Japanese feudalism had strict class structure
Name the four social classes.
What is Shogun, daimyo, samurai, peasants
100
Government in which people get to choose/vote for their leaders
What is a republic?
100
Religious wars
Christians vs Muslims
Fighting over Jerusalem (Holy Land)
Muslims win
What are the crusades?
100
What three religions are monotheistic?
What is Islam, Judaism, and Christianity?
100
What did the Four River Valleys Have in Common?
What is they settled near rivers, farmers, polytheistic, kings for leaders.
200
Japan - Cut into the mountains to make the land flat for farming
What is terrace farming?
200
He spread Hellenistic culture through conquest
Who was Alexander the Great?
200
Crusades impacted the world in three ways, what are two?
What is
1. Increased cultural diffusion (western world and eastern world)
2. Trade increased: silks, spices, porcelain
3. Growth of cities and towns
200
Who was the creator of Buddhism?
What is Siddhartha Gautama
200
Pharaoh
Ruled by Divine Right
Hieroglyphics
What river valley civilization is it
What is Egypt?
300
China’s Golden Age (peace, prosperity, math/science achievements)
What is the Han dynasty?
300
Greece was a collection of city-states
Sparta: ?
Athens: ?
What is Sparta = military
Athens = democracy
300
Faith, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage
What is the five pillars of Islam?
300
Cuneiform
Hammurabi’s Code
Punishments based on social class
What civilization is this?
What is Tigris & Euphrates Mesopotamia
400
They kicked the Mongols out of China
Zheng He went of seven voyages of exploration for China
Who are the Ming?
400
Ancient Rome:
The trade route connecting Rome and China
What is the silk road?
400
Paying the Church for forgiveness of your sins
What are indulgences?
Martin Luther and 95 Theses: attacked Church abuses
Attacked indulgences - reformation
400
Holy books are the Vedas, belief in reincarnation, Moksha, Karma, Dharma, Varna
What is Hinduism?
400
Harappa and Mohenjo Daro: two main city-states
Urban planning: streets laid out in a grid pattern
What is Indus River Valley, India
500
Genghis Khan created the largest land empire in the world
Kublai Khan conquered China
They were leaders of what group?
Who are the Mongols?
500
Ancient Rome:
Law code that made sure the laws applied fairly to all people
Everyone equal under the law
What are the 12 Tables?
500
It became powerful during the Middle Ages, with both religious and secular power
It expanded its role into politics
Inquisition- discovery and punishment of heresy, which was marked by the severity of questioning and punishment and lack of rights afforded to the accused
What is the Catholic Church?
500
Four Noble Truths
Eightfold Path
Nirvana - point which reincarnation stops and suffering/desire have been eliminated