UNIT 1 - CIVILIZATION (1)
UNIT 1 - CIVILIZATION(2)
UNIT 2 - RELIGION (1)
UNIT 2 - RELIGION (2)
HISTORY MYSTERY!!!
100
This term means "new stone age".
What is "Neolithic"?
100
This is the science concerned with farming land and livestock...and even had a revolution named after it :)
What is agriculture?
100
The development of Western moral and ethical teachings were greatly influenced by this religious document of the ancient Hebrews. Hint: this religious document greatly influences the daily lives of Christians around the world (and Jewish and Muslim people as well). Hint: this document also influenced the "Golden Rule".
What is the Ten Commandments?
100
This religion is the "newest" or most recently developed. Hint: this religion believes in the "Five Pillars of Faith" Hint: the followers of this religion are called muslims
What is Islam?
200
Humans "hunted and gathered" during this Stone Age.
What is the "Old Stone Age"?
200
This trade route went all the way from China to the Mediterranean Sea (and into Europe) and is historically important due to the spread of culture and goods. Hint: Marco Polo traveled the entire length of it. Hint: It was famous for the trading of silk.
What is the "Silk Road"?
200
Jewish and Christian people differ from the Greco-Roman people because of this extremely different view concerning "God". Hint: this is concerning their "spiritual" beliefs...who they worship.
What is the belief in one God?
200
This term means the belief in many Gods.
What is polytheistic?
200
Heretics (people who went against the "preferred" and dominant Catholic religion) were tortured during this historical event that took place from the 12th-19th centuries. Hint: After being hounded by question after question from the store clerk who is falsely accusing you of "stealing" a sip of a Slurpee, you might anxiously say, "Sorry, I wasn't expecting the ______ _______!"
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
300
This moon-shaped land was extremely suitable for farming due to the silt left behind from annual floods. Hint: the term used to describe really good soil for farming combined with the term for moon-shaped Hint: moon-shaped term is also the brand name of my nephew's favorite "dinner rolls"
What is the "Fertile Crescent"?
300
This empire established caravan routes all across Asia and Europe during the 13th century...creating a controlled territory known as Eurasia. Hint: this empire was led by Genghis Khan
What is the Mongol Empire?
300
This religious symbol represents a dualism in which everything is in conflict, and nothing can be resolved. Hint: this was also used by the Chinese as an ancient symbol of the universe Hint: This symbol is often used in the religion Confucianism or Taoism
What is the "yin and yang" symbol?
300
This term is of great importance in the development of societies across the world from the earliest civilizations to the present-day. Hint: Today, the world is dominated by 5 major "groups". Hint: Each group of people associated with this term have unique beliefs, symbols, and texts.
What is religion?
300
The children's nursery rhyme, "Ring Around the Rosie" is actually a sad tale about this.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
400
Many civilizations were developed around these geographic features. Hint: silt was often found around these features due to annual flooding
What is rivers for a water supply (farming, transportation, daily activities)? OR What is valleys (because of fertile soil found in valleys...floods leave silt)
400
Mathematics and astronomy are the best known achievements of this Mesoamerican civilization. Hint: this civilization also created one of the 1st calendars Hint: it was located where present-day Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and part of southern Mexico
What is the Maya?
400
This religious group of people travelled all across Africa to spread the word of their God and convert the natives to their religion.
What are Christian missionaries?
400
This religion believes in the "Four Noble Truths" and the idea of "nirvana".
What is Buddhism?
400
Hammurabi's law code believed this about punishment. Hint: "an eye for an eye"
What is it was often harsh?
500
This is the best explanation for why so little is known about the Indus River Valley civilization. Hint: "a picture can be worth a thousand words"
What is the inscriptions on their artifacts are too brief or simple to allow historians to interpret their language?
500
This is the spreading of a cultural trait from one society to another society...and is the reason that the calendar that we use today is similar to the one developed by ancient Egyptians.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
Jerusalem, Israel has been the epicenter of conflict for centuries between these three religions. Hint: these 3 religions all believe in the same God (also monotheistic)
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
500
These two religions contributed to violent conflicts in India during and after their struggle for independence.
What is Islam and Hinduism?
500
The Crusades were a series of violent conflicts in which the "Crusaders" were attempting to gain complete dominance and control in the name of this religion.
What is Christianity? (attempts to make Christianity the only religion and have absolute control of Jerusalem)
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