Unit 1- early civilizations
This civilization settled by the Tigres and Euphrates rivers
Mesopotamia
What city-state in Greece is known as the birthplace of democracy?
Athens
Who was the founder of Islam?
Muhammad
What was the economic and political system in Europe during the Middle Ages
Feudalism
This Mesoamerican civilization was located on the Yucatan peninsula
Mayan
This civilization was known as the Gift of the Nile
Egypt
Who fought in the Peloponnesian wars?
Athens and Sparta
What are the two divisions of Islam?
Sunni and Shia
A small piece of land given for service was called a
fief
The joint stock company that controlled the spice trades in the East Indies
Dutch East Indian Company
India was settled by what two rivers?
Indus and Ganges
What Roman Emperor moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople?
Constantine
What was the center of knowledge in Islam called
House of Wisdom
The Catholic Church's attempt to stop the Protestant Reformation was called
Counter Reformation
This Mesoamerican civilization's capital was the city of Cuzco
Inca
What was the first empire in India?
Maurya empire
Who became the first emperor of Rome?
Augustus Caesar
Who was the king of Mali who travelled to Mecca and passed out gold to the people he met?
Mansa Musa
Machiavelli
This explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa and discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias
What was the Gupta's empire lasting legacy
Creating the concept of zero
Which civilization began trading with the Byzantine Empire and would later copy everything that they did?
Russia
What trading cities were located on the eastern coast of Africa and were connected to the Indian Ocean?
Swahili trading cities
Pope declared him emperor on Christmas Day in 800
Charlemagne
economic concept where European businesses used the raw materials from colonies to make finished goods and then sell them back to the colonist.
Mercantilism