World History 1
This location contained most early civilizations.
What is River Valley civilizations?
What type of government did ancient Rome have?
Republic
This group was the PRIMARY trade link between India, China, Europe, and Africa from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries CE.
Who were the Muslim merchants?
This is a wedge-shaped writing developed in Sumer.
What is Cuneiform?
This is the official name of a Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
The Relocation of Muhammad from Medina to Mecca
What is the Hijra?
The area found between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the area known as "Mesopotamia"
This law code written in cuneiform was the first of its kind that had unified law code for the ancient Babylonian civilization.
What is the law code of Hammurabi?
This person was the Founder of Christianity.
Who is Jesus Christ/ Jesus of Nazareth?
This civilization which flourished from about 1250 to 1521 in Northern Mexico.
Who were the Aztecs?
A system used to transport clean water throughout a city and from its source.
What are the Aqueducts?
This ancient civilization developed canals and dams, cuneiform, and invented the wheel.
Who were the Summerians?
Event was the result of politicians and religious leaders’ desire to control the Holy Land in the 11th century?
What are the Crusades
This institution had the most power during the Middle Ages.
What is the Catholic Church?
This is a code of honor practiced by knights.
What is Chivalry?
A group of people who brought reform to Benedictine Rule.
Who are the Cistercians?
This religion requires: Give charity to the needy; Make a pilgrimage; Fasting during the holy month; Pray five times each day are four of the most important requirements.
What is Islam
Excommunication
What was the most powerful tool the church had in maintaining its power?
This Holy Roman Emperor called for Pope Gregory VII to step down because he banned lay investiture.
Who is Henry IV
This system was a political system of local government based on the granting of land in return for military assistance.
What is Feudal system?
The "investiture struggle" that took place between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV symbolized the struggle between the church and state over who had the power.
What is to appoint church positions?
This leader's wife Theodora was a poor actress that became empress of the Byzantine Empire that is mostly responsible for making the laws and policy of the Empire before her death
Who is Justinian?
This was the transfer of people, animals, plants, technology, language, disease between the old world and new world
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The split into Sunni and Shia divisions of Islam can be traced to this event.
What is a dispute over the question of Muhammad's successor?
In its early years, Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire because its teaching appealed especially to this group.
Who are Gentiles?