Most early civilizations were geographically located
What is rivers and valleys?
100
Polis
What is a Greek city-state?
100
The center of medieval life, completely independent communities that Europeans lived on.
What is a manor?
100
The portion of the Triangular Trade route from Africa to the Americas. It was a horrific experience for African slaves, resulting in death and life long illnesses.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
Writer of the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The Indus River Valley had very advanced technologies such as
What is plumbing system?
200
Athenians' lasting legacy for the world.
What is direct democracy?
200
This caused long term tension between Christians and Muslims.
What is the Crusades?
200
The exchange of plants, goods, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
Turning point in history, new philosophers challenged absolutism and pushed for human rights and individual freedoms.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
The first codified law system
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
The spread of ideas, culture, and language to other nations or empires through war, conquest, or trade.
What is cultural diffusion?
300
King/Queen, Nobility, Knights, and Peasants
What is feudalism?
300
reasons for Europeans to seek alternative trade routes
What is the Muslims had control of land routes connecting Europe and the Middle East to Asia?
300
One of the main reasons for both the American and French Revolutions.
What is heavy taxes?
400
First written language
What is Cuneiform?
400
The TWO largest lasting impacts of the Roman and Greek empires.
What is law and government?
400
A document in which King John gave up some of his power/authority and gave it to a parliamentary body.
What is the Magna Carta?
400
percentage of indigenous populations were killed from the Europeans' exploration and colonization of the America
What is 80-90%?
400
John Locke's believed in THREE natural rights
What is life, liberty, and property?
500
Sumerian
What is the first civilization to develop a written language?
500
Battle formation created by the Greeks in which infantry or hoplites marched into battle shoulder to shoulder.
What is the phalanx?
500
The Black Plague brought these changes to Europe.
What is increase in medical research, higher wages, and decline of the feudal system?
500
The Spain crown gave the colonists the authority and right to demand tribute (taxes) and forced labor from the indigenous populations.
What is encomienda system in South America?
500
These ideals of Baron de Montesquieu's impacted our American branches of government.