Americas
Land bridge over which the earliest Americans are believed to have migrated
What is Beringia?
Code of behavior of the samurai
What is bushido?
Economic system of the Middle Ages
What is the manor system?
First empire builder
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
Cause of the end of prehistory
What is the creation of writing?
Established mountain empire of Peru with social organization of their peoples
Who are the Inca?
Supreme general of the emperor's army
What is a shogun?
First to reunite Europe since the fall of the Western Empire
Who is Charlemagne?
Home of the ghazis
What is Anatolia?
Characteristic of feudalism
What is a system of mutual exchanges, rights and obligations...land exchanged for military service?
Last mound builder culture
What is the Mississippian?
Earliest religion of Japan
What is Shintoism?
Two terms of the Concordat of Worms
What is: the church can appoint bishops (and give them the ring and staff), and the kings can veto
Birthplace of civilization
What is Mesopotamia?
Result of the Peloponnesian War
What is the victory of Sparta (defeat of Athens)?
2 legacies of the Mesoamerican cultures
What are their writing systems and 2 calendars?
Used to justify the rise and fall of leaders and empires
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Held that the religion of each German state could be determined by its ruler
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
First type of government in Sumerian city-states
What is theocracy?
Mauryan emperor embracing Buddhism
Who is Asoka?
Inhabited southern Mexico, hosted ritual ball games, created glyphs and a creation story (Popul Vuh)
Who are the Maya?
Shi Huangdi's centralization program
What is "strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches"?
Declared the monarch, not the pope to be the head of the Anglican church
What is the Act of Supremacy?
Capital of the Assyrian Empire
What is Nineveh?
Legacy of Athens
What is democracy?