Brainy info
Major World Religions
Classical Empires
Post-Classical Trade
1450-1750
100

This portion of the brain is associated with fear.

What is the amygdala

100
This religion developed out of Hebrew Monotheism
What is Judaism?
100
Three of the four empires that developed in the Mediterranean region
What are Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians and Hellenistic empires?
100
This trade route expanded after explorers conquered the monsoon winds
What is Indian Ocean Basin?
100
The Europeans established this trade system that resembles a triangle
What is the Atlantic System?
200

This bundle of nerve fibers connects both hemispheres of the brain and allow them to communicate and share information.

What is the corpus callosum?

200
These are the two major world religions that started in India
What is Buddhism and Hinduism?
200
This is the administrative technique used by the empires that created a government run by one person or entity
What is centralized government?
200
Porcelain and textiles were traded from this area of the world
What is Asia?
200
This country led the charge in European exploration
What is Portugal?
300
Give two effects of the Neolithic Revolution
What are various answers?
300
This is more like a philosophy followed by the Chinese
What is Confucianism?
300
Empires often built defensive walls and fortifications to do this
What is project military power?
300
Travelers along this trade route relied heavily upon pack animals
What is Trans-Saharan?
300
This was the prevailing economic philosophy of European maritime empires
What is mercantilism?
400
Pastorialists developed weapons that transformed this
What is agrarian warfare?
400
This religion initially encountered much resistance until it was accepted by the Roman government
What is Christianity?
400
Jus Gentium is an example of using this technique to administer the empires
What is elaborate legal systems?
400
Chinese innovations like papermaking were usually spread along the Silk Roads with the help of these people
What are the Mongols?
400
This theory, which said that Kings were chosen by God, led to Absolutism in Europe
What is divine right?
500
This caused the Neolithic Revolution
What is the warming climate at the end of the last ice age?
500
One of three non-codified religious traditions outside the major civilizations
What is ancestor veneration, shamanism, animism?
500
Economic success in the empires came from doing these two things
What is maintaining roads and issuing currencies?
500
This Middle Eastern city grew primarily because of its location along a prominent trade route
What is Baghdad?
500
The Taj Mahal is an example of a ruler using art to do what
What is legitimize his power?
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