Unit 1: World Religions
Unit 2A: Empires of the World
Unit 2B: European Exploration
Unit 3: Birth of Modern Europe
Unit 4: Enlightenment/Absolutism
100
What is Monotheism
Belief in one God
100
What Empire(s) dominated the Gold and Salt Trade in Africa(name one)
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
100
What was the main motivations for European Exploration
Gold, God, Glory
100
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Italy
100
The Enlightenment was primarily a movement that changed how people thought about what?
Government
200
Name the two Polytheistic religions we studied in class
Hindusim/Buddhism
200
What was the main religion of the Ottoman Empire?
Islam
200
What term was used to describe the spread of disease, crops, and goods between the Old and New Worlds during European Exploration?
Columbian Exchange
200
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
200
What is a similarity between Peter the Great and Louis XIV?
Both weakened the power of the nobility
300
What is the Torah?
The sacred writings of the Jews
300
Which modern-day country includes the area once ruled by the Mughals?
3
300
What country was the first to sail around Africa?
Portugal
300
What religious leader is credited with beginning the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
300
What are the three characteristic of a Absolute Monarch?
Use their army to expand their border, make the laws for their country, limit the power of the nobility
400
What is the Holy City for the three monotheistic religions?
Jerusalem
400
What was the name for the ancient soldiers in Japan?
Samuraii
400
What country was Columbus from?
Italy
400
What invention is credited for helping spread the Protestant Reformation?
Printing Press
400
What did the Enlightenment inspire?
Revolutions like the French and American Revolutions?
500
Who is the founding prophet for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
Abraham
500
Who had the ultimate power in Japan?
Shogun
500
What animal was introduced to the Native Americans that dramatically changed their culture?
The Horse
500
Which English King split from the Pope to divorce his wife?
Henry VIII
500
Which Enlightenment figure fought for women's rights?
Mary Wollstonecraft