Cities, States and Empires, OH MY!
Farming or Foraging?
Trade-sies!
Beliefs and Practices
STRETCH Religious Vocab
100
A description of what makes a country an "empire".
What is the rule of a core area over the periphery through unequal laws and coercive military power?
100
Farming allowed surplus, which is...
What is an excess of anything, but especially food and other necessary goods?
100
How religion travelled on trade routes
What is merchants and missionaries would share religious practices or build temples/shrines in cities along the trade routes?
100
The religion that believes they are the chosen people of God, and need to follow the rules laid down in the Torah to remain distinct from the sins of the world.
What is Judaism?
100
This term, starting with an "M" means the belief in ONLY one God.
What is Monotheistic?
200
How trade helps states
What is controlling trade helps states gain power, resources, and wealth?
200
Farming, which allowed people to store up food, also allowed people to have more...and less...?
I will accept any correct 2 answers
More: Babies, Food Security/storage, Stability, Hierarchies, Diseases, Cities
Less: Health, Equality, Food Variety, Mobility
200
The first ocean to be crossed due to reliable monsoon winds, the Indian Ocean trade saw the invention of....
Take any two correct inventions.
What is the triangle sail (lateen) the dhao ship, and navigational aids like the compass or astrolabe?
200
What the Catholic church calls the Bread and Wine when it becomes the body and blood of God.
What is the Eucharist?
200
This term, starting with an "P" means belief in many Gods
What is Polytheistic?
300
Stop threats pre-emptively, gain access to resources, and spread your religion.
What are the reasons to conquer your neighbors and grow an empire?
300
Why farming started.
(Any of the theories)
What is Trap of Sedentism, Climate Change, More Control, or Abundance/Leisure?
300
How geography impacted trade.
Multiple answers acceptable
What is...long distances meant several middlemen, reliable monsoon winds allowed ocean travel, deserts and mountains required local guides, etc.
300
Moksha
What is the Hindu term for a personal devotion to your chosen god or goddess?
300
The Hindu belief that good actions in this life lead to a higher caste in your next life.
What is Kharma?
400
Characteristics of larger, more complex societies?
What are Job Specialization, Hierarchy and Class Division, Complex Institutions: Government and Religion, Writing, Trade Networks, Advances in Technology, Art, and Medicine, and Monumental Architecture?
400
The trap of sedentism
What is early human groups, by settling in one permanent location, became locked into agriculture?
400
The Silk Roads facilitated the exchange of goods AND ______and _____ and _______?
Need at least two
What are technology, religious ideas, and diseases?
400
The Four Noble Truths
What are: All life is suffering, suffering is caused by desire, desire can be overcome, overcome by following the 8-fold path?
400
The Confucian ideal of respecting your elders and ancestors
What is filial piety?
500
How governments control their country
What is military power, leadership and administration, control of wealth/taxes, maintaining infrastructure, and gaining religious leaders' support?
500
Explain how the following discovery challenged the "only men hunted" theory?
What is the discovery of female skeletons buried with hunting/butchery tools led to the reinspection of other digs assumed to be male due to the tools and now 40% of hunting skeletons are identified as female?
500
How Pax Mongolica accidentally caused the Black Death
What is the Mongolian Empire protecting trade routes encouraged more trade, and more movement of people and animals means disease spreads faster?
500
The Five Pillars of Islam
What are Shahadah (declaration of faith), Salah (daily prayer), Zakat (giving to the poor), Sawm (fasting during Ramadan), Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)?
500
What Popes would do if a European ruler didn't obey their religious authority.
What is excommunication?