Ancient Civilizations
THE SHARING AND BLENDING OF IDEAS, CUSTOMS, BELIEFS AND HABITS FROM ONE GROUP TO ANOTHER; TYPICALLY OCCURS THROUGH TRADE, MIGRATION, AND WARFARE
What is cultural diffusion?
A TYPE OF GOVERNMENT LED BY A HEREDITARY RULER, LIKE A KING, QUEEN, OR EMPEROR
What is a monarchy?
THIS WAS THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL ENTITY DURING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD
What is the Church?
THE RENAISSANCE WAS A REBIRTH OF THE IDEALS AND VALUES OF THESE TWO CLASSICAL SOCIETIES
Who are the Greeks and Romans?
THIS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL OF THE SPANISH EXPLORATION—EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN FINDING GOLD
What is spreading Catholicism?
THE EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS WERE CREATED AROUND THIS GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE
What are rivers?
A TYPE OF GOVERNMENT LED BY A DICTATOR WHO TYPICALLY GAINS AND MAINTAINS POWER USING FORCE
What is a tyranny?
THE WEST AFRICAN KINGDOMS OF GHANA, MALI, AND SONGHAI BECAME WEALTHY THROUGH THE TRADE OF THESE TWO ITEMS
What are gold and salt?
LUTHER WROTE HIS 95 THESES TO CALL OUT THIS CORRUPT CHURCH PRACTICE
What is the selling of indulgences?
THIS WAS CREATED BY THE POPE TO SETTLE A MAJOR DISPUTE BETWEEN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL CONCERNING THEIR ATTEMPTS TO BUILD TRADING EMPIRES
What is the Line of Demarcation?
THESE TWO INDIAN RELIGIONS SHARE IN THE IDEA OF BREAKING THE CYCLE OF REINCARNATION
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
THE ROMAN PRINCIPLE THAT MEANS ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW
What is the rule of law?
THIS GROUP CONQUERED MANY OTHERS TO CREATE THE LARGEST CONTIGUOUS EMPIRE AND CONTROL INTERNATIONAL TRADE ROUTEs
Who are the Mongols?
THIS INVENTION, MADE POPULAR IN EUROPE BY GUTENBERG, ALLOWED FOR NEW AND CONTROVERSIAL IDEAS TO SPREAD RAPIDLY, FUELING THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
What is the printing press with moveable type?
EUROPEAN COLONISTS IN THE AMERICAS FROM THIS COUNTRY HAD THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
What is England?
THIS EVENT CHANGED THE WAY PEOPLE LIVED—THEY DOMESTICATED PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND CREATED PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS
What is the Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution?
A TYPE OF GOVERNMENT WHERE CITIZENS ELECT OFFICIALS TO REPRESENT THEIR VOICE IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS
What is a republic?
THE OTTOMAN AND SAFAVID EMPIRES CONSTANTLY FOUGHT ABOUT THIS KEY DIFFERENCE IN THEIR SHARED RELIGION
Who should become the next caliph (leader of Islam)?
THIS REFORMATION WAS IDEOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHERS — THIS KING ONLY WANTED TO BE FREE OF THE POPE’S POWER
What is the Anglican Reformation?
THE GLOBAL EXCHANGE OF GOODS, IDEAS, PEOPLE, PLANTS, ANIMALS, AND DISEASE
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A CHINESE IDEOLOGY THAT FOCUSES ON RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS, ESPECIALLY THE ONE BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN
What is Confucianism?
FEDERALISM, WHERE EACH STATE MAINTAINS SOME INDEPENDENCE BUT WORKS TOGETHER WITH THE LARGE GROUP FOR MATTERS SUCH AS WAR, WAS INTRODUCED TO THE FOUNDERS OF THE US BY THIS GROUP
Who are the Iroquois Confederacy?
AFTER THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, PARLIAMENT BECAME SIGNIFICANTLY STRONGER DUE TO THIS DOCUMENT
What is the Magna Carta?
THIS MOVEMENT THAT GREW OUT OF THE RENAISSANCE EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF OBSERVATION & NATURAL LAWS
What is the Scientific Revolution?
THIS INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICY LED TO AN INCREASED DEMAND FOR GOLD AND SILVER FROM THE AMERICAS
What was the Ming Dynasty?