Early Civilizations and Geography
This revolution changed humans from nomadic hunters and gatherers into settled farmers.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This religion follows the Five Pillars.
What is Islam?
This famous trade network connected China to the Mediterranean.
What is the Silk Road?
Under manorialism, serfs gave this in exchange for protection.
What are labor and crops?
The main goal of the Crusades.
What was to reclaim the Holy Land?
This river flooded predictably each year, creating fertile farmland that allowed Egyptian civilization to thrive.
What is the Nile River?
The founder of Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
One major economic effect of the Silk Road.
What is increased wealth through trade?
This Roman institution inspired later republics like the United States.
What is the Senate?
The pope who called for the First Crusade.
Who was Pope Urban II?
This civilization used quipu and over 25,000 miles of roads to govern its empire.
Who were the Inca?
The birthplace of Muhammad and home of the Kaaba.
What is Mecca?
The greatest negative effect of the Columbian Exchange on Native Americans.
What was the spread of Old World diseases?
One reason the Western Roman Empire fell.
What is maintaining an expensive army and relying on mercenaries?
The Black Death caused many Europeans to lose faith in this institution.
What is the Catholic Church?
These three American civilizations all depended on advanced farming methods like terraces, irrigation, or chinampas.
Who were the Maya, Aztec, and Inca?
This religion teaches reincarnation and karma.
What is Hinduism?
African culture blended into the Americas through these traditions.
What are food, music, and religion?
Greek city-states are best known for developing this form of government in Athens.
What is democracy?
The Atlantic Slave Trade caused many West African kingdoms to focus on this.
What is capturing and trading enslaved people?
The Han and Gupta Empires declined partly because of these internal problems.
What are corruption, economic instability, and peasant revolts?
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca all practiced this type of religion.
What is polytheism?
These crops depended heavily on enslaved labor in the Americas.
What are sugar, tobacco, and cotton?
The economy of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca depended primarily on this.
What is agriculture?
What was the biggest killer in the Columbian Exchange?
What is diseases?