Geography
History - World Religions
Vocabulary
Empires
Inventions and History
100
The region of the Middle East closest to the Mediterranean Sea. 
What is the Levant?
100
One of the oldest, still practiced world religions, originating in northern India, polytheistic, rebirth, karma, dharma and reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
100
To disagree with popular opinion, even if it is not popular. For example, what this man did by refusing to salute to the Nazis as his fellow workers around him did. 
What is to dissent?
100
This was the tomb built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his favorite wife, Mumtaz when she died. It is one of the most visited places in the world. 
What is the Taj Mahal?
100
This energy and technology powered ships across these oceans until the 1800s.
What are wind and sails?
200
What is Anatolia?
200
Oldest of the Abrahamic religions, founded in the Levant, 10 Commandments, they were monotheistic people in a polytheistic world, the Torah is their holy book.
What is Judaism?
200
The horrific, violent, deadly journey for captured enslaved African people across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas is called this euphemism.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
All of the following describe the empires of the Golden Age of Islam (Dar al Islam) circa the 9th to 13th centuries EXCEPT:
1. Full of sophisticated artwork such as the Ife Heads.
2. Primitive, nomadic and mostly illiterate societies.
3. Palaces, mosques, libraries and universities (Madrasas)
4. Centers of global trade of commodities such as salt, copper, gold, horses, humans and textiles.
What are 2. "primitive, nomadic and mostly illiterate societies".
200
This was adapted by Gutenberg in the 16th century from the woodblock technology invented much earlier in China. It would permanently change how information was shared, and increase literacy throughout Europe and elsewhere.
What is the printing press?
300
What is the Caribbean Islands aka the West Indies?
300
Founded circa the 7th century ce in the Arabian Peninsula (Mecca, specifically); the prophet Muhammed is their founded, and its early spread across the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, Silk and Trans-Saharan networks were through trade and merchants, and later spread through conquering empires.
What is Islam?
300
In a patriarchal society, these people are given greater rights and control over government and society.
Who are men?
300
An accurate description of much of central and western Europe (what was loosely organized as the Holy Roman Empire) politically between the 16th and 17th centuries is this.
What is fragmented into many different kingdoms?
300
James Watt, powered by coal, this revolutionized what powered factories, ships, trains and industry altogether.
What is steam power?
400
Austria, France, Russia, England, Germany and Italy are all located on this continent.
What is Europe?
400
Martin Luther, 95 Thesis, challenge to the authority of the Papacy, 16th to 17th centuries, Central and Western Europe.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
400
The belief that a ruler’s authority comes directly from god.
What is divine right?
400
The goals of the Ming Dynasty’s voyages by Admiral Zheng He were (2)
a. To expand China’s empire and conquer India and the Arabian peninsula
b. To complete the construction of the Grand Canal and Great Wall
c. To establish diplomacy with other countries leaders and bring them back to China to meet the emperor.
d. To establish trade dominance and connections over the Indian Ocean.
e. To explore the Americas and claim them for the Ming Dynasty.
What are
c. To establish diplomacy with other countries leaders and bring them back to China to meet the emperor.
d. To establish trade dominance and connections over the Indian Ocean?
400
The domestication of this animal in the 1st century CE made long distance trade across the Sahara possible.
What is the camel?
500
India, Italy, North and South Korea, Spain and Portugal are all located on this type of a landmass that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
500
Founded in Northern India by Siddhartha Gautama (the Enlightened One), it spread along the Silk Trade Networks to the east and became interwoven into the fabric of Eastern cultures such as the Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese just to name a few.
What is Buddhism?
500
After 1492, this introduced new plants, animals, diseases and people from the "old world" to the "new world" and vice versa; for indigenous peoples of the Americas this would be catastrophic.
What is the Columbian or Great Exchange?
500
The British had become addicted to _______ which came from China but was introduced by a Portuguese noblewoman who became Queen of England when she married King Charles II. In order to gain it without spending all of their silver, they illegally imported ___________ into China in the 19th century.
What is tea and opium?
500
The Ming Dynasty practiced an early form of vaccination for smallpox called this.
What is variolation?
600
You would cross this ocean would you have to cross to go from the west coast of Africa to the east coast of the United States (aka New Jersey, where we live).
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
600
This is the English Tudor king who broke away from the Catholic Church because he wanted an annulment from his wife and the pope refused.
Who was King Henry VIII (8th)?
600
This was the method used by western powers in China and Japan in the mid 19th century to force open trade and gain advantage through a series of unequal treaties led by the British, French and United States.
What is "gunboat diplomacy"?
600
All of the following are Eurocentric, western myths regarding Africa and its history EXCEPT
a. African societies were all tribal, without permanent housing structures or organized government and religions.
b. Slavery in African societies was the same type of slavery that African people were forced into in the Americas
c. Africa is monolithic and devoid of any notable history prior to European contact and colonization.
d. Africa was, and is diverse with rich traditions of art, learning, and architecture prior to European colonization.
e. African artifacts obtained due to looting during colonialism are best kept in western museums for people to learn from them and have access to them.
What is c. Africa is monolithic and devoid of any notable history prior to European contact and colonization?
600
This
infrastructure was first developed back approximately 500 bce and was further completed by the Ming Dynasty is still in use in China today and essential for the movement of people and commodities?
What is the Grand Canal?
700
Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Mongolia are all countries located on this continent.
What is Asia?
700
Later in Martin Luther’s life, he wrote extensively anti-Semitic works because these people did not convert to Lutheran Christianity in the Protestant Reformation.
Who were the Jews?
700
In dynastic Chinese history the belief is that when rulers are defeated in wars, natural disasters happen, they lead poorly, experience famines and other difficulties that lead to their decline that they have lost.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
700
The last dynasty in China that would replace the Ming and end in 1911 was ______________, who had invaded from the northern region of Manchuria.
Who were the Qing Dynasty?
700
This was not a new invention utilized in World War I -
machine guns
poison gas
rifles
airplanes
submarines
What are rifles?