Ancient Civilizations
This was the very first civilization in the ancient world.
Mesopotamia.
Belief in one god.
Monotheistic.
A farming technique used by Incan farmers to increase available cropland in the mountains.
Terrace Farming.
Columbian Exchange.
A revolution where there was a shift to machine power and an increase in manufacturing.
Industrial Revolution.
One of the five main characteristics of a civilization.
Cities, Specialized Workers, Institutions, Record Keeping, OR Technology.
A major trade route that linked cities of the eastern Mediterranean with eastern Asia.
Silk Road.
A social, economic, and political system in Europe and Japan where independent nobles controlled their own land/military in exchange
Feudalism.
The largest number of enslaved Africans went to this part of the world during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Central and South America.
A revolution in Central America where enslaved Africans rebelled against their owners and government.
Haitian Revolution.
The first written laws.
Hammurabi's code.
Three major monotheistic religions.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
A traveling African storyteller that helped maintain oral history.
Griot.
This type of agriculture in the Americas required the most amount of labor.
Plantations.
These ideas inspired and fueled the French, Haitian, and South American revolutions.
Enlightenment ideas.
Early civilizations such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Indus Valley settled in areas near this geographical feature.
Rivers rich in agricultural resources.
The Hindu belief that your thoughts and actions impact your next life.
Karma.
Poetry was highly valued in this culture (Hint: It's one of the empires in the Americas).
Aztecs.
Zheng He (the emperor that conducted the seven treasure fleets) is from this country.
China.
This social group held the most power in colonial Latin America.
European-born Spaniards.
The reason King Hammurabi thought he had the right to create the first written laws (Hammurabi's Code).
He claimed his authority came from the gods.
One of the biggest values of Confucianism.
Education OR respecting your elders.
Increased trade and the spreading of knowledge between Europe and the Middle East was a long-term effect of this Middle Age event.
The Crusades.
These two European nations lead global exploration because they wanted to participate in the trading of luxury goods in Asia.
Spain and Portugal.
This revolutionary leader rejected the Spanish economic policies that prevented free trade in Latin America and lead many revolutions in South America.
Simon Bolivar.