Ancient Civilizations
This “New Stone Age” revolution happened when humans learned to farm and domesticate animals.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
A religion that believes in only one God is called this.
What is monotheism?
This long trade route connected China to the Mediterranean world.
What is the Silk Road?
This invention helped spread Renaissance and Reformation ideas quickly.
What is the printing press?
This term means when a strong country conquers and controls a weaker country.
What is imperialism?
This international organization was created after World War II to promote peace and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
The term to describe events or experiences that effect humans throughout history.
What is enduring issues?
Early civilizations often developed near these because they provided fertile soil, irrigation, and transportation.
What are river valleys?
These three religions are the major monotheistic religions.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
This was the 200-year Golden Age of Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
This Renaissance idea focused on humans and life on Earth rather than only religion.
What is humanism?
European countries wanted these from Africa and Asia to use in their factories.
What are raw materials/natural resources?
This wall divided East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
These social scientists study written records of past events.
Who are historians?
Ancient China was isolated from other civilizations because of these natural features.
What are mountains and deserts?
This Buddhist code teaches people how to end suffering and desire.
What is the Eightfold Path?
This process means the exchange of goods, ideas, and culture between societies.
What is cultural diffusion?
This revolution overthrew King Louis XVI and fought for more rights in France.
What is the French Revolution?
This treaty severely punished Germany after World War I and helped lead to World War II.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Cold War policy was used by the United States to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This type of source is created by someone who actually experienced the event.
What is a primary source?
This ancient Mesopotamian law code is known for harsh punishments such as “an eye for an eye.”
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This person founded Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama/the Buddha?
This empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire after the western half fell.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This Enlightenment thinker believed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This term means the right of ethnic groups to create their own governments.
What is self-determination?
This genocide took place during World War II and targeted Jewish people and other groups.
What is the Holocaust?
A global citizen should protect these because they belong to all people, no matter where they live.
What are human rights?
This Indian social hierarchy placed people into groups they were born into and could not leave.
What is the caste system?
This person posted his 95 thesis against the catholic church.
Who is Martin Luther?
These Chinese dynasties are known for inventions like gunpowder, the compass, and block printing.
What are the Tang and Song Dynasties?
This Scientific Revolution thinker developed the heliocentric theory.
Who is Copernicus?
This idea applied “survival of the fittest” to countries and was used to justify imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
This Cold War crisis occurred when nuclear missiles were placed in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This environmental issue is caused by gases trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect/global warming?