Religions & Empires
What process explains how religions spread from one culture to another?
What is cultural diffusion?
These wars were fought between Christians and Muslims over Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
This exchange spread foods, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The growth of factories and assembly lines occurred during this revolution.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This treaty ended World War I and punished Germany harshly.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Islamic learning center preserved and translated ancient knowledge.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This pope called Christians to join the Crusades.
Who was Pope Urban II?
This part of the Triangular Trade carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
As factories grew, workers formed these groups to fight for better conditions.
What are labor unions?
Germany, Italy, and Japan formed this alliance during WWII.
What are the Axis Powers?
Muslims during the Golden Age developed this branch of math using variables and equations.
What is algebra?
Medieval art often showed figures looking alike, but Renaissance art focused on this idea.
What is individualism?
During the Age of Exploration, Europeans searched for these to Asia.
What are new trade routes?
Industrialization caused the growth of cities, known as this.
What is urbanization?
This WWII invasion opened a second front in Europe.
What is D-Day?
This form of decorative Islamic writing became an important art style.
What is calligraphy?
This word means “rebirth” and describes a period focused on art and humanism.
What is the Renaissance?
Enlightenment thinkers believed governments should protect these natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This system is based on private ownership with little government control.
What is capitalism?
These two Japanese cities were hit with atomic bombs in 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This empire preserved Greco-Roman culture and created the Justinian Code.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Under feudalism, knights and serfs exchanged goods and services for this.
What are protection and land?
This document listed colonists’ complaints against King George III and declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This policy involved nations competing for raw materials and markets.
What is imperialism?
This Cold War event involved the Soviet Union blocking access to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?