One is information created later by someone who did not have first-hand experience of something and the other is an object or other first-hand record of someone who experienced a time period.
What is the difference between a secondary and primary source.
100
Three main commodities that were traded on the Silk Road.
What are silk, gold, silver, gems, furs, spices, porcelain, glass.
100
The disease that killed nearly half of Europe's population as it entered around 1347. It also drastically affected China, where it originated, India and the Middle East.
What is the Black Death.
100
Islamic titles for a ruler: One is a religious and political leader and the other is just a political leader.
What is a caliph and a sultan or sultana.
100
The meaning and intention of the Renaissance.
What is the rebirth of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
200
The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale exchange is called this.
What is commerce.
200
What are the four categories of things that were moved along the Silk Road's trade routes.
What are goods, technology, ideas and people.
200
The first large scale war by Europeans since the fall of Rome.
What is the Crusades.
200
This consumer good was at the core of much of the Caliphate's economic growth and wealth.
What are textiles.
200
The book written by Machiavelli that suggests that leaders must leave Christian ideals of kindness and honesty behind and focus on cultivating deception and the art of war.
What is The Prince.
300
The shift from a population from farms to towns and cities is called this.
What is urbanization.
300
Trade on the Silk Road was made easier under Muslim rule using this monetary substitute that is still used today.
What is a check.
300
A system where peasants work the land and pay taxes to knights and nobles in exchange for protection.
What is the Feudal System.
300
The pilgrimage to Mecca (in modern day Saudi Arabia) that is supposed to be carried out by Muslims at least once in their life time.
What is the hajj.
300
The Italian city-state that defied the Pope's orders to NOT trade with the Ottoman Empire.
What is Venice.
400
When something is non-religious.
What is secular.
400
The original peoples that began to connect the civilizations of China, India and the Middle East.
What are the nomadic peoples of Central Asia.
400
In 732, the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate was defeated by Frankish (later French) forces, marking a halt to Muslim expansion into Europe for hundreds of years.
What is the Battle of Tours.
400
The largest interior space in the world for 1000 years, the Hagia Sofia Orthodox Church in Constantinople was converted to a mosque in in what Ottoman city.
What is Istanbul.
400
Examples of the main patrons of artists during the Italian Renaissance.
What are the Pope and the Church, the Medici family, or the Sforza Family.
500
The profession, activity, or skill of managing relations between cultures. It is typically done by a country's or culture's representatives abroad.
What is diplomacy.
500
The names of four civilizations connected by the Silk Road.
What are China, India, Persia, the Ottomans, Arabs, African kingdoms, Rome or Renaissance Italy.
500
Many knights never returned from the Crusades to watch over peasants, allowing them to escape; More jobs were being created in cities as demand for goods to trade on the Silk Road grew; Disease killed many peasants, forcing main Kings to take control of more land from nobles to get the taxes they wanted (centralization of power).
What are the factors that led to the fall of the Feudal System in Europe.
500
A region and two waterways key to Europeans trading on the Silk Road that were controlled by Muslims.
What is the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea, the Red Sea, or the Dardanelles.
500
3 big factors that gave way to the Renaissance.
What are increasing urbanization, increasing secularism, increased access to Ancient Greek and Roman texts, and renewed trade through the Middle East.