Unit 1 - Culture, Geography, Neolithic River Valleys
Unit 2 - Ancient India and China
Unit 4 Islam and Africa
Unit 5 - Byzantine Empire and the Middle Ages
Unit 6- Mongols and Medieval Japan
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What 3 geographic features were common to the first four river valley civilizations?
1. Warm climate, 2. water for irrigation, and 3. sunshine for plants
100
What climatic event is essential to Indian agriculture?
monsoons
100
What specific geographic barrier did camel caravans trading salt and gold have to cross to get to the Ghana, Mali, or Songhai in West Africa?-
Sahara Desert
100
What economic activity was increased by the geographic location of Constantinople?
trade
100
What society built the largest empire in the history of the world including China, Korea, Persia and Russia?
Mongols
200
What social scientists studies what and how much to produce as well as how goods are distributed?
Economist
200
- TWO PART QUESTION Part 1 What part of Hinduism did Buddhists reject? Part 2 What belief do Hindus and Buddhists share?
1. caste system, 2. reincarnation or karma
200
What religion did Mansa Musa bring to Mali during its golden age of learning and cultural achievement?
-Islam
200
TWO PART QUESTION Part 1 -What two early civilizations were blended in the Byzantine Empire? Part 2 -What northern people were taught the Cyrillic alphabet and Orthodox Christianity?
1. Greece and Rome, 2. Russians
200
TWO PART QUESTION – PART 1 What type of geography did Japan have that limited the amount of its farmland? PART 2 Where did they turn for food?
1. Mountains, 2. sea, ocean, fishing
300
How did people change the way they got their food before and then after the Neolithic Revoltuion?
Hunting and gathering changed to farming
300
What were two mathematical advancements during the Gupta Empire in India?
1. Arabic numeral, 2. zero, 3. infinity
300
What West Africa city was the center of the salt and gold trade and capital of Mail
Timbuktu
300
was the most significant long term impact of the Crusades?
Cultural Diffusion
300
What effect did Marco Polo’s journey have on relations between China and Western Europe?
Trade and Cultural Diffusion increased
400
What are three elements of a civilized society?
Any of the following: 1. cities, permanent structures 2. Central governments and laws, 3. traditional economies, specialization of labor 4. organized religions 5. social classes 6. art and architecture 7. public works, roads, bridges 8. written language
400
TWO PART QUESTION Part 1 What period of Chinese history made Confucius very sad? Part 2 What is Confucian filial piety?
1. Warring states period, 2. respect your elders
400
What was the movement of sub Saharan African people using slash and burn agriculture to spread their civilization called?-
Bantu Migration
400
TWO PART QUESTION Part 1 - What was the Great Schism? Part 2 - What two social organizations did it create in the Eastern and Western Europe?
1. Split of Christianity 2. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
400
What was the social impact of the Mongols on Russia?----
cut off from contact and cultural diffusion from Europe, looked to the East for cultural diffusion
500
TWO PART QUESTION Part 1 What were laws of Mesopotamia which were the first written laws? Part 2 What were laws of Asoka’s Maura Empire?
1. Code of Hammarabi 2. Rock Edicts
500
TWO PART QUESTIONS Part 1 - Whose teachings were tested on Chinese civil service exams? Part 2 Why were these teaching required knowledge for Chinese government jobs?
1. Confucius, 2. keep social order and peace
500
What was both a type of mathematics and a navigation tool that was created during Islam’s golden age?
1. Algebra or Trigonometry and, 2. Astrolabe
500
TWO PART QUESTION Part 1 - What empire collapsed to begin the Middle Ages? Part 2 - What was the measure of wealth and status in the Middle Ages?
1. Roman Empire 2. amount of Land
500
TWO PART QUESTION Part 1 Bushido, samaurai, chivalry, and knight are all associated with which class of people?---Part 2 What type of political system offered land in exchange for protection?
1. warriors 2. feudalism
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