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What was the system of writing developed by the ancient Egyptians?
Hieroglyphics
Where did the Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" originate?
China
What effect did the geography Of & ancient Greece have on its early development?
The mountainous terrain and islands led to the creation of independent city-states.
What is Monotheistic?
It is to believe in one God.
Who was Prophet and founder of Islam whose religious revelations became the Quran, bringing aradically monotheistic religion to Arabia and the world?
Muhammad Ibn Abdullah
What is the city in Western Arabia & where Muhammad was born, center of Islamic religion &Muslims should make a pilgrimage to at least one in their lives.
Mecca
What were the immediate effects of the Bubonic Plague?
town populations fell, serfs demand pay, shortage of workers
What was an achievement from the Golden Age of Rome?
Aqueducts and Roads
Which belief system/ religion was founded in China?
Confucianism
He was the founder of Buddhism;") the first Buddha who set forth the Four Noble Truth, The Middle Way to Nirvana, and The Eightfold Path.
Siddartha Guatma
actions in this life that decide your place in the next life.
Karma
What rodent cased the bubonic plague?
Fleas on rats
Why was the Silk Road an important part of Chinese history?
It promoted the exchange of goods and ideas between China and other parts of the world.
Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions?
Judaism and Christianity
wisdom teacher & Jewish mystic born in Bethlehem whose life, teachings, death, & resurrection gave rise to the new religion:Christianity
Jesus of Nazareth
A time period of peace and prosperity that brought great advancements in science, mathematics, technology, art, and literature
Golden Age
Who is the Renaissance artist responsible for sculpting La Pieta? He also sculpted "the David" and painted the Sistine Chapel walls and ceiling.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
a desert and was Major trade route that traded for gold and salt, created caravan routes, economic benefit for controlling desert, the camel saddle innovation and camels played a huge role in the trading?
Trade complex
In Hinduism, what is the role of reincarnation in achieving moksha?
Reincarnation allows one to work toward moksha through several lifetimes.
Which Muslim Caliphate ruled from 750 -1258 CE and, moved capital to Baghdad, had a golden age with the House of Wisdom, and who focused more on administration than conquering and had a bureaucracy that any Muslim could be a part of?
Abbasid Caliphate
The Ottoman Turks, led by Mehmed Il, ended the Byzantine empire when they invaded what city in 1453?
Constantinople
How did the printing press impacf) the Reformation?
It allowed the ideas of religious reformers to spread quickly among many people.
This water-based trade route connected to Europe, Africa, and China.; worlds richest maritime trading network and an area of rapid Muslim expansion? It was the trade route used by the Swahili City States on the East
Indian Ocean complex
What do the Ten Commandments") teach?
They guide Jews in how to worship God and treat other people.
The Ottoman Sultan responsible for conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and destroyed what remained of the Byzantine Empire
Mehmed II the conqueror