Vocabulary
A physical feature of the Earth's surface, such as a desert, mountain, or river
What is a landform?
The map shows the major landforms of this country
What is Europe?
This person is known as King Charles the Great
Who is Charlemagne?
Charlemagne helped spread this religion throughout Europe
What is Christianity?
The five core beliefs and practices of Islam
What is the Five Pillars of Islam?
A journey made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion
What is a pilgrimage?
This sea separates Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Red Sea?
This person was the first monarch to promote English as the primary language throughout his kingdom
Who is King Henry V?
The holiest book in Islam
What is the Qur'an?
The spread of people, products, technology, and ideas from one culture to another
What is cultural diffusion?
A widespread bacterial disease that is contagious
What is a plague?
This land is bordered by the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf
What is the Persian Gulf?
This person is founder of Islam
Muhammad
This religious group established control of the Holy Land
Who are the Muslims?
After the fall of Rome, Charlemagne turned this system of local control into a type of government
What is Feudalism?
An organized massacre
What is a pogrom?
This type of landform can be found in and around Africa and Southwest Asia
What are deserts, seas, oceans, mountains, grasslands?
This person helped France win the Battle of Orleans in France
Who is Joan of Arc?
This person called on the Crusades to retake the Holy Land
Who is the Pope?
A written documents of rights that established a rule of law, limited the monarch's power, created a right to trial by jury and protected human rights
What is the Magna Carta?
An especially widespread disease that can affect a whole country or the world
Pandemic
This type of landform helped increase trade in Europe
What are seas and an ocean? (Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, English Channel, and Black Sea)
This person developed a very precise solar calendar, the Jalali, which some consider to be even better than the Gregorian calendar that is used today
Who is Omar Khayyam?
During the Black Death, this religious group experienced antisemitism from the Christian people
Who are the Jews?
Nearly half the people died, and the rest lived in mortal fear during this plague
What is Black Death or Bubonic Plague