Chapter 1
What river was important to the Egyptian civilization?
The Nile
The Iliad and Odyssey were both what?
epic poems
What was the lowest class in feudal society?
Peasants/ serfs
Who fought for the practice of lay investiture?
Pope Gregory Vll
_______ was the process of slowly a dead body to prevent it from rotting.
mummification
What age saw the height of Athenian power and brilliance?
The Age of Pericles
King John was forced by nobles to put his seal on what document?
The Magna Carta
The goal of the crusades was to free what city from Muslim control?
Jeruselum
Indus
What terrain isolated Greeks from one another?
Mountains
The Easter Slavic peoples of Moravia were converted to what religion?
Orthodox
What language was The song of Roland written in?
French
What are the 2 main rivers in India.
The Ganges and Indus rivers
what landmasses make up most of Greece?
2 peninsulas
Iron was crucial I making a heavy wheeled plow which was called what?
a carruca
The pilgrim centers Rome and Santiago De Compostela were popular during what Ages?
The high middle ages
Nomadic people in India started writing in what Indo-European language around 1000 B.C.?
Sanskrit
What word did the Greeks use for excellence?
arete
After Spains conquest by the Umayyad Caliphate in 725, it became a muslim province called what?
Al-Andalus
Popes lived in what French city from 1305-1377?
Avignon