Unit 1
The change from hunting and gathering to settled farming.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The first emperor of China.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
The lowest level in the Hindu Caste system.
Who are the untouchables?
The focus on the beauty of the human mind, body, and ability during the Renaissance.
What is humanism?
The pre-Columbian civilization whose empire stretched almost the entire western coast of South America.
An object made or used by humans that helps us understand past civilizations.
What is an artifact?
This allowed messengers, merchants, and others to travel safely throughout the Persian empire.
What is the royal road?
What the three Western religions have in common.
Monotheistic, believe in the same god, hearth in the Middle East, Abrahamic faiths.
The ruling family of Florence, patrons of Michelangelo.
Who are the Medici family?
The reason Europeans started exploring.
What is the search for spices?
The four earliest human civilizations.
What are Egypt, Sumer, Indus Valley, and China?
The type of government developed in ancient Athens?
What is democracy?
The social system in Europe in the Middle Ages, with kings on top and serfs on the bottom.
Feudalism.
Martin Luther's two main issues with the Catholic Church.
The reasons European explorers were able to conquer pre-Columbian civilizations.
What are spreading diseases and more advanced weapons?
The law code created in Babylon known for its harsh punishments (an eye for an eye).
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The class in ancient Rome with the most power; they made up the Senate.
Who are the patricians?
An impact of the Crusades on life in Europe.
Decline of feudalism, increased interest in trade with the East, persecution of Jews.
The difference between Middle Ages art and Renaissance Art.
The name given to the widespread transfer of plants, animals, goods, and ideas between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The job title of people who read and write, which was highly valued in ancient Egypt.
What is scribe?
Two major impacts of the Silk Road.
What are the growth of cities, cultural diffusion, merchants getting richer...
A social impact of the Black Death on life in Europe.
Decrease in confidence in the Catholic Church, persecution of Jews.
The inventor of the printing press.
The items traded along each of the three legs of the Middle Passage (from Europe to Africa, Africa to the Americas, and the Americas to Europe).
What are manufactured goods, slaves, and raw materials?