American Civilizations
This civilization developed in the Andes Mountains of South America.
Who were the Inca?
This animal made long-distance trade across the Sahara much easier.
What is the camel?
Citizens themselves participated in making government decisions in this form of government associated with Athens.
What is direct democracy?
This invention allowed books and ideas to be reproduced much faster than copying them by hand.
What is the printing press?
The Reformation contributed to divisions between these two major Christian groups in Europe.
Who are Catholics and Protestants?
Olmec, Maya, and Aztec societies developed in this cultural region.
What is Mesoamerica?
These two valuable products were especially important to West African trade.
What are gold and salt?
Rome developed a government in which citizens elected people to represent them.
What is a republic?
This German religious reformer publicly challenged practices of the Catholic Church.
Who was Martin Luther?
Fighting during the Thirty Years’ War was especially destructive in the territories that make up much of this modern country.
What is Germany?
This Tenochtitlán was built on islands and connected by canals and causeways.
What is Aztecs?
Ghana became wealthy partly by charging these on goods traveling through its territory.
What are taxes?
In this medieval system, land, loyalty, and military service connected kings, nobles, and knights.
What is feudalism?
Wealthy merchants helped finance artists, schools, and scholars during this European cultural movement.
What is the Renaissance?
Civilians died in huge numbers during the war from these problems caused by destroyed farms, armies, and displaced populations.
What are famine, disease, and displacement?
The Inca used an enormous system of these to move soldiers, supplies, and information throughout their empire.
What are roads?
Trade with Muslim merchants helped spread this religion into West Africa.
What is Islam?
Signed in 1215, this document helped establish the idea that a king's power could have legal limits.
What is the Magna Carta?
Luther's ideas could spread across Europe rapidly because this technology allowed large numbers of copies to circulate.
What is movable-type printing/the printing press?
This 1648 settlement brought the Thirty Years’ War to an end.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
The Aztec and Inca developed different transportation systems, but both systems helped their rulers accomplish this important goal.
What is controlling and connecting a large empire?
This ruler of Mali became famous for a pilgrimage to Mecca that demonstrated Mali's enormous wealth.
Who was Mansa Musa?
After the Black Death killed millions of Europeans, surviving workers sometimes gained more power for this economic reason.
What is a Peasants could ask for a wage.
When England's monarch controlled both the government and the national church, disagreeing with the monarch's religious policies could also be viewed as this.
what is a being a heretic
As Europe moved out of the medieval period, powerful rulers began bringing smaller territories under one central government. What larger political units began to develop from this process?
What are nations (nation-states)?