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100
This group of Native Americans relied less heavily on farming that other groups because they lived in an environment with ample fish and wildlife.
What is the Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest?
100
These individuals helped spread Christianity from the Middle East into Europe.
What were disciples and missionaries?
100
These objects provided anthropologists with the first clues about prehistoric life.
What is footprints, bones, and tools?
A researcher's socked foot provides scale for a child's footprint, made 1,500 years ago in Namibia. | Courtesy of Matthew Bennett
100
This King of Upper Egypt united the two regions of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who was Menes, or King Narmer?
Palette of King Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic, c. 3000-2920 B.C.E., slate, 2′ 1″ high (Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
100
This ancient network of trade routes was formally established during the Han Dynasty of China and linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce between 130 BCE-1453 CE.
What is The Silk Road?
100
In Ancient Rome, this group of citizens fought for equal representation in daily life and governance.
Who were the plebeians who gained the right to elect tribunes and consul members?
As the plebeians formed the majority of Rome’s citizenry, secession was a powerful weapon at their disposal and was used several times more after 494 BCE
The Secession of the Plebeians to the Sacred Mountain. (B. Barloccini / Public Domain )
200
The location of these Ancient Greek city-states made them become dependent on trade.
What is the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations?
200
The rule of this European king led to the expansion of Christianity to Western and Northern Europe
Who was Charlemagne?
Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne emperor, December 25, 800 CE.
200
This achievement helped the Incan emperor to maintain rule over widespread lands.
What is a vast network of roads built by the Inca?
200
While the Maya maintained separate and independent city-states with their own rulers, the Aztecs selected this form of government?
What is a centralized government with a king and local city-states governed by chiefs?
200
These self-sufficient communities provided an economic foundation for feudalism?
What were the manors?
200
Invasions of this group led to a blending of Muslim and Hindu customs.
What were the Mongol invasions of Tamerlane and Babur?
300
This geographic feature linked ancient Egyptian and Nubian Civilizations.
What was the Nile River?
300
This aspect of traditional African religion helped Africa's adoption of Islam and Christianity.
What is belief in a supreme being?
300
Because they were the first to make stone tools, what name did scholars bestow upon an early hominid group?
What is Homo habilis, or "handy man"?
Source from: History Notes from Video Walking with Cavemen
300
In Ancient Rome, ongoing conflict and threats of invasion made this leader's military skill appealing and paved the way to Roman Empire.
Who was Julius Caesar?
300
This reform enabled better communication among the satrapies, bolstering Darius I's bureaucracy in the Persian empire.
What is the mail system?
Darius I (548-486 BC) assumed the throne of Persia at age 28. He ruled for over 30 years and was admired for his organizational skills that were instrumental in building a more powerful Persian kingdom.
PHOTOGRAPH BY UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, GETTY
300
During the Tang and Song dynasties, this group was placed in the lowest social class reflecting the cultural influence of Confucianism.
What were the merchants?
400
The location of East African Swahili city-states on which trade route encouraged the development of an African merchant class?
What was Indian Coast Trade Routes?
400
The spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam all demonstrate the significance of which region to India?
What is Southeast Asia?
400
These Roman feats of engineering helped the empire to expand tremendously.
What were bridges and roads?
Ancient Roman roads overlaid on a modern road map of Italy
400
This African country was the only one to maintain its independence during the mad scramble for Africa.
What is Ethiopia?
400
This event changed Medieval European economy by depleting the continent's wealth and turning most people back to subsistence farming.
What was the Black Death?
IMAGE: BLACK DEATH AT TOURNAI, 1349 (SEE ALSO 33793), LE MUISIT, GILLES (1272–1352) /BIBLIOTHÈQUE ROYALE DE BELGIQUE, BRUSSELS/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES
400
Civil service, woodblock printing, and written language are cultural elements that reflect the influence of which country on Korea?
What is China?
500
Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach this area more quickly.
What is the East Indies?
Columbus reasoned that since the world is round, he could sail west to reach “the east” (the lucrative lands of India and China). That reasoning was actually sound, but the Earth is much larger than Columbus thought—large enough for him to run into two enormous continents (the “New World” of the Americas) mostly unknown to Europeans.
500
The development of the printing press technology helped aid the cause of which group of European reformers?
Who were the Protestant reformers?
500
The development of this technique in the Middle Ages emphasized the use of reason rather than faith and reflected a broader cultural trend toward secularism in Europe.
What is the Scientific Method?
1637: Descartes publishes his Discourse on the Method for Guiding One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, the source of the famous quote, "I think, therefore I am." He outlines his rules for understanding the natural world through reason and skepticism, forming the foundation of the scientific method still in use today.
500
This Ancient Greek City-State emphasized military discipline and training.
What was Sparta?
500
During the Yuan dynasty of China under Kublai Khan, economic and cultural exchange with this country increased.
What is Europe?
500
In this country, the Orthodox Church and rulers reinforced each other's power.
What is Russia?
600
These events helped increase European contact with peoples from other lands leading to an end of the Middle Ages?
What are the Crusades?
600
Criticism of the established social order and religious doctrine in the literature of the Northern Renaissance reflected a movement toward this philosophy.
What is secularism?
600
Art such as this "Lady with an Ermine" painting by Leonardo da Vinci reflects this aspect of Renaissance culture?
Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci from around 1489–1490 and one of Poland's national treasures. The portrait's subject is Cecilia Gallerani, painted at a time when she was the mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Leonardo was in the Duke's service.
What is a humanist focus on the individual?
600
A vast bureaucracy and Buddhist principles helped shape society and culture in the Mauryan empire under which leader's rule?
Who was Emperor Ashoka?
600
Control of this industry drove conflict among European colonial powers in East Asia.
What is control of the spice trade?
600
During the Reformation, this is one point on which the various Protestant sects agreed.
What is a rejection of the authority of the papacy?
A lithograph showing Martin Luther burning the papal bull of excommunication. Photo: N.Y. : Published u. printed by H. Schile
700
The native peoples of the Americas were most strongly affected by which aspects of the arrival of Europeans?
What was European conquest and disease?
700
This religion originated on the Arabian Peninsula.
What is Islam?
700
Architecture such as this demonstrates the power of which church?
What is the power of the Christian Church in Medieval Christian Europe?
The world mourned with Paris as a fire tore through the Cathedral of Notre Dame in April 2019
700
This Crusade signified the heightened power of the Pope.
What was the Albigensian Crusade?
Pope Innocent III's Crusade was significant, despite the survival of Catharism, because with it the pope began the practice of using the Crusade to combat papal enemies wherever they were found.
700
This trade system benefited European colonies in the America by providing the colonies with manufactured goods from Europe.
What was the triangular trade route system?
The colonial economy depended on international trade. American ships carried products such as lumber, tobacco, rice, and dried fish to Britain. In turn, the mother country sent textiles, and manufactured goods back to America.
700
This civilization had a rigid caste system that was based on birth.
What is Ancient India?
800
The first civilizations in Asia and Africa had this in common.
What is an organized system of government?
800
This event split the main factions of Christianity into two divisions, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. Today, they remain the two largest denominations of Christianity.
What is the Great Schism or Schism of 1054?
800
These empires used gunpowder and other military advances to come to rule such large areas.
Who were the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughal?
800
The Zhou Dynasty was the first to claim this right to govern China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven or Divine Right to Rule?
800
Gold and silver from this country gave rise to a new business class in European society during the Commercial Revolution.
What was the Americas?
