Wars and Death
This was a serious, potentially fatal infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, typically transmitted to humans via flea bites from infected rodents during the Middle Ages.
What was the Black Death or Bubonic Plague
The religion is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. It began in the Roman province of Judea.
What is Christianity?
This continent includes Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, and the Holy Roman Empire.
What is Europe?
People in the Arabian Desert built deep wells, dams, and systems to bring water to dry places. This is called__________________.
What is irrigation, or to irrigate?
an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.
What is a compass?
This was a series of wars that the European Christians fought in for the Holy Lands.
What were the Crusades?
This religion began with a man named Muhammad in the city of Mecca. He was visited by the angel Gabriel to spread God's word.
What is Islam?
A huge desert stretching across most of North Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
1400–1600 this was a fervent "rebirth" of European culture, art, science, and learning, bridging the Middle Ages and modernity
What is the Renaissance?
an imaginary line circling the center of the Earth at the equator, dividing the planet into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
He led the Roman armies through the Gallic Wars and defeated his political rival Pompey. Unfortunately, a group of senators led by Brutus and Cassius assassinated him on the Ides of March.
Who was Julius Caesar?
This is the name of Islam's holy book.
What is the Quran?
The longest river in West Africa, and a kind of trading highway in early times
What is the Nile River?
A series of steps is followed to solve problems, including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.
What is the Scientific Method?
the world's designated 0° longitude line, acting as the starting point for measuring distance east and west across Earth
What is the Prime Meridian?
This famous man was the King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia. He thought he was the son of Zeus.
Who was Alexander the Great?
He initiated the Protestant Reformation, fundamentally altering Western Christianity. His most famous action was posting the "Ninety-five Theses" in 1517, which criticized the Roman Catholic Church's sale of indulgences.
Who was Martin Luther?
Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic.
What is the Sahel?
Who invented gunpowder?
Who are the Chinese (The Tang dynasty)?
The 1st amendment
What is the freedom of speech, religion, and press?
Between 1337 and 1453, England and France fought in a series of Wars over French lands. The long conflict helped weaken feudalism in these countries. A 17-year-old peasant girl, Joan of Arc, helped France win this war.
What was the Hundred Years War?
He was the founder of the Holy Roman Empire (760) and considered the ideal ruler.
Who was Charlemagne or Charles the Great?
This Peninsula is where the prophet Muhammad was from and where he started the religion os Islam.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
This African kingdom is most associated with using silent barter to keep gold locations a secret.
What is Ghana?
The 5th Amendment (name two parts)
What is the right to not self-incriminate, double jeopardy, and protects people from being held for a crime unless accused.