The belief that spirits inhabited animals, plants, or other natural objects
What is Animism
What were the Crusades?
A series of wars fought to take control of Jerusalem
This environmental challenge in Sumerian civilization turned soil into dust, and created famine
What is droughts
The first people came to America this way
What is via land bridge
Games in Greece to show strength of a city state
What is The olympics
This was the greatest change of way of life until the industrial revolution
What is the Neolithic Revolution
Who told the people to fight in the Crusades?
The Pope
The first great city states ever developed
What are Ur and Uruk
This type of farming was used by the Maya civilization to clear and fertilize the land at the same time
What is Burning and Clearing
The Iliad and The Odyssey
The theory that first all people lived in Africa and then migrated to other areas
In the Feudal system, who had the most power and responsibility?
The king
Ziggurats in Sumer are building that are
What are Large Pyramid Temples
The first people who came to America were of this decent
What is Asian
The hilltop of a city state
What is Acropolis
Because of this, people could stay in one place instead of hunting and gathering
What is domesticating animals
In the Feudal system who had the least freedom?
The peasants (farmers)
These people were held higher in ancient sumer than other societies
Who are Women
Maize
What is corn
The name of Spartan Slaves
Tigris/Euphrates, Nile, Indus, Yellow
What are the four river valleys
Who attacked the city of Rome?
The Barbarians (Germanic Tribes)
Ancient Egypt is set in this geographic area
What is the Nile River Valley
The religion of the Aztec, Inca and Mayan people
What is polytheistic
These people ran the family estates in Sparta
Who were women
What is Polytheistic
What type of things were traded on Silk Road?
Silk, spices, glass, porcelain, etc.
The kingdom in Egypt which was turbulent and filled with corruption and rebellion
What is the Middle Kingdom
These people lived in AZ, NM, CO and UT
Who are the Puebloans
The wise and trusted leader of Athens that made reforms
The highest tier of people in civilization below the kings
Who are priests and nobles
What language was spoken in Europe in the Middle Ages?
Latin, English, French
This person began ruling in the name of a male heir who was too young, wore a false beard and won over key officials after declaring themselves pharaoh
Who is Queen Hatshepsut
This civilization lived in the gulf of Mexico and are considered the first American civ.
What is the Olmec civilization
This group of people were very well educated in Athens
Who are Boys
A person who writes down things for nobles
Who are scribes
Who was the rich and generous king of Mali?
Mansa Musa
What language was spoken in the Islamic Empires?
Arabic
Payments of conquered people
What are Tributes
The most powerful Olympian, has children Ares, Aphroditie and Athena
Who is Zeus
The name for people who move around from place to place without settling
Who are Nomads
What was one Islamic invention of the Middle Ages?
The camera, universities, hospitals, soap, glasses, etc.
Ancient Israelites had a unique belief system that differed from most because they were
What is monotheistic
What is a state in the US that used to be a part of Mexico?
New Mexico, Texas, California, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona
War between Athens and other greeks who resented them. Athens gets defeated by Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War
People settled in river valleys and depended on this to have fertile land
What is flooding
Who was the first prophet and founder of Islam?
Muhammad
Gods 2 promises to Abraham
What are god chose the Israelites and the Promised Land
These people settled in the Mississippi River Valley
Who are Mississippians
Philip II son who wanted to conquer the Persian Empire
Alexander the Great