Mesopotamia
Ancient China/India/Egypt
Ancient Rome/Greece
Middle Ages
Renaissance/
Reformation
100
A system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
100
A philosphy based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Laozi, who taught that people should be guided by a universal force.
What is Taosim?
100
A fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city.
What is acropolis?
100
A deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe on the mid 14th century, killing millions on people.
What is Bubonic Plague?
100
A Roman Catholic tribunalfor investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy - especially the one active during Spain during the 1400s.
What is Inquisition?
200
An area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Hindu universal singular principle.
What is Brahma?
200
Government controlled by its citizens.
What is democracy.
200
A series of religious wars during the middle ages between Christians and Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
200
A body of religious teachings based on the ideas of reformer John Calvin
What is Calvinism?
300
Thought to be the first people to form what we today call a civilization
What is Sumerians?
300
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.
What are hieroglyphics?
300
In ancient Rome, a political leader given absolute power to make laws and command the army for a limited time.
What is dictator
300
City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live.
What are ghettos?
300
Brought movable type to Europe.
Who is Gutenberg?
400
First uniformed law code.
What is Hammuradi's Code?
400
A tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paperlike material for writing.
What is papyrus?
400
A military unit of the ancient Roman army, made up of about 5,000 foot soldiers and a group of soldiers on horseback.
What is a legion?
400
A dynasty of Frankish rulers, lasting from 751-987 CE.
What is Carolingian Dynasty?
400
The doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be eternally saved.
What is predestination?
500
Area that shared a culture and developed their own government. They function much like an independent country does today.
What is a city-state?
500
Chinese book of oracles, consulted to answer ethical and practical problems.
What is I Ching?
500
In Roman times, a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
What is a patrician?
500
A Muslim-ruled region in what is now Spain, established in the eight century CE.
What is al-Andalus?
500
The everyday language of people in a region or country.
What is vernacular?
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