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What modern day business was developed in Baghdad to serve citizens who were ill?
Hospitals.
100
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo.
100
Which of the following was a result of the plague in Europe?
Economic decline.
100
What was the Silk Road?
Trade route between the Roman Empire and China.
100
What was the geographical feature that helped isolate India and China?
Himalayan Mountains.
200
The campaign to drive the Muslims out of Spain was called what?
Reconquista.
200
Which financial innovation of the Muslims would be important to a person traveling from Texas to Louisiana?
The ability to write a check.
200
Define theocracy.
Leaders rule by divine authority.
200
What was created by the Aryans in India?
Caste system.
200
What did the geography of Greece help create?
Small city-states.
300
Why was the Magna Carta so important?
It asserted that the king must obey the law.
300
What game that was introduced to the Europeans in the thirteenth century?
Chess.
300
How was Hammurabi remembered?
His law code, a collection of 282 laws.
300
Between China and India, what concept ONLY applies to India?
India had more contact with other societies and civilizations.
300
What was the real change in the Neolithic Revolution?
Shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture.
400
What was the chief goal of the Crusades?
To free the Holy Land.
400
The artists of the Renaissance focused on what concept?
Humans and their experience.
400
Name the period before writing was developed.
Prehistory.
400
Define Daoism.
Accepting the world as you find it, avoiding useless struggles and adhering to the “path of nature.”
400
What did Buddha’s Four Noble Truths emphasized?
Worldly sorrow and misery could be ended only by a life of selflessness.
500
Why is Joan of Arc remembered?
She led the French to victories against the English in the Hundred Years War.
500
How did the three-field system contribute to the agricultural revolution that took place during the Middle Ages?
It allowed peasants to grow more crops.
500
Why was Judaism different from the other religions?
Monotheistic.
500
What was the reason why Buddha taught that people suffered in life?
Desire for happiness and richness.
500
What are the names of the two sects of Islam?
Sunni and Shi’a
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