Vocab 1
This is the "spread of culture"
what is cultural diffusion
He is the leader of the Catholic Church
Who is the Pope?
A name to describe the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa as a group.
What was the Old World?
This ocean separates Europe from N. America
What is the Atlantic?
This is a common way that culture is spread. Think the Crusades.
What is war?
This is the name for the Christian Church led from Rome
What is Catholic Church?
This was a 700 years war between Catholics and Muslims in Spain and Portugal.
What was the Reconquista?
The name of this sea means "middle of the earth."
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Eventually European kingdoms would extend out to the "New World," which consisted of North America, South America, and this continent between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
What is Oceania?
This is a common way that culture is spread. Think the Silk Road.
What is trade?
This is the Arabic term for empire or kingdoms led by Islam.
What is Caliphate?
This is what the quick series of wars that made Islam a powerful religion in North Africa and the Middle East is called.
What were the Muslim Conquests?
This city is the heart of the Catholic Church.
Where is Rome?
The Holy Roman Empire was a number of kingdoms within both Italy and this modern day country.
Where is Germany?
The Romans were able to spread their culture due to their extensive building of these.
What are roads?
These were religious wars fought to control the Holy Land.
What were the Crusades?
The fall of this city to Muslim conquerors reduced the influence of Eastern Christianity
Where is Constantinople?
This city is important to Christians and Muslims
Where is Jerusalem?
Roman trade networks extended all the way east to this Ancient Kingdom.
Where is China?
Despite their different languages, this religion helped unite tribes of Europe.
What is Christianity?
This is when people adopt a new religion and its practices.
What is religious conversion?
This was the name for the 1000 year union of Catholic states in Italy and Germany.
What was the Holy Roman Empire?
This city was the eastern capital of the Christian Church which fell to Muslim Turks in 1453.
Where is Constantinople?
The Muslim Caliphate was throughout these two regions.
Where are the Middle East and North Africa?
Islam became dominant in Asia and North Africa after the death of this Muslim Prophet.
Who is Muhammad?