Period 1
Humanlike primates that appeared 3 to 4 million years ago in southern and eastern Africa
What are Hominids?
Caravan routes and sea lanes that facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and disease.
What are the Silk Roads?
Famous Italian traveler who visited the court of Kublai Khan
Who is Marco Polo?
Missionary activities by Franciscans, Dominicans, and Jesuits facilitated the spread of this religion in the New World.
What is Christianity?
Economic and military program intended to help nations resist Soviet aggression and prevent the spread of communism that was created by President Harry S. Truman.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Language family derived from that of ancient tongues used by the Aryans. Examples include German, English, and Romanian.
What are Indo-European languages?
Power struggles, epidemics, size, and outside attacks all contributed to the fall of this empire.
What is the Roman Empire?
United Central Asia and now contributes to the DNA of about 1 in 200 men
Who is Genghis Khan?
Soldiers in the Ottoman Empire that trained to protect and serve the sultan
What are Janissaries?
Economic aid package designed to strengthen democracy and lessen the appeal of communism; also known as the European Recovery Program.
What is the Marshall Plan?
What is the Indus River Valley civilization?
He was the self-proclaimed “first emperor” of China.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
Chinese invention from the Tang Dynasty that was diffused to Europe by 1258
What is gunpowder?
European demand for Chinese goods such as silk and tea were causes for this 1839-1842 conflict
What is the Opium War?
A defensive military alliance of communist nations designed to counter the collective defense of the democratic nations of NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Pastoral nomads who spoke Indo-European languages and migrated to India to establish an elaborate caste system.
Who are the Aryans?
Chandra Gupta laid the foundations for this empire by making alliances with powerful families in the Ganges.
What is the Gupta empire?
The social order of medieval Europe; involves a hierarchy of lords and vassals.
What is Feudalism?
The Roman Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation that sought to stop the spread of Protestant ideas and win back converts.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
Cold War peace conference held in 1954
What is the Geneva Conference?
Peoples who lives between the eastern Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon; earned a reputation as seafaring traders in the first millennium B.C.E.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Famous rulers of this empire include Cyrus, who founded it, and Darius, who expanded it and moved the capital to Persepolis.
What is the Achaemenid empire?
Chinese dynasty created by Emperor Hongwu that followed the Yuan Dynasty; power was consolidated through the use of eunuchs and mandarins.
What is the Ming dynasty?
Oceangoing ships that were invented by the Portuguese in the 15th century and were smaller than traditional European ships
What are Caravels?
Policy adopted by Soviet Union and United States that sought to reduce tensions between them and control of developing countries
What is Détente?