu.
Who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias.