Religion
What belief system is associated with monotheism, the Bible, and the 10 commandments?
What is Christianity?
The Indus and Huang He (Yellow) rivers are both closely associated with
Cradles of early civilization
The Punic Wars were between these two Empires
Carthage and The Roman Empire
Which empire founded democracy?
Athens
How did the Black Death start?
Flea bit a rat, then a person
What belief system is associated with monotheism and the 5 Pillars of Faith?
What is Islam?
One way in which the Huang He, the Indus, and the Nile civilizations were similar is that they each
Originated in river valleys
What war was between Athens and Sparta?
Peloponnesian War
What is an Archipelago?
A group of islands
Where did the Black Death have its biggest impact?
Europe
What belief system is associated with the caste system, karma, and moksha?
What is Hinduism?
What environmental issue faced the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China?
Catastrophic floods that destroyed crops and villages
What wars were between European Christians and Muslims?
What was Ancient Sparta known for?
Military
To conquer Jerusalem.
What belief system is associated with the four noble truths, nirvana, and the eightfold path?
Buddhism
"If a man has destroyed the eye of a free man, his own eye shall be destroyed"
This rule is based on
Code of Hammurabi
What war did the Greeks win to defeat Persia?
The Greco-Persian Wars
Philosophy
Why did the Crusades begin?
Emperor Alexius of Byzantine Empire contacted Pope Urban II for help against Muslims.
Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of which belief system?
Buddhism
One reason the Euphrates, Indus, Nile, and Tigris valleys became centers of early civilization is that these valleys had
locations in regions of moderate climate and abundant rainfall
What animal started to be used in battle due to Alexander the Great's conquest of northern India?
Elephants
What body of water was important for Greek trading?
What is a long-term impact of the Crusades.