Historical Concepts
A diary of a Holocaust survivor is a classic example of this type of source, which provides a first-hand account of an event.
What is a primary source?
The Eightfold Path, the Four Noble Truths, and the concept of reaching nirvana are all central to this major religion.
What is Buddhism?
This massive, ancient overland trade route had the primary purpose of facilitating luxury trade between Europe and East Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
This socio-economic system dominated medieval times, relying on peasants and knights working and fighting for nobles in exchange for land and protection.
What is Feudalism?
The Bubonic Plague initially entered the interior of Europe via trade ships docking at these specific types of geographical locations.
What are Mediterranean Sea ports?
This type of source, such as a history textbook or an encyclopedia article, analyzes or interprets a historical event after the fact.
What is a secondary source?
Providing a strict guide to proper ethical and moral behavior is a core similarity between the Ten Commandments in Judaism/Christianity and this set of rules in Islam.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
Alongside silk, spices, and porcelain, this major Eastern religion traveled from India to China along global trade routes.
What is Buddhism?
Signed by King John in 1215, the primary purpose of this historic document was to limit the absolute power of the monarch.
What is the Magna Carta?
These were the tell-tale symptoms someone had contracted the Bubonic Plague.
What are buboes, fever, swelling, pooling blood, headache?
The Ancient Athenians are globally credited with establishing early governments that contained these types of citizens-voting elements.
What are democratic elements?
This term describes the rigid social class structure in ancient India that was deeply intertwined with Hindu beliefs regarding karma and rebirth.
What is the caste system?
This group of nomadic people established the largest land empire in history in East Asia.
These extensive religious military campaigns were fought over centuries primarily between Christians and Muslims for control of the Holy Land.
What were the Crusades?
This symptom, common to many deadly infections, was not typically associated with the plague, unlike high fevers and agonizing skin sores.
What is hair falling out?
In this specific type of democratic system, citizens do not vote on every law directly; instead, they elect officials to vote and make laws on their behalf.
What is a Representative Democracy?
This word means that the religion only believes in one singular god.
What is monotheistic?
These seasonal, predictable winds in the Indian Ocean allowed merchants to easily sail back and forth between East Africa, Arabia, and India.
What are the monsoon winds?
Bound to the land they worked, this class of peasants sat at the absolute bottom of the medieval European feudal pyramid.
What are serfs?
Because the Black Death wiped out roughly one-third of Europe's population, the sudden, extreme shortage of peasant labor led directly to the collapse of this economic system.
What is the manorial system (or feudalism)?
In contrast to representative systems, this ancient Athenian system allowed all eligible citizens to vote directly on laws and state concerns.
What is a Direct Democracy?
These three religions all share the same God, but interpret and add on to the previous ones.
This was the first example of biological warfare, demonstrated by the Mongols.
What was catapulting plague-ridden bodies over city walls?
This powerful religious institution held supreme cultural, political, and spiritual authority across Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
What carried the Bubonic plague from ships, to ports, to the interior of Europe?
What are rats?