General
The change from hunting and nomads to farming and establishing villages.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
The fall of this empire lead to the Middle Ages in Western Europe.
What is the Roman Empire?
These are natural resources found in West Africa.
What are gold and salt?
The Mongols controlled land in these 3 continents.
What is Asia, Africa and Europe.
A source from the time period
What is a primary source
The 10 Commandments and the Analects of Confucius are similar because they are both examples of this.
What is a text that provide guidance for how to live.
(Belief Systems, or guides to behavior)
The Eastern part of the former Roman Empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Paper, moveable type, block printing, the compass and gunpowder are all inventions of this civilization
What is China?
The trade route that connected Europe to Asia
What is the silk road?
The ability to be counted on for accuracy, honesty, or consistent results
what is reliability?
Christianity began in the region.
What is the Middle East?
The lowest social class in feudalism. They performed labor (work) on the lords manor in exchange for safety from invasion.
what are peasants?
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
Born Temüjin c. 1162–1227, he was the legendary founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
Who was Genghis Khan?
The establishment of the first civilizations was the effect of this revolution.
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
The ideas of Confucius are most closely related to this society.
What is the Han Dynasty. (classical China)
a division of a society based on some characteristic
What is a social class?
Islam originated in this region.
What is the Middle East?
A time period in the 13th-14th century, which was an era of relative stability and peace across Eurasia
What was the Pax Mongolia
These are rules that help historians determine if a source is reliable.
Every piece of evidence and every source must be viewed critically.
Each piece of evidence and source must be cross checked.
This area was most affected by the spread of both Islam and Buddhism.
What is the Indian subcontinent?
the dominant social system in medieval Europe in which labor was exchanged for protection
What is feudalism?
A time period where a civilization has great achievements in art, literature and science.
What is a golden age?
People who wander from place to place without a permanent home
What are nomads?